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FEBRUARY 12<br />
“Thy kingdom come…” (Mt 6:10)<br />
WHOSE KINGDOM?<br />
As far as “kingdoms” go, I have a variety of choices today, as to which<br />
one I will inhabit. I can choose to play “king” myself, trying to control<br />
everyone and everything around me. Or I can make some other person or<br />
some other thing my supreme authority, and then depend on this person<br />
or thing, so it/they determine my actions, aspirations, mood, and so on.<br />
But I know, at this point in my life, that both these options lead down<br />
an unhappy road; a road of either lonely self-reliance, or burdensome<br />
dependency.<br />
I’m grateful today for the various reminders, beginning with the Our<br />
Father, of the Kingdom I’m called (yet not compelled) to embrace, in<br />
freedom: “Thy kingdom”; God’s kingdom. I affirm this choice also at the<br />
beginning of every Divine Liturgy: The priest proclaims, “Blessed is the<br />
Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever<br />
and unto the ages of ages,” and I sing, “Amen!”<br />
I re-affirm that “Amen” this morning, saying “Thy kingdom come,” with<br />
its own laws, centering in the Cross. It has its own priorities and “logic,”<br />
from the Logos. Let Him be my King today. “For Thine is the kingdom<br />
and the power and the glory, of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy<br />
Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.” Amen!<br />
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