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When the Presence that lives within us feels more like a black hole than a light, how do we trust it? This week I explore both Roberts and Metz on the terrifying grace of the unknown, and the quiet beckoning that can reshape a life from the inside out.
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This week’s reflection explores the facets of the holy, the art of naming our experience with clarity, and the gentle invitations that arise when we’re finally moving slowly enough to feel them.
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A contemplative reflection on Roberts’ teaching that God is the very source of existence. Explores how this Mystery exists us, how personality patterns obscure it, and how to return to a lived awareness of divine presence.
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And perhaps that’s where this ancient revelation can become most alive for us, in realizing that God-in-nature is not just in the forest or the sea but in the ordinary, changing landscapes of our lives. The sacred does not withdraw when we’re busy or burdened. It moves with us, within us, waiting for recognition.
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In her writings on Omnipresence, Roberts invites us beyond “God within” toward the deeper mystery that all things exist in God. What if there is only one thing happening, one divine life expressing itself through everything, including us? In this reflection, I explore Roberts’ luminous insight alongside Mary Oliver’s reminder that prayer begins in the ordinary, where every breath, stone, and silence becomes a doorway into the divine.
The Unfinished Self: Embrace Your Lifelong Project
Have you ever noticed how our world encourages constant acquiring, equating “more” with “better”? This belief shapes how we approach personal transformation as we often think it’s about gaining something new.
In reality, transformation is about letting go and discovering what is already within us. Rather than accumulating, transformation is the process of moving from doing to being, of uncovering our true nature.
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Yes, for today it is enough to just be with what is arising in my experience, whether that be grief, sadness, joy or delight. The journey is to be awake to it all and what a delight that we are granted such a gift. Today I am grateful for the opportunity to experience life fully. I do believe that is what Jesus meant by an abundant life.
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What this text invites me into is a continued journey towards clarity. For those of you who know the Enneagram you know that the Enneagram Nine can be diffuse and even foggy, not only in their thinking but in their expression of life. As a Nine, this is true for me, and I have practiced bringing more presence, thus more clarity, to conversations, events, and life so that I can actually discern what is happening and respond appropriately. It is a process, like learning a whole new skill set, but one that is very exciting when I remember to do it.
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The impact and invitation this has for me is to continue, like the Stoics, to practice releasing those passions, distractions, and thought patterns that cloud the center. Those mechanical, and dare I say even maniacal, ways of being that grab all my attention away from the center. These attention grabbers need to be seen through and dealt with. Some of these attention grabbers are easy to let go of while others are very difficult, so ingrained our habitual patterns are. For these tougher cases therapy, spiritual direction, or some help, care and compassion of another is needed in order for us to face and breathe through the release.
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This concept of the “eternally nameless” aligns with much of what Roberts has previously described concerning God and also echoes what the Christian mystics describe in their experience of Omnipresence. That alignment includes the notion that God (Tao) is not a thing but a what, something fundamental to the underpinnings of what we call life and the universe. I’ve heard it explained that similarities between all the great mystical faith traditions are like the spokes of a wheel. The farther out you are from the center the more differentiation you notice, both in practice and doctrine, but as you travel down the spokes towards the center you end up in much the same place. You end up with Love extending out in all directions.
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I’m in absolute agreement that people see It all the time. As she says, the simplicity of it seems so innate that we take for granted that which is a great seeing. I honestly believe that most everyone have had moments of transfixed seeing; the beauty of the sky speaking to you, the calming tranquility of the sea’s presence, a baby’s innocence melting your heart, morning bird song preparing you for the day. We know in those moments something revelatory is occurring even though we can’t say exactly what is occurring.
