'The spiritual journey is one of continually falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, looking lovingly and thankfuly to God, and taking another step'.
Aurobindo
Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. Maybe we sometimes look for love in all the wrong places. We look for the world to love us, when we were created by God to be God's beloved.
In his book 'Late Bloomers', Brendan Gill wrote about people who at whatever cost and under whatever circumstances have succeeded in finding themselves..to find oneself is to have been stumbling about in a dark wood and to have encountered there, unexpectedly and yet how welcomely, a second self, capable of leading one out into the safety of a sunny upland meadow. If the hour happens to be later than we may have wished, take heart! Sometimes a childhood once considered unremarkable is later revealed with fascinating incidents and people. So much cheriched is the bloom even if late. Many late bloomers were able to do the work they loved, to make a contibution, give nurturance and support. We have had our world as in our time, and if we relive it well in memory, it will bring us wisdom. We will come, each of us, to see our life as the whole that it is. Events that seemed random will show themselves to be parts of a coherent whole. Decisions that we were hardly aware of making will reveal themselves as significant choices, and we can honestly regret the poor ones and rejoice in the good ones. We can call up emotions that seemed devastating in their time, and recollect them in tranquility, forgiving others and ourselves. When we do this, we have truly had our world as in our time, and it is in our possession from that time on, giving us its gifts of wisdom and wholeness.
'Something More, Excavating your Authentic Self'
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Salam,
Cherine
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