Pausing in our Relationships

 

Today we push pause to breathe and be.  We lean in to listen to God who can move in our midst in such dazzling mysterious ways that will always open more for us to explore and encounter.  We never exhaust or finish our relationship, the Divine Dance, with God, ourselves, or others.  We live and move; have our being in the rhythm of “me” and “we”. 

 

So breathe in this week naming some of the people you’ve talked with on the phone or in person …breathe out words someone said that frustrated, hurt, or harmed you.

 

Breathe in the names of people who are part of the index in the back of your book of love…breathe out the good, the bad, the ugly ~ the pluses and minus that are part of any/all relationships. 

 

Breathe in the endless exploration of relationships…breathe out the idea that any of us ever graduate or obtain a guru/Yoda Jedi-Master status in our communal connections.  We are always learners. 

 

Breathe in authors and artists who have sung, storied, sashayed their way into your index… breathe out the power ballads and romanticized ideals of movies or books that gave some strange ideas about love and connections.

 

Breathe in the “we” that is inside your “me”…breathe out some of the ways we pass along unprocessed pain.

 

Breathe and be in the presence of the One whose first and last word is love that never lets us go and is never finished with us.  Amen.