I am the vine
November 9, 2025 § 1 Comment
A meditation in meeting for worship this morning. An “Afterthought”, I guess, though I did not share it.
In the gospel of John, Jesus says, “I am the vine, you are the branches.” (John 15:5) A passage the weekly Bible study that I moderate has been exploring.
When I try to feel inside myself this intimacy with the Spirit of Love and Life, it sometimes feels forced. When I try to feel the Sap of Life flowing into me from some holy Source beyond myself, or even within myself, when I try to open to its action within me, flowing through me to bring forth fruit in the world through my words and actions, I often feel like I’m trying to fake it until I make it.
But every once in a while, this faith and practice of inward attunement and at-one-ment with divine love and life does bear fruit, and its promise is fulfilled. I do feel divine love and life pouring through my spiritual veins, and I am alive with love and joy and gratitude.
Then my faith is renewed and my practice is strengthened in happy expectation.
Through the Flaming Sword 
The more i do the within easier it rises within. The more it rises within the more it connect with the outer with which we are surrounded.