Week 1. Day 6 – Entanglement

One Body. Above all. Through all. In all.

I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love. Colossians 2:2

Balls of yarn fell off the shelf
Landing softly
Heaped on the floor.
Where a cat found the play-filled treasure
Pushing and pulling,
Rolling, pawing.
The neatly ordered storage
Now an entangled array of color.
Knotted together, entwined in inescapable unity.
Creating a woven cloth of unimaginable beauty.
Weaving colors few would dare.
No one thread existing independently.
Each linked with every other.
Pulling one engages the others,
Linking more tightly
Moving as one.
The cat lying in the midst of it all, purred in delight
Entwinement
 
The lives of people
Feel into a heap within the earth,
Where the Holy found the play-filled treasure
Pushing and pulling
Rolling and loving.
The neatly ordered
Now an entangled array of color.
Knit together, entwined in escapable unity.
Creating a woven world of imaginable beauty
Weaving colors as no human would dare
No one person existing independently,
Each linked with every other.
Pulling on one engages all,
Linking more tightly
Moving as one.
Everything is with everything else.
Nothing exists in and of itself,
The Divine, lying within its midst sings with delight.

Breathprayer:

              Breathing in:   Holy God…

Breathing out: …uniting all.

Reflection:  When have you felt the joy of the mystery of being united with other people through difference? 

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The reflection was written for the Online daily Devotion of the Southeast Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.