Wild Woman, Wild God

Psalm 34



Turn your face to the Wild God!



I would do well to remind myself every day that God is "wild," uncontrollable beyond my understanding and it is I who makes God small. With all my little schemes and selfish plans, I grab God, yank him from his immensity and stuff him into my tiny Kate-sized box, like a jack-in-the-box monkey holding cymbals who will pop out kind-of-unexpectedly-but-still-reliably and jump in to fix my screw-ups.

How much more wonderful is God than I mold him to be? How awesome and powerful? How loving beyond what we can imagine? It is so very hard to find God in our world sometimes...often. There is so much evil, so much suffering. Is it maybe, just maybe, possible that God is bigger that all of that? Bigger than war, hunger, violence? We live in the world, but God is not of this world. He is bigger than sickness and death. That is a hard pill to swallow...but it's true. The reason I know it's true is not just because the Bible says so, although it does. I know it is true because I have seen with my own eyes the power of Love (God) triumph over evil, death, and misery. Thank you, God, for being Bigger Than All Of Us!



The one who pours is wilder than we ever become drinking,

Wilder than wine,

The One who fills to the rim

and leaves to live in absence with a toast:

Go home. There is nothing for you here.

A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean.

Be a pearl without a shell, a mindful flooding,

a candle turned to moth,

head become empty jar,

bird settling nest,

love lived.



Prayer: Fill me to overflowing with Love this day and all days...

Thought for the day: Looking to God can turn problems into opportunities.



(From the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church Advent Devotional)