I love these moments, these Trysting Places, with Our Beloved. With Vicky (and Whitney – see below) I must learn to go there not only when I am in a good place but also when all I want to do is hide in the bushes.
With a Song in my Heart – 40 Days of Sacred Songs Day 31 – Wednesday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Listen: Calm me, Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skgc03R2wxg Calm me, Lord, as you calmed the storm; still me, Lord, keep me from harm. Let all the tumult within me cease; enfold me, Lord, in your… Continue reading With a Song in my Heart – Day 31
Some days, if we listen closely and are still enough, we will know the deep truth that God is always with us and alongside us
The journey to a ‘Trysting Place’ is not for Lent alone. In this final blog find a link to the movie of the book ‘In this House of Brede’ and also details on how to be in contact with a local Religious Commnity.
As Lent draws to a close we run the risk of going back to ‘business as normal’ and not carry all we have learnt with us. What can we do to continue to grow closer to our Beloved.
The Yiddish Proverb ‘When you make plans, God laughs’ is as true for those living the Religious Life as for those on the roller coaster of so called ‘secular life’. What plans do we make for when our plans don’t work out?
To walk in faith always means going where we have not been before nor to places where we are comofrtable. To be faithful means a leap into the unknown knowing only that our Beloved holds us.
It is a long journey from ‘I want to be alone’ to ‘use me’ but it is the only journey worth travelling and the only example worth following.
Every so often God works in and through us despite us and uses ditress and upset to bring restoration and renewal.
Until we learn that ‘my’ vocation is as much God’s gift to others as it is to ourselves we will spend more time on caring for ourelves than for others and build a selfish ‘Georgy-Porgy’ theology.
Suffolk Vicar 