yesterday, while finishing cleaning somebody's
house (my paid work) i was feeling tired, distracted and also upset about climate change, about which i'd just heard dire statistics
on the radio. i happened to look out the window and somehow, for a moment, really "saw," very close to the house, a tall, beautiful pine tree, which i understood as the cross at the heart of our world as it really is now. i felt collected out of the dusty, sleepy hour, to recommit myself to following jesus on the path of social justice and prayer, by letting what i can gather of the truths of his amazing grace and the truths about climate change, meet and mingle in my heart, as a prelude to action with others, that we might unfold new ways, with god's help, to help heal the planet and all precious circles of life there-on. that's my wordy way of saying – watch out! sometimes the journey can find you where you least expect to be found, and require you to do what you may not feel like doing. i'm practicing remembering how the blessed promise is so wonderfully there for us as it was for mary – that if we can just get to saying yes to whatever is asked of us, we will definitely be given all the amazing gifts and friends we need, along the way.