June 15, 2021

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:9)

God does new things. The shopworn grooves of your life are nothing to Him, nor are the ruts that feel like cavernous walls around you. See, I am doing a new thing! God is totally capable of discontinuity. New beginnings, new chapters, new adventures. 

God is like a merrymaking holiday guide, leading you into green pastures, and a teeming glen behind a mountain that no one else knew was there. Look! The picnic is already laid out!  He is a magician who pulls rabbits out of His hat and has cards you can’t even imagine up His sleeve. 

Do not underestimate what God can and will do, and do not give up on His mischief making goodness! Did you already forget about Easter Morning?

“O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Good Friday Liturgy – BCP p. 280)