THANKSGIVING DAY

I'm finally back after missing some days. I apologize for my lack of posts as I had said I would do. It certainly has nothing to do with my being thankful every day. I hope I can always be thankful for God's goodness, grace, mercy, love and just for who He is. I am so thankful that God has made me part of His family and His Kingdom. I'm thankful for the hope God has given us in raising Jesus from the dead and seating Him at the Father's right hand from whence He rules and from whence He will come again. I will never let go of that promise and that hope.

Today I want to share a meditation written by Laurie Oswald Robinson which I read a couple of days ago and which I thought was so very good. Laurie writes as a preface to the devotional, "There is a term in the Celtic spiritual tradition called 'thin places,' where the spiritual and the natural world intersect. It's a place where it's possible to touch and be touched by God and to experience a deep sense of God's presence in our everyday world."

THIN PLACES

There is a place where the lonely

who have lived in a land of deep darkness

see a great light.

It is a place where blue-black sleep of fear

flutters open to the orange-fuschia eyes of dawn

and a new sight.

It is the place where estranged lovers and friends

decide that time is too short

to fight.

It is the place where a son

touches his troubled family

with peace and might.

It is a place where the throne of power

reigns with justice

and makes wrongs right.

It is a place where the Wonderful Counselor,

Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace

brings morning out of night.

-Laurie Oswald Robinson

Reprinted by permission from Now It Springs Up by Carol Duerksen, Michele Hershberger, and Laurie Oswald Robinson. Published by WillowSpring Downs, email willowspringdowns@juno.com -Devotional for November 25, page 414