Lent Meditation Day 22
“I have glorified my name, and will glorify it again,” God said out loud to Jesus (John 12:28).
A Note from Ruth
These meditations are a reflection of my personal journey through Lent at a time when I was experiencing deep spiritual growth and learning what it means to grow in community as a student at the Academy for Formation and Mission. In part, I wrote them to process my own thoughts, but mainly to share those contemplations, because I felt they were meant to be experienced by others. My hope was to encourage others to go deep, to see God and Lent with a new perspective, and to self-reflect in a way that brings hope.
I’ve never heard an audible voice from heaven. I have, however, heard God speak to my spirit in the form of thoughts, or through the glory of creation.
This afternoon I went out to enjoy the weather. I walked on the trails that weaved their way through the park, and I sat on a bench beneath the canopy of green trees and blue sky. I watched the ducks on the pond as they dipped their heads into the water.
I heard God’s voice. The internal one.
Peace, God said.
And joy.
When God said “I have glorified myself” God spoke of the life Jesus had lived, the healing, the love, the forgiveness, the inclusion, and yes, even the rebukes and provocative words. God was glorified in Jesus because Jesus lived to do the will of God.
When God said, “I will glorify my name again” God spoke of the beauty of the resurrected Christ that was to come, the eternal one.
Today God gave me the gift of the message of the resurrection. “There is so much more to come, and I am with you.”
Amen