Monday, December 1, 2008

Monday, December 1

Is 2:1-5/Mt 8:5-11

Come, let us climb the Lord’s mountain...that he may instruct us in his ways. Is. 2

“All nations shall stream toward this mountain,” Isaiah says. Humanity, each one of us, is on the way, spiraling up “the highest mountain, raised above the hills.” Though history may seem to be heading in the opposite direction, the shadowed valleys of our time could be showing us that we need a balancing view, the aerial outlook.

Imagination can help us realize that the ancient and universal sacred mountain can be as alive within us as the earthen Fuji, Everest, Kilimanjaro or Shasta. Mountain shrouds in cloud, erupts as volcano, gives birth to springs and the beginnings of great rivers.

Let’s stop for a moment. Feel Mountain in the body. Mists, wildflowers, forests, glaciers, rock are there for us to explore. Let’s climb, and watch others climb too. When we meet at the top, each of us will have a unique perspective of what we see in the four directions around us. What swords might we be carrying as a defense against renewed life? If they were melted into a plowshares, they would be instruments for planting, for bringing forth new views and possibilities.

Mantra: Imagine possibilities.

Clare Morris