Notes on Everyday Life

It's cold, cold, cold and already we and others are discussing summer rover excursions. Over the years, our trips have certainly gotten more complex and more remote and yet, somehow we keep going on them. Each trip, I'm reminded that extensive effort, energy and each other can = enjoyable.

 Just a few summers ago :-)

Still balancing!

Life=Balance=Art

 I'm still pondering, "Where am I letting the Light shine in my life?"

Reading Karl Rahner's, The Mystical Way in Everyday Life. Pondering, a relationship with God where mystery is acceptable, even encouraged, in a world that either defines or demands a definition for everything. I long to hold the mystery of God's hand. I long to believe I can hear His voice and He mine.

And yet, people today have an almost radical need to demythologize everything, to tear down all facades, to destroy all taboos, and to ask what is it that remains when all slogans are deleted and all ideologies destroyed. What truly remains is only what can be lived out in the act of loving another, provided this love is real. (Rahner) 

"Provided this love is real?" Real love? I certainly won't be Googling that anytime soon.  They say Christians will be known by their love. But quite frankly I see to many Christians without love, and sadly on many a day, I'm one of them. I wonder at our lack of love. Do we lack love because we've let go of God? Do we lack love because we lack mystery? Did we lose our love when we let go of our longing to hear His voice? And if so, how do we find our way back? How do we find the mystery of God's love at work in the world? Listening.

Karl Rahner, a Jesuit Priest who died in 1984, is widely regarded as one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century. His writings played an enormous role in shaping the documents of Vatican II. But while he is best known for his academic theology, his deepest goal was to help ordinary Christians to recognize and respond to the presence of grace in their everyday lives. Rahner famously observed that the Christians of the future will be mystics or there will be no Christianity. (Amazon)

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