UNSEEN REALITY

It is too dark for me to see outside but I like to leave a light on for those who may pass by.

Too late to play in the leaves some one came and raked them up in these neat piles. As children it was the piles that were so tempting!

Our newspapers and radio and T.V. try to reveal what is happening in our world and we see and hear about tragedy and evil yet there is much that is hidden; even when something is filmed. I question myself about what I really want to know because I can do so little about it.

I saw a title of a book from years ago called "Things Unseen". Now that book has been on my bookcase shelf for years yet all of a sudden it awoke new thoughts in me. I took it down and opened it at chapter 8; and I quote a few lines here.

"Helen Keller, blind, and deaf, and mute, learned through the patient and loving guidance of Anne Sullivan to communicate, first through touch and then through speech. [this is such an amazing story] When Anne first tried to teach her about God, Helen said, "I already know about Him-I just don't know His Name."

How can we name what through instinct and moments of holy joy we experience as the presence of God. He is bigger than our words and greater than our imagination, more beautiful than all of creation and more mysterious and powerful than a thunder storm that comes out of nowhere and all of a sudden we see the lightning.

Yes there is much in this world that we cannot see. We cannot see the beginning of creation although we try to puzzle it out. We cannot see the sun behind the dark clouds and we cannot see our future. We make plans and as the old saying goes the "gods" laugh. We want to blame this strange God for our pain and suffering; even though we know that suffering can make us stronger.

We often do not see the pain a careless word can inflict on a sensitive person.

Into a world much like ours a baby was born. A world of cruelty, wars. poverty and injustice all that caused great suffering. I love the Christmas story it is full of truth and beauty. Many babies are born in poor conditions into a world not ready to receive them. Many babies have been born and even their existences questioned. By those who carried them or by themselves later in life. Jesus was born and held in the loving arms of his mother as Joseph proud and strong knew he would be asked to protect this little family. Did shepherds come, did kings come?

I like to believe they did. But for certain angels seen or unseen sang over them.

The Glory of Love bursting forth to bring new hope and greater love and to allow us to see God through the eyes of Jesus. He taught us all the lessons of life we need to follow because he could see and hear Father God talking and speaking into his life and he knew his mission was to share the unseen love and the healing presence that surrounds us all!