When the light of the Epiphany star sears our souls, it also casts a beam of light across and beyond any horizon we might have imagined before, calling us to a new vision. Yes, our days are punctuated by normal, everyday common doins’, but when we make space for God’s grace to inhabit us and soak us through to the depths of our hearts, we are amazed and drawn out of our everydayness to see and do the unimaginable. God’s light will show us amazing possibilities for our world.
[So many things are possible] if we let the Light and Spirit of this small and vulnerable babe penetrate our hearts, allowing us to see beyond the darkness of our too small worlds, the shrunken horizons of our own making… if we are faithful to our everyday calls like shepherds and ever ready to travel towards new and wider horizons like the wise Magi sojourners… if we trust that God teaches us to see to the inside of our daily realities where the power of God is at work, always beckoning us deeper and forward.
--Barbara R. Quinn, RSCJ
Image source: Gentile da Fabriano, The Adoration of the Magi (1423), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi#/media/File:Gentile_da_fabriano,_adorazione_dei_magi.jpg
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