What do you do with a flower?

Does your scientific curiosity overwhelm you, and one by one you remove each petal, making note of stem and the stamen, in a quest to truly understand the beauty before you?

Or does your sense of wonder get the best of you as you gasp in admiration of its beauty, finding the perfect vase then the perfect place to set this wondrous item to further your sense of sacred respect and awe at what is before you?

It is in this latter tradition that the Magi from the East teach us as they come not to interrogate or dissect the manger scene before them, but to bow down in adoration and worship of the beauty they have discovered.

What a mystical story this is! 

The magi, from where we get the word magic, pin their hopes on a star, pack their bags to go God-knows-where, and are rewarded for following their intuition, their inner conviction, they're innate, God-given senses, by making the greatest discovery in the world.

Here is where you and I are prompted to do the same - to take that word in our heart, that inner voice, that intuition, and to go for it. Trust it. Take action on it.  Get up and go, as the old preacher says, ‘God can’t steer a parked car.’ 

What does that mean to you? Where’s the hesitation in your life? What are you waiting for?

Ours is a religion of faith and action - so let us trust, let us follow as the Magi did, believing that something truly incredible awaits us.