Open Our Eyes

The eyes of children see with wonder, imagination and appreciation. In their eyes a clump of wet sand becomes a castle; a passing cloud, a butterfly; the stars the beacons of worlds beyond ours; animals, friends;, trees, ladders to be climbed; church, a glimpse of the sacred and mysterious. Jesus reminds us that "Unless you become like little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of God. (cf. Mt 18:3) June has its "perfect days" and if we have not lost our childhood innocence and imagination, we can forget ourselves and become lost in the profound beauty around us and proclaim in awe: "How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!/ Your majesty is praised above the heavens;/ on the lips of children and of babes..../ When I see the heavens, the work of your hands,/ the moon and the stars which you arranged/
[I ask] "what is man, that you should keep him in mind...?" Yet, we are the pinnacle of all creation, made in God's image and likeness...more breathtaking than the snow-covered Rockies or Alps, a South Dakota sunset, a mighty sequoia or the Oregon Coast. "God created man in his image;/ in the divine image he created him;/ male and female he create them. God blessed them, saying to them: ""Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.' God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good." (Gen 1: 27-28, 31a).
May we open our eyes today and see with the innocence of young children what wonders surround us, what wonders we are.
Bro. Rene