WORD Week 09-26-2005 BE STILL

Psalm 46

1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Selah 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. 5 God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. 6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. 7 The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah 8 Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth. 9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields [b] with fire. 10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." (NIV)

BE STILL

Life is a journey full of beauty, joy, anticipation, surprise, paradox, and pain. During the course of our lives, many of us have witnessed joy as well as a those things that have caused us to experience profound lamentation and heaviness. Over the past 50 years, many of our lives have been radically transformed by such events as the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and President John F. Kennedy; the Vietnam War; starvation in Somalia; the HIV epidemic; the explosion of the space shuttle; 911; the War in Iraq; the derailment of trains; numerous terrorist attacks; Tsunami; Hurricane Katrina and the lists continues. Such suffering causes even the most faith-anchored and spiritually connected person to become restless and ponder alternatives that might facilitate healing in the world.
Consequently, we have become the beneficiaries of some very difficult to fathom and challenging circumstances. Significantly, many of the values and which we have held sacred and have utilized to define democracy, justice, hope, and our nation have eroded or have been eradicated and/or washed away literally/figuratively in seconds!
Far too often, we are inundated on a daily bases, almost to the degree of becoming numb, with profound and senseless suffering in our world. Such pervasive suffering moves some of us to anesthetize our feelings by engaging in activities that provides us with a transient escape from reality, while others are immobilized by the profundity of helplessness. Such a barrage of suffering causes even the strongest person to become anxious and eager to incite some movement on the behalf of GOD, who we believe on some level is not moving fast enough, or much less in a manner that we can detect!
In instances like those aforementioned, we are provoked to become more intimately immersed within the depths of GOD as we seek understanding, purpose, and meaning for suffering! Oftentimes, we have already done the very best that we are able and even then, our most regal efforts appear unappreciated; ineffective; insufficient; or defunct as the onslaught of a catastrophe makes the one which transpired before it look minuscule. Do we really want to go to the next level? I am not so certain sometimes.
In the book by Joseph Bruchac entitled Gluskabe And The Four Wishes, this narrative, couched in the narrative tradition of the Native American, depicted the lives of four Abenaki men who sought the fulfillment of their wishes from Gluskabe, the Great Spirit.
As these four men happen upon their dangerous journey, one wished for great possessions, another for great height, another for long life, and still another for the ability to hunt well to feed his people.
After incurring the perils of the fierce winds and being encircled by a mass of mammoth size whales, the four seekers reached the island of Gluskabe. Gluskabe acknowledged the fact that these men had worked very hard to reach him despite the perils that they encountered.
Consequently, Gluskabe informed each man that he had earned the right for one wish. Each man wished as follows: 1) One wished for great possessions, 2) Another for great height, 3) Another for long life, and 4) Still another for the ability to hunt well to feed his people. Gluskabe looked at the fourth man and smiled. He took out four pouches and gave one to each of the men. He stated, "In each of these you will find what you want. But do not open them before you get home and in your own lodges."
Ironically, we might possibly think, in instances like these, that our struggles do not appear to measure up too much if we were to be sent home with a pouch?
Nevertheless, all of the men agreed, crossed the river, and pursued their individual destinations. However, curiosity, anxiety, questions, uncertainty, and the inability to be still got the better of the three and resulted in the each of these men peeking inside of the bag. The man who wanted great possessions upon opening the bag immediately acquired so many possessions that it caused the new boat that he acquired to sink entangling him in the possessions; the man who wanted great height upon opening the bag and was immediately transformed into the tallest pine tree; the man who wanted long life upon opening the bag and was immediately turned into a large boulder which would remain unchanged for thousands of seasons...all three whose curiosity and anxiety had prevented them from being still.
The fourth man did not think of himself and traveled home. He had farther to go then the others, but did not stop nor did he look into the bag. Upon reaching his abode, he opened the pouch, but there was nothing inside. He felt disappointed, confused, betrayed, and dumbfounded. While holding the pouch, insights and revelations were beginning to come to him as never before as he gained understanding about the nature and the habits of animals. Afterwards, he became a great hunter for his people only hunting that which was needed. The lesson that both Gluskabe, the Great Spirit, and the four Abenaki men offers us is compelling, profound, and simple.

In times of uncertainty, distress, and suffering, David, the Psalmist, reminds us that GOD requires us to
"be still and know that I AM GOD!"
"Be Still and know that I am God!"


K. Mason

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LOVE

Today as we meet in SPIRIT and in TRUTH, let us reflect upon the impenetrable "BOND" and "BALM" of LOVE. Let us continue to render our CHANTS and PRAYERS as an offering to our DIVINE CREATOR who saves our tears in a Crystal Chalice and interprets their essence with HIS response called LOVE. Today my Brothers and Sisters, I charge thee with the risk to LOVE!

WORD Week 09-18-2005 Help Is On The Way!

Psalm 121

1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. 6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

HELP IS ON THE WAY!

Apathy, depression, depravation, injustice, oppression, obstruction, persecution, suffering, and posttraumatic stress are all pandemic major events that plague the lives of innocent, empathic, and faith-abiding people on a daily bases. It is a rarity, via the media, that we witness prospects of hopefulness, civility, justice, tolerance, concern for one's neighbor, and compassion as an acutely essential stitch of the fabric that makes us human.

Olaudah Equiano known as Gustavus Vassa, the African who lived in the eighteenth century (1745-1797) was thoroughly acquainted with pandemic sufferings such as those aforementioned. Though the circumstances and the occurrence of time are, on some level, different, the pathos and its capacity to crush the spirit, the worth, the dignity, and the hope of a man and/or woman are ever present and pervades the parameters of chronological time even to the present time.

Olaudah Equiano was Kidnapped from his native land of African at the age of eleven, sold in to slavery, taken from Africa, to Barbados, from Barbados to Virginia, from Virginia to the waters of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and from Canada to England, France, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and on an expedition to the Arctic.

Though his journey enabled him to encounter a world broader then this imagination had dared dream, his journey was fraught with suffering, oppressive conditions, and the inhumane treatment of thousands of Africans who stories and pathos are still unknown and spoken at the present time. Olaudah encountered, via intimate proximity, the degradation and desecration of humanity in its most brutal form in the treatment of the African and African American. In his narrative entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, he recounts and recapitulates in graphic detail the circumstances, the inhumane conditions, and the pathos of thousands of Africans and African American who were the recipients of the boundless consequences of oppression, racism, greed, bad theology, skewed democracy, and malevolent pandemic narcissism in the development of the what we know today as the United States.

Despite the presence of apathy, depression, depravation, injustice, oppression, obstruction, persecution, suffering, and posttraumatic stress which were pandemic major events that plagued the lives of innocent, empathic, and faith-abiding people on a daily bases in the eighteen hundreds, Gustavus Vassa, the African, became the first Commissary of Provisions and Stores for the Black Poor going to Sierra Leone. He reports early on accustomed himself to look at the hand of GOD in the minutest occurrences, and sought to learn from it the lesson that "what makes an event important, is that by it observation we become better, wiser, and learn to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly before GOD." The African reminds us to TRUST GOD not the circumstance and to be transformed for the work of goodness! This requires courage!

In PSALM 121: 1-8 David offers us direction in times such as these a prescription and regiment that will assist us in adhering to the FAITH and SPIRIT that not only provides us with the ability to persevere, but the capacity and impetus to conquer. David invites us to look to the hills from whence cometh our help as our help cometh from the Lord.

David's provocation and invocation are more then just merely statements, but are, in actuality, a petition for each of us to reserve enough faith and trust not only in GOD, but the slow and steady process and hand of GOD. When David invites us to look to the hills from whence cometh our help as our help cometh from the Lord, he, in essence, is reminding you and me to step not away from, but outside of our condition, circumstance, dilemma, situation, and suffering just long enough to enable us to focus on a force of spectacular brilliance and splendor whose power is so much larger than you, me, and/or any of the circumstances which we encounter or fathom to imagine!

David, reminds us that we can achieve true triumph by looking up towards the heavens to be reminded of a loving, compassionate, and omnipotent GOD who never sleeps nor slumbers; a loving,compassionate, and omnipotent GOD who will not allow the terrors of the day nor the terrors of the night to obliterate us; a loving, compassionate, and omnipotent GOD who will watch over our coming in and going out of the circumstances of life and who desires to see about you!

Beloved: Your Help Is On The Way!


K. Mason
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RELEASE: SET IT FREE

Two statues that were meant to hold up the sacred tomb are the Bound Slave and the Dying Slave (c. 1510-13). Both are considered to be unfinished, but the Captive Slave, in particular, demonstrates Michelangelo's approach to carving. Michelangelo often referred to the process of carving as one in which he discovers the form which is already imprisoned in the stone. He believed that his job was to release what was already there. It is also his belief that the human soul is a prisoner who strives to be released from its bodily form.

HE LEADS ME BESIDE STILL WATERS

DEDICATION TO NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS

DEEP CALLETH UNTO DEEP

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Job 38:16-17

Deep calleth unto deep ... all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me ... Save me O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink ... where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God ... O God thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee ... Deliver me ... and let me not sink ... let me be delivered ... out of the deep waters. Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good; turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. Psalm 42:7, 69:1-3,5, 14-17

GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH A PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE

YOU ARE IN OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!

WORD Week 09-11-05 CARRIED

Psalm 27

1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. 7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. 9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

CARRIED

On any given day we are inundated with an onslaught of news that deposits themes of hopelessness and cynicism in our spirits and psyches. Oftetimes, this news is fraught with negativity and adulation of self-centeredness and high disregard for others. It is during such times that we see nations fighting among nations, inequality vanquishing equality, injustice emasculating justice, malignant narcissism annihilating the power of empathy, friendships eroding, families disintegrating, unemployment rising at epidemic rates, and people being displaced from their homes. Such occurrences are not necessarily a consequence of bad decisions nor are they necessarily a consequence of the lack of personal discipline, a lack of faith, nor a lack of one having a connection with a faith community, but far to often, such circumstances are consequences that are an outgrowth of forces that are so much larger then you or I! It is during such times that we must realize that even during such horrific times that we are being "CARRIED THROUGH."

In a book entitled Why Can't I Fly? by Ken Brown, the Ostrich sets out on a journey to discover what are the hindrances that prevent him from flying. The Ostrich consults his friend, the Sparrow, and observes that the flamingoes who have long necks like he does and that the storks who have long legs like he does can, in fact, fly and questions, "Why can't I fly?"

The Ostrich is told perhaps he does not try hard enough. After repeated attempts to fly commensurate with the pain of defeat each time. The Ostrich places his head in the ground. After allowing himself time to be present to his suffering, the Ostrich tries three more times and becomes entangled in the laves of a palm tree.

Feeling desperate and washed up, but not given out, the Ostrich tries one last time and begins to fly. He shouts to the heavens that he is flying and oh if his friends could witness this with him! He couldn't believe that he was flying and the likelihood that others would not believe that he was flying relentlessly haunted him.

As the reader turns to the final page of this story we see above the clouds with invisible strings, all of the birds of the heavens had linked a line from the Ostrich to themselves and, in fact, did witness his flight as they were the ones who were carrying him!

David reminds us in Psalms 27 "I would have fainted unless I believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!" He petitions us to "Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait I say, on the LORD."

TO YOU, THE BELOVED OF GOD, LET GOD CARRY YOU! FOR EVEN RIGHT NOW IN YOUR DISTRESS IT IS NOT BY OUR OWN POWER OR MIGHT THAT YOU STAND, BUT BY THE INVISIBLE LINKS THAT GOD HAS ESTABLISHED FROM HIMSELF TO US THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! MAY YOU TAKE REFUGE IN THE UNSHAKABLE HANDS AND UNQUENCHABLE AND UNDEFEATABLE LOVE OF GOD!

GET CARRIED!

"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of GOD, and not in us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." 2 Corinthians 4:7-9

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WORD Week 9-04-05 THE HIDDEN HOLY

THE HIDDEN HOLY

2 Kings 11:1-3

Athaliah and Joash

1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram [a] and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed. 3 He remained hidden with his nurse at the temple of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land. [NIV]Exodus 2:3

3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. [NIV]

Since the commencement of humanity to the present time both men and women have discovered the strength of their weakness and the weakness of their strength through contact and exposure to the Hidden Holy. These encounters with the Hidden Holy are radically life transforming whether we intentionally walk into the nucleus of the conspicuous or whether circumstance catapults us into the nucleus of the clandestine.

Subsequently, it is only in retrospect, that time [both chronos and chiros] provides the seeker with a compelling revelation that he/she has encountered the Hidden Holy. In essence, it is only after we have recovered from the potency of the impact of being in the divine presence of GOD, that we realize that which is the Hidden Holy was initially obscure to us. Consequently, revelation becomes the catalyst for epiphany and epiphany becomes the salvific force that promotes a life-long encounter with deep and abiding faith through repeated encounters with the Hidden Holy.

Throughout the development of human history, our Holy Writ offers us a plethora of instances when the Hidden Holy becomes the Hidden Holy Revealed. Though our encounter with the Hidden Holy initially appears enigmatic or even cryptic at times, sustained intimacy with it provides us with GOD'S healing balm of protection; GOD'S healing balm of love.

In the Old Testament of the Bible 2 Kings 11:1-3, we become intimately acquainted with the dynamics that foster that which is requisite for the Hidden Holy. When Athaliah the mother of the deceased Ahaziah is grief-stricken, she in her pathos makes a decree to destroy the royal family. However, when Jeosheba, daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, becomes cognizant of Athaliah's plan, she removes Joash, son of Ahaziah, from the company of the royal kingdom and places both he and his nurse in a bedroom in the temple for hiding. Joash remains hidden with his nurse for six years.

Moreover, we observe the same dynamic taking place with Moses who is placed in a papyrus basket among the reeds along the bank of the Nile River to divert the "prophet to be" from harm, destruction, and extinction.

Significantly, the proclamation of the logos, advent, the birth of the Christ-Child becomes the cosmic and eschatological catalyst that reaches epidemic proportions as King Herod decrees that the life of the Christ-Child be extinguished!

What is most striking and mammoth about the motif of the Hidden Holy is that it is a requisite for the human condition; i.e., there is something inherent in our nature that evades words and conscious, yet intrinsically thirsts for a dynamic and meaningful connection with GOD. Some refer to this connection as the collective unconscious, while others refer to this connection as SPIRIT which is derived from the Latin word spiritus that means breath; i.e., respiration. Biblical narrative offers us greater insight into the two dimensions that will offer us joy and peace when the Hidden Holy becomes the Hidden Holy Revealed.

THE HIDDEN HOLY

In the children's book entitled The Black Snowman by Phil Mendez, a mother who is raising her two sons attempts to reframe the family's lack of financial resources in a manner that does not inhibit their capacity for love and happiness. The older of the two sons, Jacob, is angered and frustrated by the families pathos and is unable to be present to the Hidden Holy that is coursing through the persona of his younger brother, Peewee.

One early morning the boys went outside. Peewee desired to play in the snow to the strong objection of Jacob who argued that the snow was too watery and black as a consequence of all those who had walked and trampled upon it. Peewee with openness and imagination proceeded to build a snowman and Jacob joined him. Once the snowman was completed, Jacob surmised that something was missing. Consequently, Peewee found a tattered colorful old kente, which Jacob objected to using.

Nevertheless, Peewee draped the shawl around the shoulder of the snowman. Subsequently, the snowman came to life and his speech startled the boys. Jacob was still disturbed as he had an earlier conversation with his mother that everything black seemed to be have a negative connotation ascribed to it. Mother, of course, provided Jacob with a less cynical perspective, but he was still unconvinced. Consequently, when he was confronted by a black snowman.

Next, the snowman placed his hand on Jacob's forehead as he tells Jacob that the heavens are black and that the universe is held in it. He asked Jacob, "What is most important in a book, the white pages, the black words, or the message that the book holds?" The snowman asked Jacob if he had ever sat at the tables of his forefathers. Jacob was puzzled as mother called from the window. The snowman indicated to Jacob that their work was just beginning.

Still troubled about the incident earlier that morning, Jacob fell asleep that night, but was awakened by a voice that said, "Arise, great warrior!" Jacob got out of bed and placed his coat over his pajamas and ran outside.

The snowman waved his hand and the ancestors appeared. He asked Jacob if he studied with the scholars of Timbuktu, ridden with the horsemen of Bornu, danced with the Zulu, wrestled with the Nuba, hunted with the Bini, heard the stories of the Ashanti, read the poems of the Tuareg, or the prayers of the Zande. He told Jacob that he was a descendant of Africans of a great heritage. Jacob was frighten and ran back to the house.

THE HIDDEN HOLY REVEALED

The following day Jacob heard an explosion from the building across the street. The snowman appeared to Jacob and expressed to him that Peewee was inside of the building a blazed with fire. Subsequently, the snowman and Jacob ran into the building and reached Peewee. Under the colorful tattered old kente, which was the cloth of the ancestors, the snowman stepped from beneath it as it was just enough room for Peewee and Jacob. Though the snowman started to melt, but was able to solidify again when Jacob articulated, "restore," this kente contained the wisdom and memories of the ages and was a kente cloth that accompanied prisoners loaded on ships across a vast ocean where they were sold into slavery. This kente passed through generations, even after slavery and was used until it was discarded as a useless rag. The smoke-filled shadows of the ancestors led the boys to safety. After the fireman extinguished the fire, he saw a colorful old kente that he picked up to take to his daughter who he believed would use it to make a dress for her doll.

In essence, there are a myriad of blessings waiting for you, though at present, they appear in the NOW-HERE as the HIDDEN HOLY!

What must we do when we are in this place?

What must we do when we are in this space?

Simply stated, but challenging to do, WAIT ON GOD! That's right, WAIT ON THE LORD [Which is an active and dynamic process that is in no way passive]!

In order to that we might be graced by the gift of waitng, we must understand that things must go in to hiding for two significant reasons. There are two types of ways in which things are hidden: 1] Those things which are hidden for a great deal of time for development and then retrieved when the danger subsides to become prophetic fulfillment as in the case of Athaliah and Joash, Moses, JESUS; 2] Those things which are hidden, discarded, or cast away in order to achieve the status of the Hidden Holy Revealed which liberates, regenerates, and heals us and enables the will of GOD to be manifested as in the cases of Jesus/The Resurrection and the Kente Cloth of Jacob and Peewee.

Consequently, when you believe that there is no movement in your life and that, perhaps, GOD has forgotten about you, your desires, your aspirations, your fears, your hurts, your disappointments, and your devastations and when you believe that your condition or circumstances are much too large for GOD, remember this: Wait! You are in the PRESENCE of your HIDDEN HOLY which is waiting to become your HIDDEN HOLY REVEALED! "For eyes have not seen, neither have ears heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man what GOD has in store for those who love him."

K. Mason

(c) 2005

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