ALIGNMENT. After an hour or so working in the garden,
it’s amazing how positive one’s thoughts become!
A benign approach to pressing issues emerges and clarity blooms.
Walking along the shore or hiking a wild life trail, body and mind align and the spirit soars through.
We sense being on a higher plane, receptive and listening.
Our body, soul, spirit ALIGNMENT engages us with God’s spirit
Alignment with God positions us to listen, with ears to hear.
THE FAMILIAR. Is ‘God contact’ always significant and ominous?
Out of the blue?
In our walk with God, being in the presence, in God space,
we have continuing familiar companionship, beyond words,
based on grace before meals, thanks for blessings, our prayers.
This ongoing sense of familiar presence is the foundation for receiving word from God in challenging times.
Prophets of old, saints and mystics like Elijah and Teresa, heard dramatic utterances from God - but this was in addition to daily, familiar communication.
Our familiar relationship with God prepares us for further Word,
For more to come, for what may come.
(FAMILIAR does not preclude being led into the UNFAMILIAR to perceive and communicate with Holy Being, a different pilgrimage)
ALERTNESS. The silence of God is not uncommunicative.
We listen to God’s silence, being in stillness, at the heart of it all.
In the ‘chat’ mode of today’s world, we expect immediate response.
Divine response – our perception of that – may not be immediate.
Waiting before God, listening, takes us out of our time warp.
BUT here in time, in the everyday, to friends, in worship
to animate and inanimate, our whole being needs to be ALERT to recognize God speaking to us. God is close.
O Lord, May we align with you, one hand reaching to the infinite and the other rooted to the earth and so be open to you.
Lilias Morrison
it’s amazing how positive one’s thoughts become!
A benign approach to pressing issues emerges and clarity blooms.
Walking along the shore or hiking a wild life trail, body and mind align and the spirit soars through.
We sense being on a higher plane, receptive and listening.
Our body, soul, spirit ALIGNMENT engages us with God’s spirit
Alignment with God positions us to listen, with ears to hear.
THE FAMILIAR. Is ‘God contact’ always significant and ominous?
Out of the blue?
In our walk with God, being in the presence, in God space,
we have continuing familiar companionship, beyond words,
based on grace before meals, thanks for blessings, our prayers.
This ongoing sense of familiar presence is the foundation for receiving word from God in challenging times.
Prophets of old, saints and mystics like Elijah and Teresa, heard dramatic utterances from God - but this was in addition to daily, familiar communication.
Our familiar relationship with God prepares us for further Word,
For more to come, for what may come.
(FAMILIAR does not preclude being led into the UNFAMILIAR to perceive and communicate with Holy Being, a different pilgrimage)
ALERTNESS. The silence of God is not uncommunicative.
We listen to God’s silence, being in stillness, at the heart of it all.
In the ‘chat’ mode of today’s world, we expect immediate response.
Divine response – our perception of that – may not be immediate.
Waiting before God, listening, takes us out of our time warp.
BUT here in time, in the everyday, to friends, in worship
to animate and inanimate, our whole being needs to be ALERT to recognize God speaking to us. God is close.
O Lord, May we align with you, one hand reaching to the infinite and the other rooted to the earth and so be open to you.
Lilias Morrison
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