Episode 37: The Great Gap
In this season as we prepare for Christmas, I often feel a sense of melancholy. Yes, there are so many things to do and fun to be had, but I get a very melancholy feeling inside when I stop the busyness, even for a moment.
I realized that what Christmas represents - from the Christian faith and also even from a secular perspective- is joy, peace, and love. Yet often the world doesn’t feel that way, even after Christmas has arrived. Instead, the gap between what is and what should be feels like the Grand Canyon.
In today’s episode we will let go of the things we hold onto, or that occupy our time or our minds, that keep us from being present in the moment, with its dark and light, that keep us from receiving the love of the divine versus clamoring for the acceptance and approval of others, and that keep us from trusting in our path versus trying to find security in a path that wasn’t meant for us.
Our listening portion today will be from Thomas Merton:
Inner silence depends on a continual seeking, a continual crying in the night, a repeated benign over the abyss…For He is found when He is sought, and when He is no longer sought, He escapes us.
-Thomas Merton
