For many years now I have considered myself a scribe – something like Mark, Luke or Matthew who pass on a sacred story from someone else. In this New Year of 2012 when we acknowledge that life is always changing or transforming I think some thoughts from Marianne Williamson’s “Everyday Grace” are very appropriate.
She writes, “There is no corner on earth in which God’s love, expressed through me is not desperately needed. It is our power to serve the good and holy.” Remember that Cinderella’s fairy godmother didn’t ‘order out’ the things around them but rather transformed them. The pumpkin and the mice and the rags were already there. Anything and everything is the raw stuff of miracles and transformation. May it be so for you and me this winter of 2012.