Dear Church Family and Friends,
In his most recent book Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, the world-renowned Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano writes of the unacknowledged, though often stolen and plagiarized, greatness of African art. In doing so, he writes, “West African sculptors have always sung while they worked. And they do not stop singing until their sculptures are finished. That way the music gets inside the carvings and keeps on singing.”
If we humans are sculptures in the making, then the Holy Spirit is the song that reverberates inside. How close at hand the Holy Spirit is and yet how far away it can seem when our ears are bombarded with the roar of discordant and distracting sounds. Perhaps religion at its best helps us to focus our listening so that each of us can hear the songs that are within us. If we but pay attention, we can hear their heart-throbbing melodies of passion and love, life and grace.
May each of us hear our song and dance with abandon.
Your brother in Christ,
Pastor Brooks