We wrap up and wind down another week of 2021. I think so much of the blur and fog of life comes from the difficulty we can have to pause; to breathe; to just be in the moment with all it’s beauty and brokenness. Our minds are hardwired to point out all the less-than-perfectness of everything. We see the blemishes and what is lacking. We have been told that pointing out the defects is a sign of intelligence. I am convinced that contemplation, quietness, can open us to also the beauty in the brokenness. To hold the wonderful tension of between the shores of optimism and pessimism, seeking God’s grace to guide us between the two.
As you pause today: where did grace seem most tangible this week for you? Where did love light up your soul? Where did laughter erupt, and tears cathartically fall?
As you pause today: where did frustration fume? Who pushed your buttons? When did you wish you had a rewind button to go back and try again?
As you pause today: how is this moment, right here and right now, a culmination and coming together of what was, is, and can be?
Take time today to hold these questions. Take time together to listen to ways your soul offers responses. Take time today in silence to lean in and listen to how God responds to these questions.
And may grace and
peace and love be with you now more than ever.
Amen.
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