Blog : 1205 Fire (December 5, 2021)

The exotic draw of fire and dance brought a crowd to Vida [short for Vida Cocina Creativa (Creative Kitchen Life), a restaurant on the shore of Lake Atitlan in the village of San Marcos La Laguna]. As the first showing ended, the dancer "ate" each flaming torch from his fire fans. The word pictures are so rich for me.

We watch in awe as others face flames. We applaud.

We are entertained by the years they invest.

We avoid our own fire.

We are timid to burn.

We turn our faces from blinding brightness.

But what if we didn't?

It brought a scripture to mind:

Isaiah 6:6-8 New Living Translation

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.

7 He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”

8 Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”

I said, “Here I am. Send me.”

What if we let truth burn so deep that we yielded our earth-life to its holy fire?

What if we communed with God in a place of flames -- passion, purity, and release?

What if we gazed into His brightness and took it as our own?

Then we would have something to say.