Starter Prayer: "Jesus, are such experiences just about you or are they also about us? Do you want us to think higher of you or higher of ourselves because of you? Why do you take us along on such a journey at all?" (From Wondrous Encounters by Richard Rohr)
I enjoy the elusive nature of these questions. As long as the specific answer is hidden, I have the joy of looking one way, then the other. When I face Christ with my questions I can expand with the greatness that God promises I can be and do through Christ. I also can relax with an understanding that I am a minuscule dot in the pool of human potential.
I suppose it would be easier to just know, once and for all. What are you doing, gracious God, when you ignite life, including me, with magnificent inspiration, passion and enthusiasm? How are you with me when I fizzle out and plummet into error?
You are both clear and hidden. You lead directly and in secret. The more I realize that my being in you is magnificent, the more I seek you even when you are hidden.
This journey has the capacity to kill us. Only you can show us the way of life.
3 comments:
What do you mean this journey has the capacity to kill us? Confuse us, certainly, but kill us? Are you speaking metaphorically? I
Why do you say kill us? The journey confuses me, but does not kill me unless I give up trying to understand....
Gretchen Tucker
Fr. Rohr would say that it has the capacity to disintegrate our egoic self (the false self). It can feel like something that we have deemed precious (life giving) is being killed. There was a popular song years ago "Killing me softly with his love." Maybe that is how God's love works on this journey. Whe when we walk with Christ we are always dying in some way, but everything that dies is transformed to life and love in Christ.
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