Life in the New Country...

How easy it is to get busy and not to see ! The world is so complex and layered . For the sake of survival - much of the perception of it, becomes background noise. In the anxiety of increasing complexity, there is comfort for me in the constancy of routine - to the point where they become invisible.

Yet there is a problem. When change comes near, so often I am not paying attention. I am reacting yet again to the trivial & the petty. How easy it is for me to lose sight of ‘the main thing’ and to be found sidetracked in something else.

As a disciple it is not enough anymore for me to know about the main thing – I want to be participating in it. The discipline of attending to the main thing – isn’t that the edginess, the restlessness of St Matthew’s words, “Keep awake... for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming” (Mt24:42). To be captured by the main thing – to truly desire it is to intensify one’s presence in the world.  Oh to be wholly aware in the concrete – to develop a sense of the Spirit of God shaping a place – is to open ones self to to possibility of blessing moment by moment. To be present to the whole and not distracted by the detail.

I stand as a small cup and the world pours into me. Yet I do not break because I am most wonderfully held. I am becoming more than I was because my awareness of God is expanding. Holiness in proximity to the mundane. In the middle of that vision I am becoming aware of choices of where I might choose to dwell in that space & what I might I might choose to do when I am there. Outwards & downwards !