Words of Light and Hope from Tony Hawes

Words of Light and Hope from Tony Hawes.

Who Is The Person Sitting Next To You? – Part 1.

Look around you brethren – look around you. Who is the person sitting next to you?

The person next to you is the greatest miracle and the greatest mystery you will ever meet at this moment. A testament of Word made Flesh, of God’s continuing Advent into the world, into our midst. The person next to you is an inexhaustible reservoir of possibility, with potentialities which have been only partially touched off …

The person next to you is a unique universe of experience, seething with necessity and possibility, dread and desire, smiles and frowns, laughter and tears, fears and hopes, all struggling to find expression. The person next to you is surging to become something in particular. To arrive at some destination, to have a story, and a song, to be known and to know. The   person next to you believes in something, something precious, stands for something, counts for something, lives for something, labours for something, waits for something, runs towards something ………

(to be continued.)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow,                                                                                                                                                      Praise Him, all creatures here below,                                                                                                                                                              Praise Him above, you heavenly host,                                                                                                                                                              Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen.