Coracle Trust E-Reflections

Lent: The gifts of life

Wednesday 16 March 2011

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time; The Gift Of The Spirit To All Who Believe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Read John 2:23-3:15 and return

Miracles

Birth is a miracle. Birth brings into being a new creation, where before none existed. Birth brings life where before there was non-existence. The Psalmist tells us

“Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.” (Psalm 139)

Our second birth is a miracle. We are a new creation. When we are born again, something new comes into being. We enter into a new life, which, being of the spirit, carries no threat of death. Birth and life are gifts of God, bestowed upon us without need or desert.

Flying on the breast of the wind

What does it mean to us to have this gift of life, both temporal and eternal? How shall we spend our days? What will be our legacy? Refreshed and invigorated by the wind of the Spirit, let us place our hands in hers; let us dance in the spiralling wind, soar in the life of the spirit; let us fly on the breast of the wind into new birth. Jane Denniston (Trustee)