I’m back at the cottage with renewed time and space for thinking, for praying, for sitting in the mystery. I never know what will come along for me to ponder. Today it goes something like this. What it is for each person that anchors his/her bliss? For me it's solitude or to be more precise, it’s being alone. For others it might be something musical, a sport, following politics, a craft. I think of Mary Oliver writing poetry and I am also reminded of Howard Gardner’s ‘Multiple Intelligences’. These blisses may vary as we try different things and as our life changes, but I think that we are born with the seed of whatever it is, and then at some point, with God’s grace, we settle into that one thing that grounds us.
Ultimately, I believe this is about our path to God, a path that is both universal and particular. Universal in a very general way of understanding. For example, those of you reading this most likely have some idea of what I’m talking about. Particular, in that we each need to find our own language to express it. Here are a few of mine: being with God, resting in God, at-one-ment (atonement).
I am still wrestling with this, particularly because I am sadly aware that some people never find their bliss, never get settled, but instead remain in a state of anxiety, discontentment and depression about their life. Can that be part of God’s way? Or is it just the luck of the draw? Or…?
Ultimately, I believe this is about our path to God, a path that is both universal and particular. Universal in a very general way of understanding. For example, those of you reading this most likely have some idea of what I’m talking about. Particular, in that we each need to find our own language to express it. Here are a few of mine: being with God, resting in God, at-one-ment (atonement).
I am still wrestling with this, particularly because I am sadly aware that some people never find their bliss, never get settled, but instead remain in a state of anxiety, discontentment and depression about their life. Can that be part of God’s way? Or is it just the luck of the draw? Or…?
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