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Rita Glennon's avatar

I saw the sunrise. I heard bamboo and tubular wind chimes resounding in the breeze. I felt deeply calmed, relaxed and hopeful. And I felt, like “the little flower”, that I needed to do little things with great love.

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Rev Dr Margaret Wesley's avatar

That’s so beautiful!

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Katherine Hammer's avatar

Great sermon! Left a message!

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Di Murphy's avatar

Thank you, Margaret. Your words bring to mind John Bell’s song, “Jesus calls us here to meet him”.

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Rev Dr Margaret Wesley's avatar

I love his hymns

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Brad Rulfs's avatar

deity wants me to do.

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Brad Rulfs's avatar

I like the way you put that. It leaves options open for fresh experiences of God as well as being aware of God’s abiding presence at all times.

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Rev Dr Margaret Wesley's avatar

I take your point about my language being a bit provocative and colloquial. Of course God is always here, at work in us and in all creation. But in Epiphany season the lectionary readings draw our attention to moments when people’s eyes are dramatically opened to the reality of the presence and majesty of God. From the human perspective this feels like God turning up, but it is not God showing up out of nowhere - it is God revealed in a particular way to the sense experience of an individual

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Brad Rulfs's avatar

For me God showing up implies that God left. Perhaps God showing up in a new way sits better with me. And what do I see, hear,feel? I’d like to turn that on its head and ask, “What does God see,hear, feel?” as I work through the decision making process of finding my way forward.

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Rev Dr Margaret Wesley's avatar

I wonder how it is that you might discover what God sees, hears and feels? Is it not through your own senses (including seeing and hearing the Scriptures)?

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Brad Rulfs's avatar

Absolutely. Rather than my deity showing up and my effort is to see, hear, feel what that that

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