May 5.... a day when the human spirit once again has an opportunity to recognize the liberation process. Of course the day pertains specifically to May 5, 1862--the battle of Puebla...a day of the victory of Mexican forces the city of Puebla)over the French. A specific day marking a specific event....but like so many singular moments of victory this one fans the universal human desire to lift up the difference between bondage and freedom.
It is uplifting to see the way that hope or courage or healing seeps into our hearts and expands so that our tongues speak words of praise and thanksgiving. Those words sparkle in the darkness of human suffering. Those words have the potential to find a crack or chink or crack in the hardness of oppression and set down the root of God's love.
So...even in the midst of natural devestation or the pall of terrorism the children of God will sing out. Some sing lyrically,some sing in silent prayer. Others sing by doing something tangible.
Infinite ways to utter the words. And amazingly, the message of Christ, the source of abundant and abiding life is amplified each time you are living out of gratitude for what you have...hope for what is possible...faith in the ultimate freedom darkness.
How and where will you sing of the freedom we have been given by God today?
ps: if you have time, watch this! It is a follow up to The Butterfly Circus
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