A Multiverse of Dazzling Hope

Friday, March 4, 2022

An Amazon Rainforest Orchid Bee

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INVOCATION

With our whole hearts, with our whole life, and with our innermost being, we bow in wonder and love before you. Love and wonder are the keys to your door of hope – Spirit, welcome. 

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EPIPHANY

“Hundreds of New Creepy Crawlies Found High in the Amazon,“
by Rachael Bade, National Geographic Newsletter

Don’t look up? It turns out, entomologists historically didn’t do it much, concentrating mainly on the ground instead. But when researchers in the Brazilian rainforest decided to turn their focus skyward, they discovered an ecosystem in the trees unlike anything they ever expected. 

There are hundreds of new species. So many they haven’t yet figured out the exact number. Some are so weird the scientists couldn’t even guess what genus they belong to. But the thing they’re especially excited about is how much the types of insects at a hundred feet off the ground vary from the types found at 80 feet off the ground, and 50 feet, and so on, Natasha Daly writes. This kind of vertical study in a rainforest is rare, and now researchers have masses of new information that sheds light on life at various levels of the forest.

Friends, every single moment God is speaking, “Let there be light.” The Creator has purposely given us a dazzling multiverse of reasons to hope. 

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PRAYER 

God Who Knows No Divide 
Between Earth or Sky, 
Life or Death–
Nor Darkness or Light, 
God Who Stands
at the Beginning
and at the End of All Things–
Remind us to look down and up,
over and under, behind and around
and in-between the space of all things
to find your creation still unfolding. 

With each new unraveling,
may we be filled more awe,
and a more dazzling wonder
at all you touch that burns brightly

May it inspire within us 
a pressing urgency
to hope, knowing that 
there are a great
many things still unseen,
and wondrous mysteries –
yet to be discovered. 

Amen