How did charting the stars of your life go yesterday? You have a whole galaxy shining within
you. Your past forms
constellations that never stop spinning, swirling, expanding, and
evolving. In the shifting patterns of
life, sometimes a moment that might have been a lowlight for you in the past
suddenly starts to glimmer or glisten in a new way. Or maybe a moment you thought shone so
brightly loses some of its luster. The
stories we tell are not meant to grow stagnant.
But sometimes we repeat and replay a memory so many times it becomes
worn and weathered. Sometimes our
stories become stale because we keep saying the same words in the same way,
never allowing the story to find new life as what mixes and mingles with what
is right now. No matter how we try to
put our stories/lives/faith in a Tupperware container on the shelf for
safekeeping, time will keep reforming what has been, considering what is. It is
when we step back with a wider lens/perspective/hindsight to witness how the
various parts and pieces are connected and re-connecting in ways we never
noticed before. Today, keep adding new
stars to your chart and art. Maybe you
now remember that play in High School that filled you with joy, or that job you
lost because you stood up for a co-worker, or that ordinary day when you were
not expecting God to pay a visit, but suddenly the Sacred showed up. Keep listening to your life for the beautiful
mystery it is; keep exploring your life like it is a new space you’ve never
been in; keep remembering and recalling how spaces hold memories…that events
are tied to a specific moment in time.
May this holy summer homework open you to the One who is continuing to
help you revise and re-story your life every day. Amen.
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