ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS
October 29, 2022
Coretta Scott King wrote, “When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow…” Though the quote will not be included in my sermon tomorrow, it almost was. I like the quote, even though I don’t know if it is necessarily true every day. There are those times when no matter how right the heart is, if the body is in bad shape, the pain or discomfort of the body overshadows the right heart. I know there are many of you who quite well understand that kind of physical pain. I also believe it is true with the mind. There are times when mental anguish eclipses anything positive in other aspects of our lives.
So you’re thinking to yourself, “Why did Bruce even include this quote?” Despite my two rather significant reservations in regard to King’s words, I still sort of believe them. Is that odd? Maybe… yet I find these moments of grace where everything is alright even when it is not. It’s as if something is righting those parts of me that are not currently right by affirming that there is, even when certain aspects of life are not good, something right about me. Whatever it is—maybe the whisper of God—I think it is true for all of us. So maybe Coretta Scott King was right.
Whatever else is happening in my life, Lord God, I believe you to be the One who speaks words of affirmation through which I am gently brought into that holy rightness. Amen.
