Sunday August 25: When Deep Calls to Deep

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    • Posted by pbegeman on August 24, 2024 at 6:59 pm #147196

      To Practice: 

      • The one thing needed is will-to-God. All else falls in place or falls away. Reflect on the passages again and gently, without expectation, check in with yourself: can you sense this attraction to God, the ‘to whom else should I go’ nature of this magnetic pull? Trust this above all else.
      • Practice the three movements of the Welcoming Prayer with triggered sensations and emotions. Embrace yourself as you are, embrace the moment as it is.

      If you wish, you may re-read the full email reflection here: https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2024-word-of-the-week-aug25

    • Posted by Susan Kenney on August 25, 2024 at 9:52 am #147208

      About a year ago, St Francis church was graced with a statue of St Clare, honoring the woman who lived for years in deep.silence and understood the depth of Francis more clearly than his brothers.   I had asked Clare to tell me what I needed to know. A few weeks ago, on her feast day, she seemed to say, “You don’t need to come here every week, you know.”  In that moment, any sense of duty or obligation simply disappeared.

    • Posted by Adeline Behm on August 26, 2024 at 9:49 pm #147235

      “a restructuring of consciousness takes place, a process known only in retrospect. Step-by-step, consent deepens into surrender.” I have gone through many seasons of restructuring. The current one is being challenged, verified as I write. In half an hour I will be gathering with a group as we meet one last time as staff members and Board members to remember and share one last meal, celebrating what has been and what goes forward as a blessing that keeps blessing…. consenting our way into surrender… a willing… surrendering … ALL SHALL BE WELL AND ALL MANNER OF THINGS SHALL BE WELL.

    • Posted by Adeline Behm on August 30, 2024 at 10:59 pm #147321

      The image keeps pulling on me all week- the long stem rather like an umbilical cord or perhaps a birthing canal – anything to do “the narrow way, found by few?????, the gentle intriging nudge, or pull all week; not like something to be solved, perhaps an invitation to allow myself to be swallowed up, with a gentle rocking into Thomas’ Secret Embrace’ – ” Then the dance of the human nature with That Which IS taking on a whole new perspective” like sinking into, into, into “Nowhere is my destination. And no one is my identity…

      The final STAFF&BOARD gathering this past Monday, to my great surprise, I recognize I am being embraced by this  ” dance of the human nature with That Which IS ” the movement of the colors, a gentle rocking motion, there is nothing to control, there is just blessful surrender.

    • Posted by linda rhead on September 3, 2024 at 11:37 pm #147381

      “…our will-to-God is equally our will to be. We can now accept ourselves and our human lives without fear of going contrary to God, because now there is no contradiction of wills.”

      Warts and all, as the saying goes. I have come to accept my human life, after a lifetime of searching for God’s will, because me being me is God’s will. Daily I walk in the silence, awestruck by God’s loving me, warts and all. All I can do in return is to be the me-ist I can be. <3 linda

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