Wednesday Morning

I am grateful for the self-givingness of Spirit.

God gives itself continually, instant by instant, to its creation.  What we are made of is what God makes us with: Godstuff.  We are no more separate from God than the rays of sunlight are separate from their Sun.  They are not all of the Sun, but all of what they are is Sun.  Likewise, all exists within and through God.  There is no thought within God of withholding itself, its bounty, or its love from its creation; there is only giving and giving and giving.  Whether it is by grace or by merit we are the constant recipients of the self-givingness of God. 

"So God created man in His own image"

And we see around us the proofs of this replication.  When we are at our finest, when we express that within us which is our best, our Godling-ness, we too are self-giving.  We share our abundance with those who are in need; we share our gifts with those who will make use of them; we share our joy and our laughter and do not think to reserve them to ourselves.  At these times we come closest to our God-nature; we act in love for creation around us and give and give and give.

And so I am grateful for the self-givingness of Spirit, and the expression of that givingness as the generosity of my fellows. 

In gratitude.