Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of life…… are
there so you can break through to the eternal.
Spirituality is about opening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can
see what’s always happening right in front of you.
Just ask the Lord to ready your heart…..
Don’t try to build your own door…
Don’t even go search for the door you’re supposed
to go through
Just ask that when the door shows itself, you’ll
have the eyes to recognize it and the courage to walk through it.
Richard Rohr
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There they sit
scattered across my desk
books
books about God
books about life
about relationships
ah if one could only read one’s way
into knowledge of God
and joy
yes, into life itself
one can know about God
through books
through personal practices
but one cannot know God that way
God comes in the daily grind
in the unexpected
like a thief in the night
catching us unawares
Jesus always taught using
the common
making God present in the
daily things of life
oxen, vineyards, people working in the fields
ah, yes,
sheep
always those sheep
so too with us
God becomes present to us
in the midst of our days…..
in a smile
a bird on the wing
a song
in the rising and setting of the sun
in fresh snow on the mountain
surprise!
Hi! I’m
God!
and so too, is how we find our way
by surprise
suddenly there it is
right in front of
(if we have eyes that see, that are ready to see)
a door
the door
through which we are invited
to step
into God’s new thing
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Isaiah 43
“Forget the former things;
do not
dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it
springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and
streams in the wasteland.
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