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Contemplatives |
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Suzanne writes ... difficult to accept... The
Divine is
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In the
transformation process, we want to hold on to 'what is' so badly that
it is so difficult to let go and be free. Our hectic lives are what we know so well and as bad as it is at times, it is 'safe' and 'known' and less freighting than the unknown. Mystery is not something that we embrace with ease or willingness even when it brings freedom. Contemplative practice for someone in the market place is embraced with much pain and suffering through the darkest of nights and the emptiness of anything that is known during the day. To center in prayer, to center in pondering, and to center in our own being, is difficult. What makes this difficulty so strange is that it is filled with mystery of the call to this place of emptiness and unknowing. We cannot live without being in pain, not being in this place of darkness, and being (what is seemingly) alone. It is only in living the contemplative way of life 'in the monastery or in the market place' that will live at the cutting edge of life itself and cross over to a transforming way of being a new creation risen with the Lord in the daily struggles of life to a freedom of being centered in the Lord. .... is this not what Lent is all about 'living our lives with Christ in the 21st Century as Christ lived in the 1st Century -- The dark 40 days, discerning when to go to Jerusalem, the grace of the Last Supper, loneliness after the Last Supper, the cutting edge of Good Friday, the forever waiting in the unknown of the Tomb, and the freedom of the empty Tomb on Easter Morn! |
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