Liturgy 059: The Eyes of the Christ Child

🕊️ A Prayer and a Blessing to see your ordinary and oft times sinful life as the dwelling place of God

☕️ Lectio Divina

This will be a sign to you:
You will find a baby
wrapped in cloths
lying in a manger

— The Gospel According to Luke

God walks among
the pots and pans

— St. Teresa of Avila

🪴 Prayer

LORD
You see me
My disfigured desires

LORD
You see me
The smallness of my intentions

LORD
You see me still
A creature made
Born of your Image

LORD
Help me see as you do
Disentangling immaturity
From inherent beauty

Even a toddler
stumbling through
the mud against
a parent’s wishes
is worthy of love
and full of possibility

Help me LORD
in these days

To look deeper
into the eyes
of the Christ child

In the Palestinian
infant peasant boy
the Divine and Humanity
danced as One

A Holy Ordinary
World of Love
Receiving the Humble Care
of Mary and Joseph

May my own life become
such a place

May my conventional
unspectacular human life
and all its shortcomings
not be a hindrance,
but a dwelling
for you to be
born anew
this day

🕊️ Blessing

Dear Friend

During these Days of Advent may you catch yourself in autopilot and continue whatever is in front of you with the Nearness of Christ. May you ponder the mystery that Christ is being born anew within and through your regular life. In you is the possibility of divine love, renewal, reconciliation, compassion, and unrelenting hope. May you be the manger in which Christ arrives to those around you.

Amen