It's Halloween!
Time to ponder the costumes we don the rest of the year
when we dress and outfit ourselves
to be someone or something we're not
- or to hide the persons we are...
Some of our costumes hang in our closets,
our day-to-day clothing, worn
to make ourselves more attractive,
to conceal or highlight the shape we're in,
to show how we're up with the times
or to distance ourselves from trends and fads...
But you, Lord, care little
for style, couture, color and cut,
old or new, hot or not,
designer label or off the rack...
You look instead to our hearts
and are pleased to find them naked:
exposed to your gentle, healing touch,
laid bare and open for you to swaddle
in kindness, compassion and love...
As St. Paul reminds us:
Clothe ourselves in heartfelt mercy:
put on the garments of gentleness,
of humility and patience...
Strip me of all my pretense, Lord,
my desire to be who I'm not;
make me content to be and become
the person you made in your image...
Clothe me in peace and outfit me, Lord,
for the work that's mine to do;
robe my heart in a garment of love
and garb me in grace and peace...
(This song and the text above come from Colossians 3:12-17)
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Because You Are Chosen by John Michael Talbot
Because you are chosen
Called to be holy
Because you are the Lord’s beloved
You must clothe yourself with kindness
With heartfelt mercy
In the meekness of humility
So bear you now with one another
And forgive as the Lord’s forgiven you
Over all these virtues
Bind them all together
In the Love of our Lord Jesus
Over all these virtues
Bind them all together
In the Love of our Lord Jesus
Over all these virtues
Bind them all together
In the Love of our Lord Jesus
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