Today is about more than hearts and flowers. Everybody knows it’s crunch time for the U.S.A. When things get really bad, the American people have a way of getting back to basics. The basics start with the foundational underpinnings of our Nation. Ronald Reagan got it right! Others, it seems, don’t like the founding fundamentals They hope for changes that will create an America no one will recognize as America. Texas Rainmaker and the Anchoress spell it out.
Reagan and Obama in their own words.
What a man will do for a little love.
Are you ready for today? Scads of you probably aren’t, and will be scurrying around for those quick and easy Valentine bouquets at the supermarket. As a woman, I can tell you, they work just fine. This year buying them will also give the economy some much needed love $$$$.
Remembering last year, still conjures up a smile and warm fuzzies. It wasn’t a valentine that came my way, but a sight that cheered many. A young man in a tuxedo sang love songs, his music blasting into the parking lot, as he sold Valentine bouquets out of a van. Mostly men helped him do a bang-up business. The women hung around or were smiling as they passed. Ah, the human spirit. Ah, the entrepreneurial spirit. Hope I spot him again today. Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!
Living with a charged bit of Holy Scripture playing in the background of my day sets me up for some animated discussions in my car, at the sink, wherever my day may take me. Occasionally the conversation turns to Presence. How we hunger for this Presence, this awareness of God, even though we may be flying in all directions. Perhaps, the more the activity, the more the hunger. It’s akin to searching for the car keys. We begin thinking we know where to find them. As they remain hidden, our pursuit turns to frustration and then to frenzy. Relief comes only when we hold the keys in our hot little hands.
What does searching for car keys have to do with Lexio Divina, ruminating on Holy Scripture? It’s simply that we are always on the go. Getting to our destination depends on something as ordinary and necessary as the car keys. Holy Scripture is such a key, however, it is not inanimate but living and active. When the Word, Lexio, comes to fruition, it is the listener who becomes the Word, in essence, and so reaches his destination.
DivineOffice.org started my day off singingly. Their Morning Prayer includes a hymn that will probably be with me throughout today.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of Heav’n and earth
How can I keep from singing?
It’s wonderful to know that while I was asleep, the Church was still at prayer joined by a “Cloud of Witnesses”. To my Cloud of Witnesses, I say, “Good morning, Everybody!”
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12: 1
I guess you all are now a part of my cloud.
Be Holy! 