December 22nd - Reflection

Reading
Micah 4:1-5 (NRSV)
A promise of peace

In days to come
the mountain of the Lord's house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be raised up above the hills.
Peoples shall stream to it,
and many nations shall come and say:
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths."
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more;
but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees,
and no one shall make them afraid;
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

For all the peoples walk,
each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

Reflection
Some day I see a journey that we will all take. All who are Children of God. Multitudes of people from all over. People alive and those who have died, all making this journey together. People drawn by a great light to a holy hill. As we walk together towards that light, coming from all directions, and we approach the light drawing closer and closer to the light and to each other on the journey; we will set aside all of our differences, we will set aside all of our pride, we will set aside all of our earthly possessions, we will set aside all pride and join our hands together in love.

With hands joined in a love that we don't even fully understand, a unifying love beyond human comprehension, we draw closer and closer to the light and that hill. On that hill are three crosses. And at the foot of the cross, hand-in-hand with one another, we will kneel and slowly raise our eyes and witness the source of the Light, the source of the Great Love...and we will see Jesus.

United as One at the foot of those three crosses in the splendor of the Light of Love we will all share in a new communion. A new communion and a new beginning. We will share individually in the Light and Love of Christ and we will share as a melded unit of One in the Light and Love of Christ.

Jesus has come to us, individually and corporately. And we will walk in Christ on a new journey, forever and ever.

Someday, I see a journey we will take, all the Children of God. A journey we will take, all because of a journey God first took, through Jesus Christ our Savior.

Thanks be to God!

Prayer
Lord, thanks for the journey You have taken. I look forward to our journey this day and that journey together to come. ---Amen