A Moment Aside for 27 July 2021

 A Moment Aside --- 27 July 2021

 

Another gem from the Celtic Christian tradition.

Here the body is tied to its function (eyes – looking, mouth - speaking, etc.) The blessing and presence of God is invoked on both. If God is present in “my head” and in “my understanding”, I am a whole person. It is the wholeness of each person that is the intent of God and God’s creative energy and work.

Too often, Christians separate the body and the spirit. The body and the material world is seen as evil while the spirit and the so-called spiritual world is good. We forget the words of God in the book of Genesis at the creation of all things:

God saw everything that he had made,

and indeed, it was very good. 

(Genesis 1:31)

With the grace of God all around us, it is possible to come back to being a whole person, the whole person God created us to be, the whole person with God in and around every part.

God be at mine end, and at my departing.