What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes?
Carl Jung
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22 Saturday Jul 2023
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22 Saturday Jul 2023
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30 Thursday Jun 2022
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Nothing new to the title you might say because death has been described as a journey. After all, we whisper “have a good journey” to the dead.
This morning I thought of this new journey as if we are onto something -a new milestone, a new event in our life. The newly dead meet strangers on that same journey. Those strangers might become good friends, or enemies, or competitors vying for God’s attention (?). In that journey, hopefully, we’d bring along our learnings from this life so as to live a better version of ourselves in the afterlife; that is, if we haven’t been transformed much in this earthly life.
Talking about the afterlife, my Christian sisters and brothers might think I have ditched my faith to believe in reincarnation. Well, not necessarily so. The afterlife could be heaven with God but because of who we are, we continue the process of transformation with and in God.
🤔 #foodforthought
05 Thursday Dec 2019
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.~ Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, Essential Rumi
In this season of Advent, I am reminded to stay awake and to watch attentively. Amen.
29 Tuesday May 2018
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Source: “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri J. M. Nouwen –
My daily hour with God is not a time of deep prayer in which I contemplate the divine mysteries or feel a special closeness to God. On the contrary, it is full of distractions, inner restlessness, confusion and boredom. It seldom, if ever, pleases my senses. Even though I do not feel God’s love the way I feel a human embrace, even though I do not hear a voice as I hear human words of consolation, even though I do not see a smile like I see a human face, still the Lord speaks to me, looks at me, and embraces me there. The way I become aware of God’s presence is in that remarkable desire to return to that quiet place and be there without any real satisfaction.”
– emphasis in quote mine.
Prayer may be dry. I may even feel guilty that I am not praying “well” but I shall not give up. If another day I feel I ought to pray, then perhaps I should begin my prayer time with thankful heart. I should thank God’s Spirit for calling me to prayer. I could ask for grace to trust that God is with me even if I seem miles away.