Meditation for June, 2007

It is good to wait in silence for the greeting of God. Lamentations 3:26 Psalm 84: 1 – 4

I have been reading An Infinity of Little Hours a book about the Carthusians by Nancy Klein Maguire. As I read this book, the above quotation from the book of Lamentations jumped out at me.

So often, one isn’t waiting for anything, in silence or otherwise. In this case, I was just sitting on the porch reading, enjoying my book, not particularly waiting for God or some holy message. I was just being myself and God just appeared in that beautiful translation of the verse from Lamentations, It is good to wait in silence for the greeting of God.

God greeted me in that little verse—jumped into my life and thoughts. God, of course, is always in our lives but, every now and again, God gives us a surprise greeting, reminding us of the Divine Presence always with us, here and now, as the Carthusians say. It is like a little kiss from the Beloved. God kisses us because God loves us and desires to be with us in every moment; God greets us with little surprises for us to discover and enjoy, surprises that remind us of the Divine presence.

We do not know the hour that God will surprise us with a little love note—a greeting, nor the place that we will find it. We must always be on the look-out for God’s surprises and little gifts for which we have not asked and, when they come, we should enjoy them to the fullest and give God thanks for the gift, the greeting, or the kiss.

In that verse, I was brought back to myself; brought back to the knowledge that I am one with God—one with the Divine. I live within God and God lives within me. It is not like living in a bubble but like dwelling within the rarefied air of the Holy Spirit. I live in this sanctified air and am made fully alive by the breath of the Holy Spirit.

I move within this Holy Breath as if I am moving and singing in harmony with God’s Holy Music. I sing and dance and make melody with and in the Holy Music of Divine Spirit’s love. Within the Holy Spirit I live and move and have my being and, apart from the Holy Spirit, my being is not fully all it can be. When I allow myself to be in the Holy Spirit, at one with the Holy Spirit, move with the Holy Spirit, then I am all I can be. I listen to the melody of the Holy Spirit and make harmony with that melody.

I live and breathe with and in the Holy Spirit, becoming fully alive within the Divine. I am one with the Divine; I live and move and have my being in and through the Holy Spirit; my spirit grows, matures, and is sanctified within the Divine Holy Being. I become a full blossom of praise. I sing and move and blossom within that praise to God.
Glory to God; Praise to God; Blessed be God. Amen.

 © Judith Lawrence, June 2007

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