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When I gather with my ministry colleagues and one of them says something particularly wise, someone will respond with “that will preach!” I guess that in some way we are all always on the lookout for fodder for our sermons.
Recently, I was listening to an interview with the American author, James Patterson, who has written almost an entire library of suspense novels. He was asked what gets him up and writing in the morning and he said that he asks himself:
My time here is short; what can I do most beautifully?
And I went, “wow that will preach!”
We are finite beings and humanity is just a small blip on the grand cosmos. But that small blip is powerful. Perhaps the wisdom in these words relies on how we define beauty.
To Pilate and Caesar…it was power and money.
To Abraham and Sarah…it was faithfulness even in the hard times.
To Rosa Parks…it was peacefully remaining seated.
To the World Food Program…it is feeding people in places of war and natural disasters.
To the prophet Isaiah… it was caring and justice for the poor, oppressed, marginalized, and sick.
To Jesus… it was and is grace, compassion, mercy, justice, and love.
My time here is short; what can I do most beautifully?
In all those examples, we get a glimpse of the beauty of the Spirit, God’s force for beauty, moving and breathing and working in our world.
Blessings, Kathi
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