God has shown strength with mighty arms:
God has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
God has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
God has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty.
—Luke 1.51-53
The leveling of hills and valleys is not
some cynical rearrangement of the bureaucracy.
No, this is an undoing of structures and systems
of power and honor, of privilege and exclusion.
The love we’re given,
the love we bear in the womb of our hearts,
undoes hierarchies,
changes worlds.
Expect the powerful to fight back.
The manger is made from the wood of the cross.
Be prepared to be light in a thick night,
a small candle in a strong wind.
Be prepared to be kind and generous in a selfish, fearful world.
Be prepared to hope in the face of cynicism and despair.
Entrust yourself to grace in a world of greed.
Don’t be surprised if even on the darkest night
a new, holy light shines.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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