Everyone will be salted with fire.
Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it?
Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
—Mark 9.49-50
Jesus doesn’t enjoin us to become salt;
as he says in a different sermon, we already are salt.
Salt is what it is, and can’t be made more salty;
it can only lose its saltiness by being diluted.
To keep your saltiness is to be true to who you are,
to stay faithful to your hopes, your heart, your soul.
To have salt is to speak the truth when it’s hard,
to know what you trust and trust it when it’s scary.
To be salted is to stay open to the Spirit that comes to us,
that breathes in us, that burns with fire in us,
the Spirit that lives in each other person as well,
that makes us all one, which is the root of our peace.
To have salt is not to erase or dominate others
but to bring out the best in them, especially when it’s hidden.
Everyone will be salted with fire, seasoned with love—
everyone—flavored with beauty, preserved by the Spirit.
Trust that,
and live that way.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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