Revelation 21:5-6, “…I am making everything
new… It is done…”
It’s been awhile since I have blogged here
at “These Ordinary Days.” How
appropriate that they are now coming to an end.
I guess this page will need an Advent facelift for the next several
weeks!
As I went to read the daily office, this
morning, I realized that I had left my Sacred Ordinary Days journal at home, so
I clicked over to the “backup” site I use to gather the daily office Scriptures
when I find myself in this predicament.
Strangely, it had already transitioned to the Year B readings, which
apparently start on Thursday. It’s
Monday. Is there no Scripture for
Monday?
Well, of course there is, but this all got
me to thinking about how miserable we (ahem… I) do transitions and also about
how this might be something of a “lame duck” week… sandwiched between
everything ordinary and extraordinary… a place where we pause to think about
how everything is over and everything is beginning again, but nothing is
actually happening right now. And since
that is pretty much exactly what these phrases from Revelation (finally found
the daily office) seem to indicate; I guess it’s true.
And yet, there is this one thing that
remains…
Psalm 117:2, “For great is his love toward
us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures
forever” (NIV).
Is love and faithfulness enough to sustain
us in times of seemingly nothing-else-ness (humor me, sometimes I have to
create new words)? I think so, but
waiting is so hard…
L.
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