Unprecedented Access

Unprecedented Access
3/19/06

Great Spirit that flows through us and among us, you are the energy that binds us together. You are love.

God, you are with us every moment of every hour of every day of every week. You are within us and we are within you. But God, in the world we live in, you face fierce competition for our attention. Each week we fill our time doing our best to meet our responsibilities. And when it is time to “rest” from that work, we have 150 cable channels on the television, unlimited evening and weekend minutes on the cell phone, and 24-hour broadband access to the internet. The world has unprecedented access to us and is quite savvy at getting their messages through to us. But what about you God? We see you. We see you in the blooms of early spring, in the face of a child, in the peaceful passing of a loved-one. But do we hear you? Really hear you? Other than recognizing your presence in our lives and appreciating your grace, do we take the time to try to understand the messages you are trying to get through to us? Amidst all of the noise of our daily lives, when you whisper into our hearts, can we find your voice amongst the e-mail and the voicemail? God, help us to structure our lives so that we come to rely on a sacred space with you, a space where we can hear you without interruption, without distraction, a space where we are not available to the world through ordinary means, but that you are the one granted unprecedented access to us.

Amen