April 8, 2024
From James Finley, writer of April 8th, 2024 Daily
Meditation CAC.org.
“The
essential, that which is given to us in the metaphorical fire of this quiet
oneness, never imposes itself on us, while the unessential is constantly
imposing itself on us. We begin to wonder, “How can I learn not to get so
caught up in the complexities of the day-to-day that I keep losing my sense of
connectedness with this depth, this fire, which alone is ultimately real?”
It
doesn’t lie in our power to make these insights happen, but here’s the key. We
can freely choose to assume the stance that offers the least resistance to
being overtaken by the fire that we cannot make happen. This is our daily
rendezvous, and the key is that it’s personal. We have to find those acts,
those persons, those modes of service, those moments of creative unfolding,
those moments where we feel something is being asked of us….
Therefore,
we want to set aside a quiet time of availability to this. We have to stay with
it. We have to be patient and be calm. We have to be receptively open to this
way of being. And at the end of each rendezvous with the deeper place, we ask
for the grace not to break the thread of that sensitivity as we go through the
rest of our day. Although the thread breaks many times from our end, it never
breaks from God’s end…. “
Listening to our Souls through these lines of Pinegrove’s Iodine:
I’m spiraled up inside
My iridescent mind is reaching up for something pure and or actual.
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