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MONDAY, May 23 Victoria Day (Canada)
Psalm 64. The human mind and heart are a mystery.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet once dared his treacherous friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to “pluck out the heart of my mystery.” Hamlet wasn’t only speaking about his secret knowledge of his father’s death at his uncle’s hands; he was talking about his innermost thoughts and fears, the deep mystery of the soul known only to the God from whom, in the words of the old collect, “no secrets are hid.”
The rationalist and problem-solver in me wants to say that mysteries exist to be solved, like the crime in a whodunit novel. But the preacher and theologian in me want to say the opposite—that mysteries exist to be paradoxes and conundrums that tease me beyond thought, beyond reason, to the humble admission that I cannot know all there is to be known. That is certainly the case about my knowledge of human beings, whether their lives are as remote from mine as an Australian aborigine’s or as my dearest friend’s. And if that is true of what I know about the people nearest me, how much more true is it about what I know of the mystery of God?
PRAY for the Diocese of Northern California (Province VIII, USA)
Ps 56, 57, [58] * 64, 65; Wisdom 9:1, 7-18; Colossians (3:18—4:1)2-18; Luke 7:36-50
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