Here I am to worship,
Here I am to bow down,
Here I am to say that You’re my God
You’re altogether lovely
All together worthy,
All together wonderful to meLyrics from Here I Am to Worship by Tim Hughs
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Morning Meditation
Who Do You Worship?
Can’t say it any better than Mel Gibson, Tim Hughes and Jim Caviezel:
The Borg: Master, Meister, Mind
Is he Borg? He is the Borg Master, and the Borg is on the move. It is hungry and ambitious, and knows no benevolent God of love and limits. By edict, it steals the inclination to Virtue, usurping the role of conscience. Borg Master, and no other, proclaims right limits and no limits. He declares who has a right to being and how to be. He looses the license of pride and greed into his pot of promises. He stirs his brew with class hatred and malcontention. Where there was the reign of virtue, decency, morality, there is enthroned a sceptered Specter; the One, the Borg Mind ruling a “no people – no voice.” The Borg Meister feeding on our fears, our frenzy and our fetuses.
The Borg Master contemplating and worshiping himself along with the adoring, mindless, masses. Everything becomes his; his hope, his audaciousness, his government, his plan! Your life is his to manipulate, as are your morals and your dreams. What you have will be his in the end. He covets your freedom and your laughter. He is building a State of being and a state of living in which you are a nobody, a number. Have no doubt; you, my dear cog, will be assimilated into the Borg.
Borg Mind Master wants your soul. He can taste it. He nibbles at your conscience. Resistance stirs his rhetoric, as word upon word, worms beneath your reason, reconstructing the underpinning of your logic, and your creed. Winning your vote, he has procured your serfdom. Licking his fingers, how delicious your servitude!
Who’s the Leper Now?
The Leper, who comes to Jesus in today’s Gospel (Mark 1:40-45,) is often seen as an embodiment of those who are the “untouchables” of our society (the poor, the weak, the unwed mother, the addict.) The Leper, in another view, is one who is “outside the camp”. The leper is the one cut off from worship and cut off from community.
In the United States today, the Leper is 75% of those who call themselves Catholic, yet no longer celebrate Mass or practice their Faith. No matter the reason that they left the Church (disbelief, anger, lifestyle, boredom), they are now “outside the camp.”
The tragedy is that our worship, while directed to God, has an effect on us. Worship orders the one who worships. Worship grounds the worshiper once again in the Truth of Who it is he worships. It prepares a man for battle, so to speak. “Happy the people that know the joyful shout!” (Psalm 89:16) Without worship, the World becomes the voice that lies to him, tempts him and in the end may even conquer him.
The poor and the weak are in the Lord’s camp. The true outsider is one Jesus calls home. “I do will it. Be made clean.” (Mark 1:41)