I Met God Today

One Day Now more than ever, our world needs prayer, needs healing, needs beauty, needs reminders of its saving. Now more than ever, we need prayer, need healing, need beauty, need reminders of our saving, to save us from ourselves Open your mind and you will find those reminders. Open your eyes and you can see them Open your ears and you can hear them. Open your mouth and you can speak them or sing them. Open your heart and you will be them – for yourself, for others. Read the words the people in this video are singing and watch their faces - this is a prayer - for peace, for oneness, for an end to ‘othering’, for an end to division and violence and hatred, for us to know ourselves as brothers and sisters. One day, we will all be one ... may that day be soon  This is Jesus' prayer: 'that all may be one' (John 17:21). It is my prayer.   Make it your prayer too. One Day. That all may be one. Koolulam | One Day - Matisyahu | Haifa | Feb. 14th, 2018 "One day this all will ...

Beauty will save the world? "I believe the world will be saved by beauty."  So says Prince Lev Nikolyaevich Myshkin, the protagonist in Fyodor Dostoevsky's, The Idiot . Of course, that this is not true in the absolute and literal sense is something of which Dostoevsky was fully aware.  It is God who saves the world - only God: 'for God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life' (John 3:16). In these days, our world is filled with much that is intensely ugly - violence, corruption, division, racism, anger, poverty, gaping inequality, hunger, war, displacement of peoples, exploitation, diminished respect for life, out-of-control consumerism, climate change and destruction, an ongoing pandemic.  There is so much pain, so much hurt, so much heartache. So much is broken. So much seems beyond repair. We are tired and we are raw from all the ugliness. Darkness threatens to overwhelm the li...