Month: June 2016

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Yesterday I led a funeral for a beloved church member. Today we await the birth of a grandchild. The old saint and the new, neither one in this visible world, are both rocked in the arms of God.

And so are we.

On his deathbed the gentle man was still only beginning to see the love unfurling in his life, looking so much like heaven. Being born, the child will begin to see. And we who hold the little one will also be born anew, and we will begin to see.

God, grant us each the grace to know that we are infants in your arms, angels at your gates, each day reborn, each day a new beginning, each day a passage from this world of grace into this world of grace, surrounded by infinite blessings we can’t know, only beginning to see how deeply we are loved, how deeply.

__________________ Steve Garnaas-Holmes Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net

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It feels like the end of something          but we forget the rest.

It is a door and something on the other side,

this moment a single petal of a rose unfolding.

From the doorway looking back we see you walking along

and ahead we see you walking along.

__________________ Steve Garnaas-Holmes Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net

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Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                    A man who had died was being carried out. …          And Jesus said, “Young man, I say to you, rise!”          The dead man sat up and began to speak,          and Jesus gave him to his mother.                   —from Luke 7.12-15

You don’t know what it is in you that has died and is beyond hope, something precious, that God will breathe new life into, yes, impossibly, and give back to you. You can’t know what or how or when, but you can wait with faith, you can rest yourself in the mystery that some day this will happen and you won’t be surprised.

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         Weather Report           Dawn today, or perhaps another day, as the planet comes slowly around and all things, as they do, return to God.

Deep Blessings, Pastor Steve

__________________ Steve Garnaas-Holmes Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net

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