Ritual Action
The words of Jesus we highlight this week from the healing story are
“follow me and let the dead bury their own dead.” These may seem like harsh words.
And yet we hear Jesus’ urgency.
Now is the time to move, no matter how difficult, we cannot wait. What is past is past. There is brokenness and there are casualties in its wake. But we can move forward. We can make changes.
We can face storms because we are a people led by the Healer, the Calm-in-the-Storm who can offer us faith in the midst of fear.
And so this week for our symbolic ritual action, I invite you to restore some beauty by adding to the beauty of our glass pieces. Do you have some thin craft wire? You might wrap some of that wire around one of your pieces of beach glass, creating a pendant that can be hung in a window or as a necklace, a constant reminder of our role as those who must “take care,” must care for and contribute to, rather than diminish, the beauty of this earth.
This week the reaction of the crowd in the story is amazement at Jesus’ connection to the cosmic forces of wind and wave. As scientists now try to teach us, all things are connected. We are part and parcel of all creation. Rather than dominion, we are to be a-tuned to all around us. We see the cry of creation in awakened natural disasters and we must heed the call not to hide in fear, but to work for healing.
Let us put our minds to imagining how we can learn about contributing to the beauty and healing of our environment.
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