Box Hill Baptist Church
Welcome to our church community.Archive for July, 2009
24 July 2009
Fragility and Resilience.
Both seem to be true of life’s experience. That it all falls away so quickly. That it all rises up again! Recognizing the patterns of frailty and strength in the human story is that which calls us to God… to reach out to understand and commune more fully. Consider the poem by Meister Eckhart:
Led into the Desert
Consider the divine spirit in the human soul.
This spirit is not easily satisfied.
it storms the firmament
And scales the heavens
Trying to reach the Spirit that drives the heavens.
Because of this energy
Everything in the world grows green,
Flourishes,
And burst into leaf.
But the spirit is never satisfied.
It presses on
Deeper and Deeper into the vortex
Further and further into the whirlpool,
The primary source
In which the spirit has its origin.
This spirit seeks to be broken through by God.
God leads this spirit
Into a desert
Into the wilderness and solitude of the divinity
Where God is pure unity
And where God gushes up within Himself.
