“Our love should reach as widely across all space, and should be as equally distributed in every portion of it, as is the very light of the sun.christ has been us to attain the perfection of our heavenly Father by imitating his indiscriminant bestowal of light.”
-Simone Weil
Been quiet around here lately… This happens in November, which I’m trying to just accept (and see what might be here to appreciate).
In the meantime…
Revisiting a year hence what it means to be named–to be “sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever.”
“22 ‘Blessed are you when people… cast out your name as evil because of the Son of Man… 26‘Woe to you when all men speak well of you.” (Luke 6:22, 26; NKJV)
Today, the celebration of All Saints’ Day, is a moment to consider our baptism. In some of the services today, babies will come to be baptized, and when they are, their families will be told, “Name this child!” My own middle name is for my great-grandmother, who died in May of this year; I think of her especially on this celebration of All Saints’ Day, as many of us remember people who have died in the last year who were holy beacons of Jesus’ love. I’ve noticed since moving to the South that down here, many more people name their children after family members. I even know a family who boasts something like seven generations straight of women…
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“You are diminishing everything I’ve done for you, believing it is some kind of competition.”
Have you seen the new wave of “tidying” crashing over the internets? Continue reading
hope of things not seen 