Chestertonian Musings to Boot

Tuesday of Holy Week

Isaiah 49:1-6

Psalm 71

The ‘womb’ takes center stage in the reading from Isaiah:

You called me from birth,

from my mother’s womb

you gave me my name.

Giving a name means giving life and grounding and direction

From the start I am tethered to my God…the one who made me

I was formed as his servant from the womb.

In that womb space, that space of creativity and safety,

I was purposefully knitted together

Where I see flaw God sees beauty

And Psalm 71:6 seems to be the response:

From my mother’s womb you are my strength.

Add this from Chesterton:

Perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. 

It is possible that God says every morning,

“Do it again” to the sun;

and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. 

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike;

it may be that God makes every daisy separately,

but has never gotten tired of making them. 

It may be that God has the eternal appetite of infancy.

                                    -from Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let me remember this week

Let me not complicate matters

I pray