This past Saturday's Upper Room Daily Reflection:
PEACEMAKERS ARE THOSE who see that the world and its people are broken but also hold a dream, a vision, that God can and does reach out to heal our world. And God does it through the acts of those who live by the values of this new kingdom where God’s will is being done.
- Mary Lou Redding, The Power of a Focused Heart
Today’s Scripture Reading
“In the last days,” God says, “I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.”
- Acts 2:17, NIV
During our spiritual formation seminar this past Friday, before we walked a labyrinth at a church in Dupont Circle, we read the lectionary readings for this Sunday, which included this passage from Acts. I came across this passage when Katie and I were first looking at inspiration for bumper stickers in February-ish - and then it came back to me in the lectionary readings, and now again in Saturday's Upper Room. I think this is one of my new favorite scriptures - I want to prophesy, to see visions, to dream dreams - I think these things are essential to feeding our souls, to bringing into reality a new kingdom (whatever that means) - we must create, and re-create, envision, and re-envision, as time passes, things change, as history haunts us and blesses us, as new history enfolds, new light is shed upon the past, new revelations are discovered for the way the future could be, as we are present to this very moment. It's all in process - the past, the present, the future - and we have to continually find ways to touch every part of it that we can.
I hope to eventually piece together all these little thoughts, anecdotes, quotes, ideas, questions, and meddlings that I've been throwing around - on ideas of brokenness, sin, new kingdom, etc. But in the meantime, this is what you get.
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