It is hard sometimes to find our direction, especially when we thought we had it but now feel lost. Sometimes, the life within us becomes clouded by layers and layers of the life outside us, and we stumble and fall, searching frantically as the clouds become thicker and the light becomes dim. At other times, we sense our call deeply but have never put it into words, so we forget easily when we bump up against confusion - and the words we seek fall out of order.
I am called to be free
from fear for love
from doing for being
from control for trust
from captivity for freedom
from competition for community
from anger for compassion
from scarcity for abundance
from safety for life on the edge
from indifference for presence
from paralysis for possibility
from knowledge for wisdom
from apathy for action
from answers for mystery
from isolation for connection
from chaos for integration
from confusion for vision
from skimming for depth
from depression for joy
from self for service
from death for new life.
For when I am free,
my true goodness,
my overflowing holiness,
and my radiant beauty
will transform the world.
May we be open to our God’s freeing love.
And may we free others.
Peace,
Dave
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I feel as though I am wading thru water that is chest deep…leaning against it, pushing with my legs…but that there is no destination and all I really want
to do is stand still and “just be”. I go thru my daily life of work, eating, sleeping, semi-relationships…wondering and wandering thru the deep water.
And the desire to stand still…to let go…to release all…to be free of even thinking…is always there. Yet I keep pushing thru the water that stretches out
to the “horizon” in every direction…as though I “must do it”.
Dave, you have so eloquently articulated the yearning for renewal and transformation that so many of us are feeling. Thank you for reminding us that there are many others on this journey, and that this journey may feel like a struggle but it is actually a process of being reborn.