July 23, 2008
Serenity
Reinhold Niebuhr’s so-called serenity prayer is really a prayer about change with peace and courage and wisdom wrapped around it.As we face change, maybe our hearts and our heads get a bit out of synch and have to play catch-up with all the new venues coming down. But they’ll regain their balance and their creative energy as before. They always do. They always have. That is the nature and endurance of the church, the rock of Jesus’s naming and choosing.It is well to remember Isaiah and others like Molly Ivins and to recall how with whatever capacities left to us we stand in their stead. We need but look to PB Katharine on the verge of an exciting and demanding new time for herself and for church women and for the church together with whom God will make all things new. It’s a damn shame. But come to think of it, it’s the same way God had to get Jesus born.Pray, then, for the resources of serenity and courage and wisdom, reach deep into them, ferret them out, praying for what we know is right, then take our good and nourishing time to help make it so. God loves us in spite of us. That’s not apt to change, but remembering and relishing in it is the way God prepares us for all the other changes she has in mind.
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