ALL IS WELL...REALLY

Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" this week is about liminal space. His today's guest, LaVera Crawley, writes, It takes willingness, fortitude, knowledge, skill, and a deep trust in Spirit to go into these dark places. 

I wonder if what the world is in today doesn't qualify for just that, liminal space, a place of transformation.

I see the world today living with climate change which is causing many of us to be in fear and consternation for Mount Kilimanjaro being snowless and polar bears being without a floe to float on. Then there's the the pandemic causing some to be in a state of mindless panic in fear of death or worse and others in fear of the world in economic collapse. Some of us are begging to believe that somehow God will not let any harm come to us or ours while others are so numb that we can only feel whatever. 

All of that says to me that the majority of us are stuck in our reasoning mind without a clue and only fear for company...all the while leaning on our reasoning mind for a way out. Talk about going down that wrong road again.

I heard Jon Meacham on "Morning Joe" this morning talking about how we got to this place, and his words that stuck with me are: ... the refusal to accept an inconvenient fact.

Whoa! Here's me, gobsmacked.

No matter of whom he was speaking, that has my name all over it. That's the liminal space for me. The place where I see me as the source of all my woes (a.k.a., an inconvenient fact). Where I quit looking for someone to blame and start the uphill climb toward willingness...willing to accept responsibility for my resistance to my reality.

Oh my. A dark and scary place indeed.

Crawley continued, about entering liminal space: The first step requires trusting that, in the course of time, the very healing we seek can emerge by our journeying through liminal space, listening attentively to what the liminal seeks to tell us.

Trusting what the Unseen, the Unknown...Spirit...seeks to tell us. Then we know, and we know we know: I Am Responsible for the place whereon I stand.

 All is well, all is well, all is well with my Lord. Can I get an Amen!

Thank you.