Divine disruption

The divine is that power which disrupts everything; it is at heart a great mystery at work.  What if our pilgrimage courted holy disruption?  What if we welcomed in everything that challenges our perspectives on how the world works, which upsets all the plans we made for ourselves and turns them on their heads?  What if we embraced the unknow as sacred wisdom for the unfolding of our lives?

          Matthew Fox

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The Sacred is about change

Always, always, doing a new thing!

Never leaving us where we are (thankfully) but always

moving us higher, higher.

 

We often struggle with change.

Change is risky, and thus scary.

Change requires us to be open and vulnerable.

 

When we have learned our whole lives that the one

who dies with the most toys wins,

it is difficult to face a world where that ideology is being challenged.

 

When we have learned that one must always win, must always dominate,

it is difficult to move into that place of humble servitude.

 

When we have embrace unrestrained consumerism, and believed

that if we want it we should have it, learning that there may be limits

to what the earth can provide is a struggle.

 

When we have bought into the superiority of our race, or our party,

it is painful to realize that maybe we are not a great as we thought we were.

That maybe, just maybe (for example) America is not exceptional, but merely

just another nation.  And one with some pretty outcome measures at that!

 

So we tend to hug the familiar to ourselves

We cling to old ideologies, and old ways of seeing God and seeing ourselves.

 

Then along comes Sacred

Along comes wind and fire (we understand those forces all too well)

create holy disruption.

 

Boom!

 

Why are so many resisting vaccines?

Because it has been framed as a challenge to their old framework

of personal freedom.

 

But God comes to us, with our toxic attachment to freedom and says,

“be a servant”

 

Why are so many willing to do anything to maintain political power?

Because of a toxic ideology of domination.

 

But God comes to us and says “The one who would be first must be last.”

 

It happens over and over again.  The divine, coming and disrupting everything

Breaking us open and pouring us out, asking us to make space for all kinds of uncomfortable feelings, such as strangeness and loss.  Asking us to be vulnerable and risk.  Asking us to trust Sacred Presence

 

Asking us to change

 

and walk through the unexpected and unknown

into newness