Defiled
Saturday, March 29, 2025
All Creation Holy and Defiled
All Is Holy,
All Of It,
Wonders And All
Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him!
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Mark 11:17
He was teaching and saying, ‘Is it not written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations”? But you have made it a den of robbers.’
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Words of Grace for Today –
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So often we think of God as being there,
over there,
in that place,
that one holy place,
or one of many holy places.
Like churches, Temples, etc.
We make rules of how we are to behave in those special, holy places.
Good rules and traditions of hallowed places of prayer, worship, singing, giving thanks, feasting, welcoming all and sharing with everyone.
Which frees us to behave otherwise in all our places.
And that we are so good at that even in those special hallowed places we have behaved horrendously.
But!
God is everywhere in all creation.
All our places are first and foremost God’s places.
Our behaviour in ‘holy places’ as well as everywhere, should be governed by our following Jesus example, and the example of many, many saints who have gone before us, and who walk among us even today.
Reverence, prayers of gratitude, prayers of intercession, and acts of selfless love, acts of justice, acts of bringing equality to all.
Keeping God’s hallowed places holy, means keeping all creation holy, us included.