Sweetness 2- BCP

"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths."
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more;
but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees,

I must admit I am not happy. I had this great reflection on the first four lines of Micah. It was lost while attempting a spell check. ARRGGGGGG!!!! I reflected on Rowan Williams and his use of Richard Hooker. RW discusses in his last article on Hooker that Hooker while upholding Scripture was not, unlike his opponents the Puritans, bound to believe that Scripture was the only way to know the mind of God. Hooker upholds the idea, which struck me like a ton of bricks the first time I read it, that while we go to the Bible and read the witnesses of the Bible, we often lose sight of the fact that all the hero's of the Bible did not have a Bible. They had God and as Micah reveals, God is present to us here and now and can be sought. Micah reveals a witness and understanding that can shake the boots of any of us who tend to live in the illusion that I am here and God is in some high and distant place. Micah suggests not only are God's ways open to us but that God himself is close enough to teach us if we are willing.