Gal 4:19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
Eph. 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God
Gal. 5:19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Gal. 5:22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Liminal Spaces - From Latin:
Limen, “Threshold” or “Doorstep” take you from where you are to where you are going.
Physical Liminal Spaces:
- Stairwells
- Hallways
- Elevators
- Break rooms
- Waiting rooms
- Hotel Lobbies
- Airports
Non-Physical Liminal Spaces:
- job loss
- college
- wedding
- graduation
- mid-life
- divorce
Liminal space is where transformation takes place, but we have to wait and let God use this often uncomfortable space to form us.
Quote: Richard Rohr Author & Theologian
“Where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown. There alone is our old world left behind, while we are not yet sure of the new existence. That’s a good space where genuine newness can begin. Get there often and stay as long as you can by whatever means possible …. This is the sacred space where the old world is able to fall apart, and a bigger world is revealed. If we don’t encounter liminal space in our lives, we start idealizing normalcy. The threshold is God’s waiting room. Here we are taught openness and patience as we come to expect an appointment with the divine doctor.”
Psa. 139:23 Search me,a God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
A Prayer of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, (from Hearts on Fire) 'Patient Trust'
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually—let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
