Sail Away Sweet Sister

This is all about God, prayer, community, music, art, poetry, theology, love and all sorts of things people run into on their life journey, especially when the second half of life is looming ahead. It is inspired by Fr Richard Rohr, by the Contemplative Outreach of Fr Thomas Keating, by C.G. Jung, by C.S. Lewis, Alan Watts, St Beuno's retreat house and all the communities I have a privilege to belong to. It is dedicated to and I hope will be used by my nearest and dearest, scattered all over the planet, and who are falling upwards with me.

Thursday, 22 December 2011

Go and catch a falling star...

Feel so strange. Almost detached, powerfully recollected, withdrawn in my heart. It just seems to become deeper and deeper, it feels like gazing into a bottomless well, into a life rich, exuberant, alien, yet known to my heart even before I knew I had a heart. Becomes too dazzling for me to behold... Feel suspended. Feel like I'd better go and mind my business while Powers are sorting this out.

We are not the same people who left the station... We are struggling to sit still while our compulsions and fears make us jerk and convulse. To give any meaningful response to the reality, we must learn to sit still; before acting or reacting, simply  pause and accept what there is: take it in, drink our cup, taste it. Otherwise our jerking compulsions will be responding for us; and not to any objective reality, but to the imaginary hellish world they created for us.


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