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- Sunday March 5: Look Twice
To Practice
- The disciples looked, heard and retreated in fear from the unknown. When touched by love, and invited to look again, they were able to witness Christ. Where are you being called to ‘look twice’ to find the love that dances at the heart of things?
- You may wish to listen to the lyrics and music of the Waterboys song ‘The Christ in You’ and see what stirs in you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGKX6ApanFs
You may reread the full email reflection here: https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/word-of-the-week-march5
“They saw only Jesus”. Yet the apostles carried that moment of divine presence as they accompanied Jesus down the mountain and into daily life. There are times in our communal silence when we become aware of a Presence that we often fail to notice in the day to day. However, like the apostles, we are invited to recognize that Presence among us – not as something to cling to, but as something that gives us the grace to see that Presence in all creation, in the ordinary moments of our lives.
Sunday March 5: Look Twice
Where am I being called to “look twice” to find the love that dances at the heart of all things? When hurt or afraid I retreat to my heart. Bold and adventurous live in the mind. Can my centering prayer practice make dance partners of fear and boldness, following God’s lead as the Primary Partner? Can an adventuresome love help me dance with my hurts and see God in all things? I will take this image of ternion dancing with me this week in my sits. <3 linda
That place between the intellect and the heart is that “look twice” place of “listen to the one I love”. Sitting quietly following a huge evacuation time I am becoming more aware of the vast number I am invited to embrace and listen to in my day to day life, those I am being pointed to on the periphery where I am most at home and I quietly receive as the living Eucharist, and here I dwell…. in a prolonged A–M—E——N
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