February 19, 2025
Acceptance & Reorientation – Rev. Dina
Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate wrote a beautiful poem. Many beautiful poems.
The poem below reminds me of Jesus’ sermon on the level place which we started last Sunday and will continue with this coming Sunday.
Ada Limón’s words capture in a lovely way how much we want to be right. How frustrating it is when are so constantly wrong. Jesus’ words to those hearing must have been so frustrating and disorienting.
If we listen to Jesus we can see our mistakes, our inaccuracies. Can we receive them with joy and humor? Or frustration? I guess that depends on the softness and openness of our hearts. If they are open, and we find joy and humor then what follows? Gratitude? Humility? Change?
We are not wrong all the time. God lets us know that too.
Will we commit to accept our mistakes and take joy in them. Will we keep looking and hearing? Is it then, and only then, that we truly see those fleeting moments when we are right? How will the grace of those moments give us the humility and drive to change, not just for our own well-being, but for the well-being of the world to which we are always connected?
