Reflection for October 21, 2015

Ordinary Mysticism

What the medieval mystics found is our invitation too.  Not to 2015Oct21seek out dramatic experience for the sake of dramatic experience.  But to look at what is around us, to look again, to look more closely, to open ourselves to the God who lives among all this and who invites us to see differently.

In her essay on mysticism in Amazing Grace, Kathleen Norris writes, “I find that I appreciate mysticism best in ordinary manifestation, as a means of tapping into the capacity for holiness that exists in us all.”

BLESSING

In the midst of your life;
the daily of it,
The ordinary of it,
the noontime and night of it,
let there be moments
that open to you
the hallowed and holy of it.

From “In the Sanctuary of Women, A Companion for Reflection and Prayer”, by Jan L. Richardson

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