This year with the help of our study group, I have come to know God
as Creator, Spirit, Word, Breath, more intimately. I grew up with the
image of God as an old man in the sky, like the image on the Sistine
Chapel ceiling. But the Spirit dwells with us and in us and infuses us
with love. Father Tom’s reminder that God is in the space between
us has come to have a great deal of meaning because of this awareness.
A friend posted a thought-provoking meditation on Facebook recently called Seeking God:
If a man sets out on a journey to search for the tip of his own nose, his first step betrays his total blindness as to what he seeks. God is everywhere and is therefore never in a particular place that is other than where we happen to be at each moment. Therefore we do not need to leave the point where we are and seek God’s presence somewhere else. James Finley (Source: Merton's Palace of Nowhere)
My hope for Lent and the rest of time is to live with this awareness - moment by moment - and to meet friends, neighbors and strangers with the same love that we are infused with by the Spirit.
Carole Kimmel
A friend posted a thought-provoking meditation on Facebook recently called Seeking God:
If a man sets out on a journey to search for the tip of his own nose, his first step betrays his total blindness as to what he seeks. God is everywhere and is therefore never in a particular place that is other than where we happen to be at each moment. Therefore we do not need to leave the point where we are and seek God’s presence somewhere else. James Finley (Source: Merton's Palace of Nowhere)
My hope for Lent and the rest of time is to live with this awareness - moment by moment - and to meet friends, neighbors and strangers with the same love that we are infused with by the Spirit.
Carole Kimmel
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