Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy, we pray with Psalm 103, always a source of sweet reflection on God’s mercy.
From today’s verses, this line rings out:
All my being, bless God’s holy name.
Psalm 103:1
It’s a call to make our lives a total prayer – every moment lived in and with the Presence of God.
The truth is that this is already our reality. God is present to our every moment because it is God’s Life which breathes within us.
The psalm’s call is really to our awareness – the mandate fully to realize that God is living God’s life through us.
The psalm tells us to remember that, in order to so live in us, God is continually merciful. And so God:
- pardons all our iniquities
- heals all your ills
- redeems our life from destruction
- and ultimately crowns us with kindness and compassion.
In other words, when we are open to Grace, God makes the best even of our mistakes – always allowing us repent, change, and deepen in love and mercy.
God redeems our life from every darkness
Psalm 103:3-5
and crowns us with mercy and compassion,
God fills our days with light,
renews our young enthusiasm with the eagle’s strength.
Poetry: The Presence of Love – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.
You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within;
And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart
Thro' all my Being, thro' my pulse's beat;
You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light,
Like the fair light of Dawn, or summer Eve
On rippling Stream, or cloud-reflecting Lake.
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot that made me love you.
Music: With Me Now – Hillary Stagg
Lavish Mercy 