As I wrote this little interlude to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries in our little community, I was reminded of Zephaniah 3:17 (NLT); “For the LORD your God (the I am that I am or Yahweh) is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.” Parentheses are mine.
Now THAT is something to get excited about! For all my wonderful, sweet, misguided, judgmental Christian friends who live in guilt and who love to shame others, there is incredible joy and freedom in this revelation from the prophet Zephaniah. GOD, the Great Spirit, Presence, Being, the Light of the world, the I am that I am, the creator of the universe LOVES you and delights in you.
I wanted to capture in this tiny snippet of music the feeling of dancing and joy and delight. God delights in us. He is not shaming us, guilting us, berating us, or looking for us to stumble or fall. He is making up joyful songs about us, singing over us, laughing with us, and celebrating us! THIS is the GOOD NEWS that the first disciples understood. God says we are good (Genesis 1)! The kingdom of heaven is in our midst, the universal Christ is everywhere and in us, too.
Can you find Christ in everyone and everything? That is our call. We do that by being present now, not worrying about the past or the future. We are called to be now. And in that stillness of being, we find that Christ is in us, through us, for us, with us, and in every particle of the universe. Nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in the Christ.
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