“I thought I felt a little cool breeze come through. What shall we do? Don’t it feel cold in here to you? Turn up the heat. Warm up your feet.” Loving, patient, and warm words take the chill out of the air between us – from the top of our heads to the tip of our toes.
“Turn on the light, nothing seems right.” It’s up to me to turn to the light that shines within, even when things seem dark. When I look with love, I let the light come on again.
“Come back again, I’ll make you laugh, just wait and see. It’s all right. Day breaks the night.” Our inner Voice tells us that the sun always comes up again. It feels so right to know that we can get past the tears and laugh again.
“What’s done is past. Love’s all that lasts.” When it feels “cold in here,” we shall remember that love is the “good kind” of global warming.
Responsive Reading for Sunday, November 10
(How, in the “dark night of the soul,” when we may feel disappointed, lonely, and sort of down, we finally realize that we can’t go on this way; this is like when the coldness we have felt in relationships, in mind and heart, starts to warm up. David, the Psalmist, sang about this, because he felt it, too.)
“The LORD takes pleasure in . . . those who await his faithful care . . . . Offer praise to your God . . . . The LORD sends a command to earth; his word runs swiftly! Thus snow is spread like wool, frost is scattered like ash. Hail is dispersed like crumbs; before such cold the waters freeze. Again he sends his word and they melt” (Psalm 147:147:11-18).
“I thought I felt a little cool breeze come through. What shall we do? Don’t it feel cold in here to you? Turn up the heat. Warm up your feet.” Loving, patient, and warm words take the chill out of the air between us – from the top of our heads to the tip of our toes.
“How long must I carry sorrow in my soul, grief in my heat, day after day? . . . . Look upon me, answer me, LORD, my God! Give light to my eyes . . . . Grant in my heart joy in your help, that I may sing of the LORD, ‘How good our God has been to me!’” (Psalm 13).
“Turn on the light, nothing seems right.” It’s up to me to turn to the light that shines within, even when things seem dark. When I look with love, I let the light come on again.
“Our mouths were filled with laughter . . . The LORD has done great things for us: Oh, how happy we were! . . . . Those who sow in tears will reap with cries of joy. Those who go forth weeping carrying sacks of seed, Will return with cries of joy, carrying their bundled sheaves” (Psalm 126).
“Come back again, I’ll make you laugh, just wait and see. It’s all right. Day breaks the night.” Our inner Voice tells us that the sun always comes up again. It feels so right to know that we can get past the tears and laugh again.
“Bless the LORD, my soul; all my being . . . . Do not forget all the gifts of God, Who . . . heals all our ills . . . . surrounds you with love and compassion . . . . the LORD’s love is forever” (Psalm 103).
“What’s done is past. Love’s all that lasts.” When it feels “cold in here,” we shall remember that love is the “good kind” of global warming.