Sunday, July 12: Keeping Vigil

I am being called to keep vigil by posting to these weekly meditations what God is doing in my life. I need “to hold a tenacious refusal to medicate, distract or isolate” myself from the world’s suffering as well as my own. I know these paths well from my past: to medicate and numb my fears, distract myself that nothing is wrong, withdraw and ignore.

And it is also through these reflections I can encounter other travelers and reveal the world is still beautiful. I stepped out onto my back porch this afternoon to watch an approaching thunderstorm roll in. I thanked God for the gloriously cooler breeze, for the sorely needed water, for the beauty of the storm and of its passing. Uphold each other in love – “because your love makes it so.”

Alita – surrounding you in prayer. linda<3

Sunday, July 5: Count the Cost

If these past several months of pandemic isolation and reimagining a new normal have shown me is that nothing is worth holding on to that tightly. Even Father Keating taught not to hold tightly but allow God to place in my hands what God wills when God wills. I am in a liminal space: healing from a toxic work environment, forgiving and loving those who persecuted me. Now, new horizons beckon. I will remain as open as I can be, ready to descend all the way down and abide in the unknowing. Are we not abiding in unknowing already? linda<3

Sunday, June 28: “Following Christ is not a magic carpet to bliss.” – Thomas Keating

I have experienced to openness to something beyond. This openness sustained me during years of difficult work situations. This openness nurtured me during moves from SC, to FL, to NM, back to SC and on now to TN. I know it is God’s grace alone by which I write this reflection. Will continued response to this call mean taking up a cross? It could, but currently it has not been revealed. God’s time will determine how long and when.  linda <3

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