… watching for the brushstrokes of God
“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.” ~ C.S.Lewis
How do you come in out of the wind?
It takes practices to notice the strength of light and shadow that gives things their form and shape, to pay attention so you can touch the mystery that is being revealed in everyday life.
How do you pay attention to the quality of light and shadow?
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness. ~ David Steindl-Rast
How alive are you?
“When we celebrate the Sabbath we adore precisely something we do not see. … To name it queen, to call it bride is merely to allude to the fact that it’s spirit is a reality we meet rather than an empty span of time which we choose to set aside for comfort or recuperation.” ~ Abraham Heschel
How do we shift from setting aside to meeting?
There are times when I know what I know. Then there are times when I know what I don’t know. And then there are times where I don’t know what I don’t know, when I am floating along unaware of my ignorance.
How do you grow in awareness of your unawareness?
We came back to the lake one evening for some night-time kayaking. There is something about being out on the water…fish jumping, frogs croaking, encircled by the deep darkness of the trees, wrapped in the cloak of darkness, infinitely small under the vastness of the stars. It was what Karla Kincannon calls “a holy moment, an encounter with the Divine that pulsates within the circadian rhythms found in all creation.”
Where have you found a holy moment? How do you build spaces into your regular rhythm to be surprised by the holy?
With the Eyes of the Heart 