Incarnation Place Blog

Psalm 139: 1-3

O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.

I love these words. They teach me that I am not alone. They show me that I am seen, that I am loved just as I am. They heal my desire to be someone else, somewhere else. Now what?

Do you know that you are not alone? Do you long to be seen, known, loved just as you are? What if you are? What holds you back from embracing the fullness of life?

Psalm 8: 3-5

When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers, 

the moon and the stars, 

which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

I am in awe of Mother Earth — Divine Presence overflowing from Her highest heavens to deepest seas.  And here we are, human beings – perfect in our creation, with power to choose how we shall live.

How will we use our creation today? How will we treat ourselves and others? May we remember of Whom we are made, to Whom we belong.

“At the beginning of each day,

after we open our eyes to receive

the light of that day,

As we listen to the voices and sounds

that surround us,

We must resolve to treat each hour

as the rarest of gifts…”

Always We Begin Again by John McQuiston II