- I really found our Sunday (01/10/16) speaker quite enlightening. I do have the “color blindness” she spoke of, though I value the great depth, contributions and uniqueness of other colors and cultures, I had no idea of the over all umbrella - that being upper hand geared toward white male America. Just a great enlightenment.
- Also, since adding a Spiritual director to my life recently, I find so much new depth in “be(ing) still and know that I am God.” I have always been a contemplative and prayerful individual and thus, this just helps the Holy Spirit and I move, connect and flow with greater ease.
- I find lately my noticing more and more the lack of the “true self” in a great chunk of today’s society. Seems all so caught up in we democrats, we republicans, we Christians, we Presbyterians…we this and we that and our traditions and our values. Yet, many struggle to self identify outside those things, even within those things actually. Identity found outside rather than within. Could be why I often find it hard to relate, as well as, a huge lack of interest to relate! I can generally relate to many who are in tune with their true selves or striving to be and think outside the conventional boxes.
- Additionally, over this past Advent season weaned myself out of the “care taker” or “peer councilor” role and am at a place of discernment. Broadening myself outside of church a bit, while remaining at the same time—my Spiritual, mental and sobriety needs are met amongst much of the prayerful quiet times I find there and the extracurricular groups, etc. However, I have steeped, like a tea bag, for a bit over three years and I am being called to “be still” while exploring my Disciple/Apostleship.
- Being I write, mainly Spirit filled poetry, prose, short essays, and pondering mantras…this may move me into an area where I can reach and engage people of my age or even younger, which is something that the churches struggle to do.
It feels like 2016 is a wilderness walk for me, outside
of normal, conventional methods of which I am familiar or accustomed. This
is all a very big change. I am excited and have no idea what to
expect—I am okay with that! The key "popping" piece right now is in; “be still and know that I am God.”
I see, feel and have been living still is not idle. Even when I was physically idle
with that awful upper respiratory cold at Christmas, that kept me still yet, not idle!
