Possible

 

Antiphons, short sentence prayers that you can memorize and carry with you, need not only come from scripture.  One example is from the poet Emily Dickinson and is a wonderful follow-up to yesterday’s antiphon concerning feeling trapped.  Dickinson once wrote, “I dwell in possibility.”  Now, if you really want a scriptural parallel it could be Mark 10:27, “With God all things are possible”.  But I like Dickinson’s wording because it tells me where I want to be rooted and reside, in the possibility.  To be sure, this is not the same as predictability.  Possibility is about openness and curiosity rather than feeling trapped.  Possibility is about lifting my gaze to notice what is around me.  Possibility says that what I am facing right now is not the final word from our still creating and composing God.  Possibility invites creativity, what will I do with this hodge podge of items (words, feelings, experiences, encounters) I carry around in the luggage of my life?  What can God and I create?  Can I turn this into a group project with others?  Can together we compose a new song, a new painting, a new moment from these leftover remnants of our life? 

 

I dwell in possibility ~ says I don’t know the ending of the story.  I don’t know everything.  I remain nimble and humble to God’s movement in my life.  Jeremiah talked about God as a potter gently molding our lives with grace and love.  How do you sense God’s presence?  Where is God nudging you right now?  What does it look like, feel like, smell like, taste like, to live your life in the possibility of the Holy?  May these questions stir within you this day and throughout the days to come.  Amen.