Proverbs 8:1-8, 19-21; 9:4b-6

Easter Vigil - Years A, B, C

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Under our desire for control and consistency is a more basic creative impulse always crying out for recognition. This wisdom and understanding is initially beyond words and comprehension—sensed and yearned for.

First, listen. In listening we find. In finding we and all are benefited. A key benefit is community which can only be sustained on the basis of a free justice. This justice beyond benefit for some over others brings a commonwealth beyond simply adding mine and yours.

Commonwealth is embodied common sense. Both are rooted in a constantly maturing community relating with other growing communities into a more whole and creation-wide relationship with one another and all beyond such a limitation.

Recognized or not, a call from beyond continues to beckon us forward. This voice can be heard, day-by-day, in burning bushes, empty tombs, and your experience.

 

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Wisdom invites friends and foe to come and feast. Understanding is not out of reach. We can yet learn. Prudence contains a measure of patience.

Here in the middle of a vision quest we find our immaturity and lay it aside.

Yes, death is real. Loss is no less real. And even reality lies nestled within reality.

So look again. Have I judged this book by its cover?

Empty tomb and empty cloth mean so much and so little.

Let’s go over this one more time. Be not afraid. Gloria in the skies and field. Dedicated blessing. Lying fallow and learning. Belovedness. Temptations, teachings, healings, one-another. More temptations at an arrest and dignity at a show trial. Death, burial, and emptiness. And here we are. Is there more to walk? What is now mine that wasn’t before?

http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2014/04/proverbs-81-8-19-21-94b-6-vigil.html