At The Edge
Edges are the places where we are pushed to either recognize that we are out of our depth and our strength is dismantled or they are places where we stare into an unknown with little understanding of how to go forward.
What I have come to learn, however, is that no matter how I grit my teeth against the edges I experience in life the edges are necessary. Why?
to return
What I have learned over the years is that there are places that help us return to our life with the Divine, with ourselves, and with others.
They might be beaches on islands far away. But they don’t have to be.
It might be a humble hermitage where we go for a day. But maybe not.
A specific chair in our home, during a specific time of the day when all is still, and a cup of coffee may be all we need.
The point isn’t where the “return” happens, but that it happens.
The Cross, A Space
Holy week is about a great many things, but most importantly it is about the hope within a hospitality of suffering. It is the place where we bring the ache of flesh and share that experience with a crucified Christ.
Regardless of whether we caused the suffering or it was inflicted on us, there is a table set for us to share these death rattles with One who is “well acquainted with grief.”
Lost in manhattan
The word “lost” in Christian circles is often used as a descriptor of a group or a type of person, particularly an irreligious person. But if we’re honest, both religious and irreligious people get good and lost all the time.
I do appreciate the sentiment of the words “lost people matter to God” but the sentiment makes little sense when we realize we all get lost sometimes.
Wonder and An Irish Public Restroom
The world is wider than we could imagine, in ways we can’t imagine. If we are brave enough to wonder at the difference, rather than condemn it, something opens in our souls.
We find greater wonder within us when we see that our familiar spaces do not contain the whole of the world.
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