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.

Friday, 3 February 2012

From Fire by Fire

Time to elaborate on the cheerful bit. One thing we can be sure of (but seldom are): what is broken and torn apart has to be broken and torn apart. God doesn’t cut off our lives anything but garbage, dead leaves, dysfunctional limbs. Anything that can not stand the light of His reality is not worthy of our attention, let alone our attachment. Good riddance! Go ahead, Lord, and make us a good bonfire with this stuff. Nothing of real value will be burnt, no real connection will ever be lost, however painful and scary it might feel; just the old dirty clothes, which anyway are not our size anymore.
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  1. Rijselman11 February 2012 at 15:36

    very true...sometimes we might just need 112 Pompiers at hand though;-)

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