Episode 33: April 10 - And I Saw God

There are moments

—how can I speak of this?—

there are moments

too big to talk about

too big for words

too big to explain.

To speak of it

is to reduce it

to size:

that which has no

limits.

To put it into

words

is to put it into

a box:

that which cannot be

contained.

There are moments when

the unknowable

the unseeable

the untouchable

touches us, and

we see

we know

we experience

the infinite

in a finite

moment.

How can we speak of it?

How can we explain it?

How can we . . . ?

We cannot.  And yet . . .

how can we NOT

speak of it?

Episode 32: April 9 - Review

O.K.  Here’s where we have come so far.

1.  Life is a mystery.  (We searched ourselves for understanding, and journeyed through the wilderness.)

2.  God is a deeper mystery.  (We contemplated the unseen Mystery, and seeing the Mystery in Jesus.)

3.  The key is love (to understanding the mystery of life and the Mystery of God.)

4.  You have received a great gift (the love of God) and it is in your hands to pass along.

Now, what do we do?

Yes that’s the question. 

Always.

We asked it on Ash Wednesday.

Remember?

Dust and breath;

matter and spirit.

That’s who we are.

And how do we live?

            Dust and breath?

            Matter and spirit?

Answering that question

is your assignment

for the rest of your life

(as it always has been.)

Next week we’ll look at a few examples.  Not that they will answer the question,

but they will be something to consider.

Episode 31: April 8 - Spiraling Along

As was said:

You participate in a spiral

of people reaching out

to ever increasing numbers.

There is also a spiral within

you.

Because

the more you are in union with God,

the more you can love with the love of Christ.

And

the more you love with the love of Christ,

the more you grow in union with God

Thus are you able to know

“the riches of the glory of this mystery,

which is Christ in you,

the hope of glory.                                             (Colossians 1:27)

Jesus

(according to John

or was it John putting words in Jesus mouth?)

also liked to talk in circles.

“They who have my commandments and keep them

are those who love me,

and those who love me will be loved by my Father

and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”        (John 14:21)

“Those who love me

will keep my word

And my Father will love them

and my Father will come to them,

and we will make our home with them.”                    (John 14:23)

Get into that circle.

It’s a good place to be.

And keep spiraling along.

Episode 30: April 7 - Keep Up The Good Work

Faith or works.  Works or faith.

It’s an ancient debate.

Here’s the point:

If you don’t have faith

that you are loved by God through grace

then you get caught up

in trying to earn God’s love

by proving you are worthy

through good works that you do.

If you know by faith

that you are already loved by God

then you are

freed/empowered/exuberant

to do good works

as an expression of your faith and love.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works.”                                                   (Ephesians 2:8-9)

(Good works don’t enable God to love us.)

“For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.”                                             (Ephesians 2:10)

(God’s love enables us to do good works.)

So keep it up.

Episode 29: April 6 - You Can't Do It Alone

Here’s why

you can’t do it alone.

John said:

If you are going to

love as Jesus loved,

you have to be in union with God.

If you are going to be in union with God,

you have to know Jesus

and love as he loved.

That’s circular.

How do you

step into that circle?

It happens

when your life is touched

by someone

whose life has been touched

by the love of Christ.

First Jesus loved the disciples.

Only then could he say to them,

“Love one another as I have loved you.”

And they were so filled with that love

that they could love others.

And they could write it all down

so they could touch other lives

including yours.

And people around you

were so filled with that love

that they could tell you about it

and touch your life with it

and open the circle for you to step it.

And so it moves on

now not so much as a circle

but more like a spiral.

in which you participate

being loved

and loving others.

Keep up the good work.

Episode 28: April 5 - As Jesus Loved You

When Jesus said,

"Love one another as I have loved you,"                           (Jn 13:34)

he was saying that

what Christ is to you,

you are to be to other people.

You are to be

(as Martin Luther said)

a little Christ to other people.

You are to be one in whom the mystery is revealed. 

You are to be one who loves people so much that their fear is overcome. 

You are to be one who loves people in such a way that they can accept the mystery,

embrace it as Jesus did, and find life. 

You are to be one who,

when you love somebody,

they know God loves them.

Is that what it means to be a Christian?

Remember when you signed up?

That was in the contract.

It was?  Oh boy.

Can we review those things again?

Episode 27: April 4 - God Can Be Seen

What?  God can be seen?

John said, “No one has ever seen God.”

Remember that?

John also said

“Whoever has seen (Jesus) has seen the Father.”           (John 14:9)

Remember that?

Then John went one step further.

“No one has ever seen God,

but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and God’s love is [seen] in us."    (1 John 4:12)

What?  God can be seen in us?

That’s what Jesus said.

You mean John said.

Jesus first.

Early on Jesus quoted from Deuteronomy:

“love your neighbor as yourself.”                                  (Deut. 19:18)

At the end he raised the bar:

“Love one another as I have loved you.”                       (John 13:34)

No longer am I exhorted to love others

as I imperfectly love myself.

I am commanded to love others by imitating

the perfect love of Jesus.

Love one another as I have loved you.

What is he saying?

See one another as I have seen you.

Help one another as I have helped you.

Befriend others as I have befriended you.

Teach one another as I have taught you.

Lift people up as I have lifted you.

That’s all it takes.  Just do that and

God can be seen.

Episode 26: April 3 - In Face of the Mystery

“The Lord is in his holy temple,

Let all the earth keep silence.”                                 (Habakkuk 2:20)

Silence indeed!

For God is silent.

Ear cannot hear,

eye cannot see,

sense cannot feel

what is there.

What is there?

The universe surrounds me

like the dark of night.

It is not empty

yet it does not speak.

There is a presence

that cannot be seen.

At the heart of the universe,

in the pulsing of life,

is a mystery

deep as the night

silent as the sky.

In the delicate unfolding

of a flower.

In the far-flung galaxies

of the universe.

In the closeness of two lovers

or a mother and her child.

In life.

And in death.

There is a mystery

deep

silent.

Eye cannot penetrate the darkness

to see what is there.

Ear cannot hear the distant music.

It is the very darkness itself

the eye is trying to see.

It is the very silence itself

the ear is trying to hear.

It is the dark, silent mystery

which has given us birth.

That which is.

but cannot be seen,

has caused all to be,

having no being.

Unseen,

unspeaking,

yet there.

And life is lived,

unless lived in the shallows,

in the face of that

mystery.

For the mystery within

resonates

with the mystery beyond.

Looking at that

which cannot be seen,

listening to that

which cannot be heard,

brought into being by that

which is beyond being,

seeking to know that

which cannot be known,

I face the vast deep

mystery

and say, “yes!”

Episode 25: April 2 - Light Has Come

It has happened!

The light has come!

“The people who walked in darkness

have seen a great light.”                                               (Isaiah 9:2)

Why has it come?

Are we to stare at it?

Have you ever looked

at the sun?

Or even a light bulb?

It hurts your eyes.

May even blind you.

You’re not supposed to stare

at the light.

The light shines.

But not on itself.

The light has come

so you can see

yourself

your neighbor

the world

everything

and God

in a whole new light

In other words:

If you see the light of Jesus

you’re going to start seeing

a lot more than

Jesus.

That’s why the light has come.

Do you see?

Episode 24: Apri 1 - Here's The Key

Jesus said

—and demonstrated with his life—

that the key to penetrating the Mystery is

love.

We are talking about living

in the face of the deep unknown.

And Jesus said the key to that is love.

We are asking what the mystery is,

and how we are to be related to it. 

And Jesus says the answer is love.

We are talking about understanding life,

about living life with a sense of meaning. 

Jesus said the key to that is love.

Jesus did it. 

Jesus loved. 

And loving, Jesus lived in such intimacy

with the mystery

that John could say

whoever has seen Jesus, has seen the face

of the mystery. 

Whoever has understood Jesus,

understands the mystery.

Maybe not everything, but

all you really need to know

for now.

What do you see when you look at Jesus?

Episode 23: March 31 - How Do We See Jesus?

Of course

what John meant by

“we have seen Jesus” was

we actually saw him.

We walked with him

      talked with him

            ate with him.

He was real.  O.K.?

Not an abstract idea,

myth, legend or someone’s speculations.

A concrete human being of

real live flesh and blood.  We saw him.

Of course

what John also meant was

we (and this time he includes

all of his readers, most of whom

--like us--

had not seen Jesus in the flesh)

WE have seen Jesus with

the eyes of understanding.

When we look at Jesus,

when we “see” Jesus

we have a new understanding of the Mystery

before which

and in which

we live out our lives.

Do we now have full understanding of all

the mystery of the unseen God?

No, but

in some important ways

the Mystery

--that which is beyond seeing—

has become visible to us.

Episode 22: March 30 - Jesus Said "Yes"

God is a Mystery.

Unseen Spirit.

Jesus said yes to

the Mystery.

Jesus dared to name the Mystery

“Father.”

And even on occasion

was brash enough to call the Mystery

“Daddy.”

Yes.

That word “Abba”

—which translators fear to touch

because it is too intimate—

is the equivalent of daddy or da-da.

Is that what it’s supposed to be like?

To feel as intimate and safe with God

as a baby snuggled in daddy’s or mommy’s arms?

Was that what Jesus had?

Was that Jesus’ secret?

So intimate was Jesus

with the mystery

that John could say

whoever has seen Jesus

has seen the face of the

Unseen Mystery.

I’ll ask it again:

What do you see when you look at Jesus?

Episode 21: March 29 - Who Has Seen God?

“No one has ever seen God.”

Yes, John, we heard you.

Did you hear the rest?

What?

No one has ever seen God,

but we have seen Jesus.

And Jesus said,

“Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.”                 (John 14:9)

Is that the answer?

Look and see.

God is one big unseen mystery.

So what are you going to do?  Quit?

Or continue the journey—

stay with the struggle—to make some sense

of it all.

“Turn your eyes upon Jesus’

says an old song.

Is that the answer?

Well, look

and see what you see

when you look

at Jesus.

What do you see when you look at Jesus?

Episode 20: March 28 - Has Anyone Seen God?

There’s this problem

in our search for God.

“No one has ever seen God.”                                        (John 1:18)

In case you missed that in John’s Gospel:

Its repeated in the First Letter of John.

“No one has ever seen God.”                                      (1 John 4:12)

Dust and breath/matter and spirit.

We know intimately the dust and matter part.

How do we get hold of the breath and spirit?

We need to capture it in something:

      a box, a building.

      a book, a creed.

Then we’ll know we have it right!

Or will we?  Who decides?

“Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say … people must worship in Jerusalem," said the woman.                                                                         (John 4:20)

Jesus answered, “Neither on this mountain

nor in Jerusalem.                                                           (John 4:21)

God is spirit, and those who worship

must worship in spirit and truth."                                    (John 4:24)

Don’t you see, Jesus?

That’s exactly our problem.

We can’t see spirit.  We can’t get hold of truth.

We need something more concrete.

Like those tablets of stone

you gave to Moses.

Yeah, that was a great idea.

I don’t know about this spirit stuff.

I just can’t see it.

Episode 19: March 27 - Time Out

Two children

played next door,

and I heard them use

a wonderful word—

a magic word—

“Time out!  Time out!”

One ran

and the other chased.

The one who chased

drew closer—

The one who ran

grew breathless—

“Time out!  Time out!”

And the running stopped

so each could

catch his breath

before they ran

again.

It is a magic word

for the magic age

of childhood

A magic word

that does not work

for grown up

         real life

                  children.

“Time out!  Time out!”

We run,

but cannot run away,

chased by time

we cannot slow.

We must run ahead

or be run down,

and fear that death

(boredom, loneliness, or

loss of identity)

will catch us if we stop.

God gives us no time out

but strength to run

and not grow faint;

no escape from time

but life that triumphs

over time.

“Call not,

‘Time out!  Time out!’

but know that

all time is in my hands,

and so cease your running

and turn to receive

life,

         and health,

                  and peace.”

Episode 18: March 26 - You Have To go Through It

When I was a tour guide

through the wilderness of grief,

(we called it a grief recovery group)

one of our cardinal principles was

“You can’t get past grief

without going through it.”

People want to avoid grief.

They want to go around grief.

They want to ignore grief.

They want to deny grief.

They want to speed past grief.

Some people try to drown grief

(you know what I mean.)

One woman drowned it for 15 years.

She thought it was working until

she got clean and sober.

And there it was staring her in the face.

She joined our group

and went through her grief to

get to the other side.

It worked.

Whatever lonely wilderness your life path

takes you through,

don’t be lonely alone.

Allow a friend or two to hold your hand.

Even if they don’t understand,

and don’t know what to say,

allow then to be there anyway.

Insist that they be there anyway.

It will help you get through it

which is the only way to get past it..

Episode 17: March 25 - I Find That I've Been Found

How many people go on long journeys

      --literally or figuratively—

to “find” themselves.

Does it work?

Maybe for some.

Others find themselves only

when they return

home.

Maybe they had to go on the journey

in order to find themselves

at home.

Some people lose themselves in their work.

Others get lost in drink or drugs.

Others . . . (fill in the blank.)

Jesus had another idea:                                                          (Matthew 16:25)

“those who want to save their life will lose it,

and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.”

Where do you get lost . . .

and found?

Episode 16: March 24 - From the Journal of a Wanderer - 3

Now I remember who I am.

I have been put back together again.

There are some experiences in life

that take us apart…

fragment…

dis-integrate.

In those wilderness moments we may

forget who we really are

deep down inside.

We no longer act

out of the center of our being

but react

off the surface,

and may even feel

that is who we are.

Then there are experiences that

put us back together…

unify…

integrate.

Coming out of the wilderness

I remember who I am again.

Life is back on the track.

I am free to be

who I really am

deep down inside.

And it feels good!

Episode 15: March 23 - From the Journal of a Wanderer - 2

Wandering through the wilderness

I had forgotten who I am.

It didn’t matter.

Getting from one day to the next

mattered

Getting to the other side

Mattered.

Getting the job done

Mattered.

I forgot that who I am mattered

Where was God?

I could not find God.

Not that God wasn’t there.

How could I find God when

I couldn’t find myself?

Where was I?

I could not find myself

alone in the wilderness.

Coming out of the wilderness

I found myself among friends.

Do you understand?

It is among friends

that I found myself.

And God was there too.

Episode 14: March 22 - From the Journal of a Wanderer - 1

The readings for the next three days are excerpts from the journal of one who wandered through a wilderness in life and got lost . . . and found.

FROM THE JOURNAL OF A WANDERER -- 1

For six months he wandered through

the wilderness.

Getting

more and more lost.

What had pushed him out there?

Forces from without.

What drove his seeking?

Forces from within.

He did not choose to go through

barren places;

the path he chose

went that way.

He had his reasons_.

It was not the wilderness

he was choosing;

the path he chose

went that way.

What were the reasons?

Survival_.

That^’s all that matters

after so long in the

wilderness_.

“Who are you?”

It doesn’t matter.

Then he reached

the other side.

He had survived.

Was that all that mattered?

Why had he survived?

Why was it important to survive?

Who was he?

And finding himself

among friends

he remembered who he was

and why he had come out

and what the reasons were_.

Returning home,

life

and those he loved

were a little more

precious.

Episode 13: March 21 - Wilderness

There seems to be a pattern

(1)   Mountain top

(2)   Wilderness

(3)   Living the new life

First there is an exciting

vision

of a new way of life.

Then the unmerciful

testing

of every fiber of your existence.

Only then is there the

living

of the life envisioned.

Jesus followed the pattern:

mountain top (baptism)

wilderness (40 days)

living the life (ministry.)

I’ve been through it too

in my own way.

And I see the value of it all.

But I do have a question.

Isn’t once in the wilderness

enough?

Why do I have to go through

the whole pattern

each time life is

renewed?

Episode 12: March 20 - Second Sunday in Lent

“In” but not “of.”

Remember that from

last Sunday?

In but not of:

that’s how we are to live

said Jesus.

In the midst of,

but not participating in.

We can’t help living

in the world.

This is where we live.

But we don’t have to be of the world.

We don’t have to be worldly.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but

be transformed by the renewing of your minds,

so that you may discern what is the will of God,

what is good and acceptable and perfect.”                 (Romans 12:2)

We are to be transformed

to be transforming

to be in the world as

      light

            and salt

                  and leaven.

In but not of.

Reshaping the world

in which we live

into the image

of Christ.

Episode 11: March 19 - It's More Than A Name

I don't know what to call you anymore.

"God" doesn't seem as intimate.

"Creator" is too remote.

It was so easy to call you "Father,"

but that's too limiting now.

"Mother"?  That's just as limiting.

God, if I’m going to Call on you

I have to call you something.

I want a title for you

that is both

intimate and personal,

and non-sexist.

But we don't have those kinds of words in English.

Mom, Dad, Son, Auntie:

all of our intimate titles denote gender.

We have to know whether a person

is male or female.

And you are both,

or neither.

Or both and neither.

Since nothing else seems quite right,

would you mind if I call you

by your first name?

Does it make a difference what you call God?

How does it effect the way you think about God.

How does it change the way you relate with God?

With that we conclude our week of searching questions.  But not our searching.  Ever.

Episode 10: March 18 - The Dawning of Darkness

Suppose we turn it around:

The people who walked in light

have seen a great darkness;"

"Those who lived in a land of

bright light--

on them darkness has dawned."

Darkness dawned?

Yes!  The dawning of darkness

opens one’s eyes to the light.

When it dawns on you

that you have been living in darkness

and darkness lives in you...

When it dawns on you

that your own biases are not any

more enlightened than those of others...

When it dawns on you

that the evil in the world is not

all "out there"...

                                 …there is hope.

The message of hope

is for those who can look

into their own darkness,

and see the light dawning.

"The people who walked in darkness

have seen a great light;

those who lived in a land of

deep darkness--

on them light has dawned."  (Isaiah 9:2)

Episode 9: March 17 - Freedom

Freedom!

What a hell of a gift!

Why, God?

Why that awful gift?

Why a gift that enables us to

--go in the wrong direction

                  until we are totally lost?

--waste our lives in a

                  million different ways?

--completely destroy ourselves

                  if that is our choice?

--make such a mess of our lives

                  there aren't even any pieces

                  to put back together?

Why a gift that enables us to

--hurt other people so much

                  when they need to be helped?

--use and misuse those who

                  are close to us?

--take advantage of people

                  when they are vulnerable?

--walk on people with total

                  disregard for their feelings?

--cut people up and throwaway

                  the pieces?

--make such a mess of other lives

                  there aren't even any pieces

                  to put back together?

Why did you give us a gift

that enables us

--to turn our backs on you?

--to take all your gifts and

                  use them for our own selfish

                  purposes?

--to stab you in the heart by

                  all our cruelty to one another?

--to go to hell

                  when you made us for heaven?

When I consider

all the gifts you have to give,

I can only ask why, God.

Why did you give us a gift

that allows us to create so much hell

for ourselves

for others

and for you?

Is it the only way

you could give us the gift of love?

Love means nothing

unless it is given freely.

Love is not love unless

we are free not to love.

We could not share the gift of love

without the gift of freedom.

But why, God?

Why do we take this gift

that was given

so we might discover

that which is most beautiful

that which is most meaningful

and use it to cause

so much pain

so much ugliness?

Freedom!

It's a hell of a gift!

Episode 8: March 16 - Something More

"What are you looking for?"

I asked a bird

scratching at the earth

with her beak.

The answer was easy:

"Seeds for my breakfast,

and twigs for my nest."

Food and shelter

in most basic of forms.

"What are you looking for?"

I asked a man

scratching at the earth

with a backhoe.

The answer was not easy.

"I'm not looking for anything,"

he began.

"This is my job,"

he ended.

But that was not the end

of my question,

for he had not given

the answer.

"What are you looking for?"

I asked.

"For what purpose

do you have this job?"

"I have this job to make money."

"And for what purpose

do you make money?"

"To buy food for my family,

and a roof over our heads."

"Then like the bird,

food and shelter are all

you are looking for."

He paused.

"All I am looking for?

All, out of life?

There is more to life

than food and shelter.

There has to be!

I am looking for...

something more."

"What are you looking for?"

"I don't know."

I told you
the answer was not easy.

Episode 7: March 15 - Who Are You? (A searching question)

Can you tell me

who you are

without naming

your occupation?

We have become accustomed

to categorizing people

according to their occupation,

and valuing people

according to their category.

But for you to tell me

that you are a farmer

does not tell me

who you are.

It only tells me

how you spend

some of your time.

For I have yet to meet

two farmers

--or teachers, or doctors,

or salesmen, or anything—

who are exactly alike.

It may be convenient

to put you into a category,

but it may blind me

to the real you

and to your value

as a person.

You are not a category.

You are a person!

What kind of person are you?

Can you forget the categories

other people put you into,

and tell me who you are?

Episode 6: March 14 - We're in Lent. Remember?

O.K., Sunday is over.

We’re back in lent.  Back to the waiting.

It’s like advent, a little.

Advent is a season of waiting:  waiting and hoping.

Lent is a season of waiting and searching.

Self-searching.

God searching.

What are we searching for?

What are you searching for?

What am I searching for?

(Searching questions.)

Searching my self.

Searching for myself?

Searching for God.

Searching out God.

Searching for understanding.

Understanding myself.

Understanding God.

And while I am searching . . .

“Search me, O God, and know my heart;

      test me and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me,

      and lead me in the way everlasting.”                 (Psalm 139:23-24)

Episode 5: March 13 - First Sunday in Lent

Sunday at last.

A little break from

the dust and ashes.

Do you know?

There are no Sundays of lent?

There are Sundays of advent.

There are Sundays in lent.

“In” but not “of.”

In the midst of

but not participating in.

Every Sunday is a little Easter.

I need that every week because

life can get heavy.

Especially during lent I need that because

lent can get heavy.

I need these little Easters

to keep me on track

to remind me why I am on

this heavy Lenten journey

as I move toward

the big Easter.

“This is the day that the Lord has made;

      let us rejoice and be glad in it.”                            (Psalm 118:24)

Episode 4: March 12 - Ash Saturday

I’m waiting.

“How long, O Lord?

Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I bear pain in my soul,

and have sorrow in my heart all day long? . . .

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God!

Give light to my eyes,”                                               (Psalm 13:1-3)

“My soul is in anguish. How long, O Lord, how long?

Turn, O Lord, and deliver me;

save me because of your unfailing love.”                      (Psalm 6:3-4)

“Those who wait for the Lord will

find their strength renewed,

they will mount up with wings like eagles,

they will run and not be weary,

they will walk and not faint.”                                       (Isaiah 40:31)

Another way to translate the Hebrew is

“Those who trust in the Lord will . . .”

I am waiting.

I will trust.

How long?

Episode 3: March 11 - Ash Friday

Tuesday there was partying.

Mardi gras. One last fling.

We were so full of the flame of life

or tried to convince ourselves we were.

Were we?

Our fast living

is but an attempt to outrun the wind.

Fearing the wind

      will blow out the flame of life

      will scatter even the ashes of our memory,

we run from the breath that gives life.

Wednesday came the ashes:

a reminder we are but dust.

Thursday it began to sink in.

      dust does not give life

      flame turns to ashes.

“Wretched one that I am!

Who will rescue me from this body of death?”           (Romans 7:24)

Dust does not give life.

Spirit gives life to dust.

Where can I find this Spirit?

Or must I wait to be found?

Episode 2: March 10 - Ash Thursday

Yesterday there were ashes.

And words:  You are dust

      and to dust you shall return.

I am doomed.

I came from dust.

I shall return to dust.

The flame of my life will burn out

      in ashes blown by the wind.

And that will be the end.

Is that how it ends?

Ashes blown by the wind?

Or is that how it begins?

“In the beginning

the earth was a formless void and . . .

a wind from God swept over.”                                  (Genesis 1:1-2)

“The wind blows where it chooses,

      and you hear the sound of it,

but you do not know

      where it comes from

      or where it goes,” said Jesus

So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”              (John 3:8)

Is that how it begins?

Ashes blown by the wind.

Wind sweeping over the dust of the earth.

Spirit breathing life into the dust.                                  (Genesis 2:7)

Blow once again, O Spirit,

breathe new life once more

let me be born of the Spirit

I who am but dust and ashes.

Episode 1: March 9 - Ash Wednesday

What?

Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.

What?

You are the dust of the earth,

and to dust you shall return.

What?

God took some dirt from the ground

and formed a human being

and breathed in the breath of life.

What?

Dust and breath;

matter and spirit.

That’s who we are.

And how do we live?

            Dust and breath?

            Matter and spirit?