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Francis loved that image of himself as a lute strung for rapture. He wanted to stand in the wind and let the Holy Spirit play upon him for all the world to hear the beauty of his music.
St. Francis and the Sultan’s meeting, centuries ago, has much to teach us.
Sometimes, we might feel a sort of separateness from God, as if God is far away, up in heaven, or just not here in our world in our daily life.
Francis sees peace and peacemaking as a way to make beautiful what war and violence have deformed.
Crossing borders and overcoming barriers, if done with love, also brings a new vision of reality that enables us to have reverence for everything that is.
In all creatures God is revealed to us: the beauty, the grandeur, the infinite variety, the individuality, and the mystery. That is what St. Francis saw and what he teaches us.
“Be it done to me according to your word.” So it was for Mary, so it can be for us who wait in silent prayer seemingly unable to do anything to change our circumstances.
