Keeping Our Center ~ Day 14

I’m afraid this pandemic has truly sucked up our energy and our attention. So much so that I’d almost forgotten that we are in the middle of the Lenten season, a season that calls us to become more reflective and go inward. It’s understandable that we’ve been drawn outward as we watch with dismay what is going on around the world, but I’m going to try and draw us inward again, to the sacred journey going on within each of us.

When I was in seminary I struggled with what it meant to be a pastor. Did I have to act different? Think different? Would I find religion and lose my sense of humor (I’ve seen it happen)?

I finally realized that the spiritual journey doesn’t require that we lose ourselves (or our sense of humor), but that we find ourselves, and in finding our true selves we find God at the same time.  It would be nice if one soul-searching retreat would enlighten us. Or one incredibly inspiring sermon would make everything clear. But the truth is that the spiritual journey is a life-long process of awakening.

Just when I think I’m starting to figure a few things out, just when the snow in my snow globe is starting to settle and I’m seeing more clearly, someone or something shakes the darn globe again. Sure, it’s a little frustrating, but it’s change that challenges us to learn more, explore more, experience more.

Our snow globe has been pretty well shook up these days. But as we still ourselves, live into the new questions we have, and continue seeking our center, things will eventually settle again and we’ll see life anew.

Love & Light!

Kaye