Meditation #20 The Call to
BE
I am back with my
Meditations. The last one was short, concise and powerful, based on the fact
that no-one can be better at being You than You, and this one will propel us
further. The Call is To BE, to be more, to be holy, as Macrina Wiederkehr so
daringly voices. But in her book "A Tree Full of Angels" she details
it even further. To be holy in today's reality entails seeing the sacred in the
ordinary in order to keep the spark of life ablaze within. In her meditation
she confesses how the Church might have disillusioned and hurt her, either by
changing too fast or by not changing at all, and I identified with this
assertion. How many of us no longer feel the Church responds to our needs or
feeds us, but the invitation is to forgive and move on, and to remember you are
a "portable chapel". You carry God wherever you go, and every human
encounter is Holy when approached in this light. She beautifully declares:
"I want to be a bucket for the sharing of the water of life. " And,
being echo to the invitations I am voicing in my Lunita Company page, the
summons entail falling in love with life all over again; remaining aware of the
sacred mystery of life; becoming artists at life.
"Artists are those who
have visions. There is something of and artist in ALL OF US. Artists have
hungry hearts and hungry eyes; hungry for truth, hunger to understand, to know,
to create, to see the depth of things. They are not satisfied with our
ordinary, dim way of seeing."
We conclude with her
prayer: "Help me, Oh Lord, to help answer prayers. A Saint is one who
exaggerates what the world neglects."
With love,
Lina.
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