Called to new vision (Barbara E. Quinn)

    When the light of the Epiphany star sears our souls, it also casts a beam of light across and beyond any horizon we 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… 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. It is not impossible if we are faithful to our everyday calls like the shepherds and ever ready to travel towards new and wider horizons like the wise Magi sojourners. [Nothing is] impossible 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. In the words of William Blake: 

 To see a World in a Grain of Sand 

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, 

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 

Eternity in an hour. 

 

                   (From “Auguries of Innocence”) 

 

     Let this be our Epiphany prayer. 

--Barbara E. Quinn, RSCJ       

Image source:  Dandelion cross section showing curved stigma with pollen, magnified 25x.  Photograph by Dr. Robert Markus, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/oct/08/nikon-small-world-photomicrography-competition-2017-pictures  

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