Incarnate Divine LoveMarch 16, 2026

Incarnate Divine Love

Hope is an orientation of the spirit, and an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. – Vaclav Havel

If I rise on the winds of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand hole me fast. – Psalm 139: 9-10

In the new physics, we learn that our universe is engaged in a dynamic rhythm or “dance.” Chardin called it the Hymn of the Universe. It is a divine melody enticing each of us into our first breath and leading well beyond our last. Some days the melody is so clear it fills us with expectations. On others, we strain to hear it. Hope is the connection between our lives and the divine melody, an invitation to “dance with the divine.” Joan Chittister, OSB

As a birth doula, my first client was a woman of deep faith. As she prepared for her baby, Rachel told me that she tried to avoid the noisiness of our world. “My life has been difficult. I want something different for my baby. Perhaps, if she can hear God’s music as long as possible it will lead her into a better world.”

Hope is hearing that divine melody and daring to dance in the face of suffering. It anchors us somewhere beyond today and beckons us to recall that life-sustaining melody which makes possible our dreams. It is the virtue of prophets and martyrs and saints. Hope promises the imagination is where the divine dwells and that agony and despair are not the last word.

Living word, guide us into the melody that incarnates divine love into tour world. Amen.

Sister Mary Ellen Brinovec