(It is hard looking into the losses of 2020. It can feel like God watches only from afar. Below is an image I experienced as a psalm was read outloud. It reminds me of God’s life that is ours even in this year. My hope? You experience something more speaking to you, too...’cause God is like that.)

Worlds twirling and brimming with life

Fully pregnant with possibility and promise

Breath surrounding the stars showering life through the galaxies.

All contained flowing in and through God.

God, the one that did not break away to watch

No,

God the one that intimately made and is closely making

Things never finished, kissed with the everlasting

Always teeming with life and breath

He holds Jupiter up His sleeve and the moons in His palm

Earth spinning with breath in being made and remade

Experiencing birth again and again

I AM, not a noun but an everlasting, living filled with life

Some say, each day born closer to death

NO

Each day breathes closer into God’s unfurling life

Inhaling and exhaling, life and love spinning together

Turning, twisting with future always ahead

And past behind as a remembrance

And NOW always filled with God’s breath and life

God who does not let go, always at work

Connected, living and breathing into life

God the one who did not abandon

Continually breathing freshness in the depths

Skating surfaces with joy and care

God did not abandon but continues to hold all near.

--Dianne