Powerful readings today. I loved the abstract painting capturing the darkness of the “squirrel cage.” Amazingly the sunlight coming through my window today formed a similar abstract but in sunlight reminding me how the squirrel cage can turn from darkness to sunlight. I took a picture of it, but don’t see a way of attaching it here. Last week God picks the apostles for Jesus. This week He calls the fishers of Mankind. All the voices of God come in silence. Not so those that God sends into our lives, like Fr. Thomas Keating. One has to love his comment of fasting monks under the table instead of drinking our buddies under the table. The switch from a dark cage to a cage opened with sunlight. Jonah is tested. We are all tested. Even the Marines tested me to my physical limits. The spiritual limits go beyond whatever the Marines could think up for me. It takes a long time to find the silence that God is looking for. Jonah like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane asks for this bitter cup to pass. But no it has to be done. We all have these extremely painful moments in life when God is forming us or redirecting our lives for the better. It only happens in silence, alone with God as Jonah and Jesus moments. And look at the results! Wow!
