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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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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.
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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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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.