We discover by experience that if we are faithful to our contemplative practices our practices faithfully lead us in the direction of a more daily, abiding awareness of the divinity of the life we are living. -- James Finley in Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, August 31, 2023
After reading Finley's quote, I felt confirmed in my feeling of being led...the confirmation that this is not a feeling, this is a fact...namely, that making myself available every morning (in what I call my quiet time) "faithfully leads me in the direction" of the Divine Light within, to a deeper awareness higher.
Earlier this morning I read a note I wrote in my God Calling in 1987 saying, in effect, what I just wrote...I am being led. Now, realizing the nearly 40-year connection, I am awed.
To me right this minute, I am being led is the greatest of all spiritual promises. This, of course, is subject to change as everything does if it lives and grows, just as it was explained in Fr Richard's Daily Meditation on September 1st: But at a deeper level, the entire journey is one in which we are called over and over again to surrender to a self-transforming process not of our own making.
Isn't that comforting? Truths we read one day, with a hopeful heart that it is true for us, show up as fact in our life a day, a week, a month...when we are ready...later.
Our life is not on our time schedule...our plans are but wants, a loose diagram of maybes...but our Father knows our needs, and that grows trust ever deeper.
Thank you.
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