Human and divine

Human beings gather in the presence of the holy, coming to seek forgiveness for the weakness we know only too well. Here we listen in the silence for words of wisdom, for inspiration to help us live the lives we have been entrusted with, and to live them to the full. Here we speak prayers, verbal offerings and entreaties enunciated on behalf of others and for our own good. Here we receive gifts freely given ... gifts which are far too precious to ever be squandered, but gifts which are too often ignored by too many. Here the feeble words of human voices join to praise the Author of all, to entrust cares of various kinds to His loving embrace and to speak our own vibrating (or silent) amen.

Here the tender love of the One who has created us, welcomes us and celebrates because we have come home. Here simple gifts prepared by human hands are transformed by divine hands, into the food of eternal life, and returned to us as nourishment for our souls.

Here wounded hearts are restored to wholeness, the unforgiven discover words of comfort and peace, the searching find answers and the lost and forgotten find a welcome that surpasses every desire.

When the human and divine meet, there is great love, there is great celebration, there is great love. Any response on our part seems feeble, but any response is welcome, not as a requisite, but as a response spoken and accepted as a gesture of comprehension between two worlds.