Melting Away
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Spring Melt is A’coming.
Will we melt away,
or melt greed and violence away
with kindness?
Isaiah 45:12
I made the earth, and created humankind upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
James 1:17
Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Words of Grace For Today
While God made earth in six days and rested on the seventh (as the song goes), and God in that time created all life on earth including us humans, it’s taken us about 200 years to run the earth from sustainable into the ground so that the future looks bleak indeed, bleak indeed.
The only thing to do, since we cannot take on the ‘repair job’ needed by ourselves if in any way at all, is to be kind, even kinder, merciful and compassionate, so that others become that as well.
Life without kindness, mercy, and compassion is always a competition to get more, a greed race to the bottom of hell. While we can hardly engender enough kindness, mercy, and compassion to change how humanity as a whole engages in life now or in the next 200 years (if we have that much time left), we can create small pockets of kindness, mercy, and compassion with our families and friends, and if we are lucky to move about in society, we may also create a wake of kindness, mercy, and compassion wherever we go.
For that God created the earth and us humans on it.
These acts are not of our own doing. We can rise to the occasion day after day only when God works through us, spreading light into us and through us to the earth and life on it around us.
Shine … Shine this day … Shine this day with kindness, mercy, and compassion.
(Why not? It’s a whole lot more rewarding than greed’s death race!)