In the excitement of new and wonderful love, in the anticipation of our wedding, the change in what hours I will work and what that looks like, planning, waiting and wonder, one has stepped onto a busy road unaware that the pace has changed to one of hurry/haste and anxiousness. It has become a excessive speed internally.
So in the last few days I have had to return to what I so passionately speak of at the Sensual Table – engaging the senses in the ordinary to enjoy the mystery of being present. It brings me to the question of how the senses draw us into the mystery, which entwines with being present and what the third cord is in the “three strand cord” of life.
This place of nurture to my own heart and soul is essential to living out “loving yourself as well as you love your neighbour”. Loving deeply, loving well, and anticipating life as it moves into this amazing gift of partnering with the one who my heart has expanded to embrace can only come with authenticity as my contemplative soul is fed with quiet and solitude. It calls for intentionally holding my heart open to the Divine Mystery.
I am grateful for the following pieces I have been meditating on:
Often my life is like a spinning top
Hurtling through the days,
Spinning,
Spinning,
Spinning,
Savouring nothing,
Threshing air and noise.
Then, suddenly, unbalanced, thrown, my ground is gone
My dance is done,
Slowly unwinding
I fall,
Stunned,
Stilled,
Into the steady arms
Of God.
Pg 28 A Mystical Heart – Edwina Gateley
Ecclesiasticus 51, 12-15
I will thank you and praise you,
And bless the name of the Lord.
When I was still a youth, before I went travelling,
In my prayers I asked outright for wisdom.
Outside the sanctuary I will pray for her,
And to the last I will continue to seek her.
From her blossoming to the ripening of her grape,
My heart has taken its delight in her.
Sacred Space
Thank you Almighty for those who pen their thoughts so I may read them, digest them, wait in Holy Presence, be present with You, and find Wisdom, find Sophia, that invites me to simply be in the mystery of love, the mystery of life with my senses alive and engaged.
