Love - A reading for May 31st

Bishop Steven Charleston's book Hope As Old As Fire contains prayers that he was written over the course of a year.  He published this book in 2012 through Red Moon Publications.

In the Bishop's Office we begin with a short prayer gathering and the reading for the day comes from this book.  After the reading there is silence for a few minutes.  Some may ponder the reading and wonder how he knew it was what they needed to hear.

Here is today's reading.

Love comes to us, abides in us, transforms us, becomes us.

Love finds us in hidden places but dances with us in public.

Love lives in quiet but shouts our name, even if only we can hear it.

Love fills any space we will make, follows any direction we will take.

Love waits for an eternity to share one moment's grace.

Love is who we are, when we are, what we are, as love first imagined.

Flowers from the Sacred Circle

They let us take pieces when we left. 

This workshop brought together individuals that were currently practicing different spiritual practices or types of Christianity together in one room.

In the middle of the room was a large vase of spring flowers.  Dancing around the flowers was the sweetest little boy, brought to this sacred circle by his mother, who practice running at the flowers and stopping, or climbing on unused chairs, then jumping off, all the time looking for approval for those gathered around.

For a few days these takeaways reminded me of spring, growing, evolving, just exactly what all of us were doing for two weeks.