Saturday Night Reflection

One of the more interesting - and different - books I have read in the last few years is the collection of writings by former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold entitled Markings.

Thinking about the selection from the Book of Jonah as one of tomorrow's lectionary readings, I remembered this piece from the book:

To love life and men as God loves them - for the sake of
their infinite possibilites

to wait like Him,
to judge like Him
without passing judgement,
to obey the order when it is given
and never look back -
then He can use you - then, perhaps, He will use you.

And if he doesn't use you - what matter. In His hand, every moment has its meaning, its greatness, its glory, its peace, its co-herence.

From this perspective, to "believe in God" is to believe in yourself, as self-evident, as "illogical," and as the impossible to explain: if I can be, then God is.