I suspect the generally accepted idea of "everyday mystics" is as written about in Fr Richard's Daily Meditation today, to wit: Everyday mystics are people who commune with the presence of God, receive guidance through prophetic visions, voices, and dreams, and commit themselves to living for God rather than solely for themselves.
I am relieved to report that that is not my idea, not my experience, with everyday mystics.
I consider myself and most people I know to be everyday mystics. To me, we are people who know God inside/outside, but primarily in all the Oh No! places of life...the place where fear lives.
We are open to those experiences by thank you, and that is all. God knows naught of fear...thank you is our understanding of God welcoming it, allowing it to pass on through, playing hit and/or miss with every nerve on its way...still welcoming it.
With God in us, fear cannot stay to rule. We resist it not...we let it come in, sit down as we turn it over to God to do with as he will. God's will, God's way.
This is the rough yet ready way of this everyday mystic. I am met with Oh, No! experiences whenever they arise, and I feel fear. I pray thank you, and I repeat my long-ago blinding flash, I feel fear, God is near. I am comforted.
Then I am free to tell on me...to love and laugh.
Thank you.
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