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SUNDAY, June 7 Trinity Sunday
Isaiah 6:1-8. ...the whole earth is full of his glory.
I write on my porch overlooking explosions of beach plum blossoms, azalea, and little Narragansett Bay. Air rich with peony and lilac stirs leaves to gentle dance. All around a myriad of unseen heavenly hosts (the birds), unable to keep still, sing "Holy, holy, holy." Truly the whole earth is full of God's glory, today, here.
But what of other portions of the earth? Where, for instance, is God's glory in prison? In Matthew 25:36, Jesus says, "I was in prison and you visited me."
These are the words that brought me to prison where I met my prayer partner Gloria. An uneducated black woman from a shack in Alabama, Gloria, preferring work (for minimal pay) to more lucrative welfare, put her own three children and the three orphaned children of her sister through high school and college. Gloria is a woman of integrity and strong faith, from whom God's love visibly radiates.
God's creation is glorious, but human beings, made in his image, are God's crowning glory, and it is often to our unsavory, sinful neighbors that we must look if we are to see it.
PRAY for the Diocese of Kushtia (Bangladesh)
Ps 29 or Canticle 2 or 13; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17
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