Blog 3219 – 8.25.2024

Thank You For This Day, Spirit

Five days ago I posted a blog showing the other side of the small quarter-sized medallion pictured above. The other side reads, “I am holy, I am whole.” I fully intended at the time to follow up the next day with a piece on this side of the coin. But inspiration lead in other directions.

While on my early morning walk this morning I was thinking about what to write about and my original intention came back to me. One of the phrases that I chose some time ago to add to my daily mantra is, “This is the day that the Lord and I have made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.”

For almost twenty years in the middle of my almost seventy-four year adventure in time and space, I rejected the religion of my childhood, youth, and early adult years and tried my best to be an atheist. I was actually tricked by a purported quantum physicist into considering something higher and bigger outside myself again, well not really, he stated that for the principles behind The Secret or The Law of Attraction to work for me that I had to believe in a higher power. Before I could raised my guard he disarmed me by continuing, “But, if that is a problem for you just think of your higher power as your higher best self.” No problem – I can do that. Some have said that even most religious people create God in their own image anyway.

In the wonderful book and movie, The Shack, Mack, the central character, first sees God as a black lady who befriended him at one of the darkest times in his childhood. Later he comes to see the other two beings in the Christian Trinity, Jesus -the Son, and Sarayu – the Spirit, played in the movie by and a handsome young Middle Eastern man and a beautiful young Asian woman respectively. Papa God later reveals himself briefly as a mature Native American man. I think it no accident that white Scots-Irish-American male MacKensie, sees God as a motherly Black woman, young Middle Eastern male, young Asian woman, and a fatherly Native American. That short but profound Bible verse comes to mind, “God is all in all.”

Yesterday, I wrote of a cool breeze. In the New Testament story of an extended conversation between a rich Jew named Nicodemus and Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus compares the Spirit to the wind, breath, or breeze. We cannot see the wind itself, yet we can see and feel its effects.

Thank you for this day, Spirit. May an attitude of gratitude reveal to us all, our higher, better, and best self.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White