A five-minute Christian meditation and lectio divina practice on Isaiah 40:8, with a reading from Peri Zahnd's Every Scene by Heart. Day 53 of the Unseen Existences series.
Isaiah 40:8 (NRSVUE)
The grass withers; the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
All things are passing. God never changes.
Peri Zahnd, from Every Scene by Heart
“This is the Meseta,
that middle section of life,
that sometimes boring, sometimes tedious section of life,
but we realize in hindsight how beautiful it all was
and that we wouldn’t have skipped it for anything!...
And then you leave the Meseta and cross more mountains.
You realize the end is nearer, but that it’s really just a beginning....
It’s a mystery, but a mystery I now approach
more trustingly, more willingly,
surrendering myself to the purposes of God.”
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