Grace is about forgiveness, being able to forgive yourself for the things that have happened in the past so that you can learn from them and let go of them as you move forward into the future with hope. It’s also about being able to forgive others who have hurt you in the past rather than holding on to the hurt and bitterness that causes.
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Father Mychal Judge was a little-known Franciscan friar ministering humbly to the disenfranchised and unloved on the streets of New York City… until September 11, 2001, when he suddenly became a global figure. As chaplain to the city’s Fire Department, he rushed to help first responders at the World Trade Center but was killed by falling masonry in the North Tower.
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How our attention drawn to the changes and developments that are happening in and around us in the world and our reaction to this takes many forms. When we think about the ‘now’ and what the Government, the media, the neighbours, the grapevine tells us. What do we listen to? What do we believe?
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It is said that two things define us: our patience when we have nothing and our attitude when we have everything.
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Work and rest go hand in hand. Rest is necessary to work, and indeed these can be seen as the opposite ends of a pendulum swing. To have these in harmony and balance, works well as too much of either and the pendulum slows and eventually stops.
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Soul is often the word that we use to describe our innermost being. The part of ourselves that we hold to be the most precious and authentic. Yet how many of us have the kind of self-awareness that enables us to recognise and own the characteristics of this most private, personal, hidden part of ourselves?
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Whatever our experiences of lockdown, we are all now being asked, in one way or another, to re-emerge. We are all in a period of transition, a period of birth. And the world we are coming back into is not the same as the one we left. What might help us in these uncertain times?
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A lot of people are struggling with an insecurity in the present times, one person I know called it “the unknowing of now”. Security though is not enough in itself. A child feels secure when a parent holds their hand, but it is the trust that they have in the adult that glues all experience together.
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Patience when we have nothing is not about accepting that is our lot in life, it’s about being able to live in the moment enough to enjoy simple pleasures and having confidence that society has enough fairness to allow us these.
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As I painted, I was aware that my efforts had an effect on my neighbour (however small), or in this case, her fence. How true this is in life, also. The seemingly small things that we do can have far reaching consequences for others.
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Rather than clinging onto things, which give me comfort and security, I have been seeing whether I am able to surrender in trust, letting go of things I think I can’t do without.
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This morning I made a conscious effort to see things, as often we look without seeing. We take things for granted. We expect things to be there.
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There are times in all our lives when we feel ‘stuck’ or as though we are in between space or times, a liminal space where we sit and wait and find it hard to define ourselves and recognise our identity
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Hope means the certain expectation of something you don't have yet, but you will have in the future because it's been promised by God.
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I imagine that as part of finding our way through this time of confinement, many of us are taking comfort in TV programmes and films of one kind or another.
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Learning to sit quietly in stillness is at the heart of pretty much any form of spiritual practice. The busyness of life leaves little time for stillness and resting in God’s presence, or for those who don’t believe in God, simply resting, healing the heart and soothing the mind.
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