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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
This morning I find myself looking back on my journey through life and how my movement was of one small step at a time. Only the Spirit could have managed to send me out in such a manner. On my part it required great courage, daring and an ever-deepening sense of trust. I had no idea of how I was being led.
Many of those steps were a mixture of myself and God’s loving plan for me. After some periods of rest God would pick me and together we would set out; I no longer belonged to myself, but rather to God.
On Monday, the Declaration Dignitas Infinita was released and I found myself feeling like I and so many others were being swept aside, again as being unworthy of the Church. (Reaction) That did not last for long before I decided I needed to stop, rest and then pick it up and not only read it, but pray with it. (Response) That most surely came from the Spirit because my practice for so many years had been to try to run away from such pain and struggle; or so I thought until God rescued me and brought me from darkness into God’s light.
I have been led out of the darkness that we sometimes mistake for life. But I am still beingled out, just as the Israelites were led out of the desert and Eugene wrote of ‘human, christian, saints. (The Preface) Some of the hurdles in front of me seem too tall to leap over and I ask once again that God will lead me how walk around the hurdle rather than giving up and turning away from the Beloved.
I remember what it was like to be filled with wonder that God should love me so. I find myself singing Talbot’s ‘We Remember’: We remember, we celebrate, we believe.