DO NOT!!!
A Reflection on the Sunday, May 18th , lectionary reading from
John 14.
“Do NOT let
your hearts be troubled!”
Strange
words. In this world of disappointments
and fears, of circumstances beyond our control, how is it that we have power
over the trouble that would crash over our hearts, wave-like, sometimes tsunami,
sometimes persistent overwhelming pounding?
How can we NOT let our hearts be troubled?
But, these
words come from one in the midst of ocean-deep disappointments and capillary
bursting anxiety. This one is under
attack. This one leans over the edge of
a final, the deepest trouble.
Or, does he?
?
?
?
Or, do we?
?
?
?
Might it be that
our spiritual proximity to the one who says, “Do not let your hearts be troubled”
provides the vision, the way of thinking, the faith, THE WAY to a deeper ocean
where waves crash on the surface but calm typifies the deep?
Does he?
?
?
?
Saints and
mystics and grandmothers and hymn writers and cross carriers sing with him, “Yes,
it is well, it is well with my soul.”
In the
storms many whisper with him, “Our Father…”
Could it be
that we resist just LETTING trouble have its way with our hearts when we join
him in this deep place?
