Aisling on Earth

" Come, O Holy Spirit come, and fill the heart of this faith-less one."

  "So long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth" Words written by Johann Von Goethe, "The Holy Land.

We are not meant to be "troubled guests' we are meant to be so much more. That which we are called to be cannot just be wished for, we have to do it "the old fashioned way, we have to earn it, work for it." It is hard work that calls for, demands perseverance. We are destined to fulfill a role, a calling, that is eternal. We are eternal, we are not time bound. We are always to look for what is beyond what we see. We do not meet this challenge alone, we have The Trinitarian Presence, celebrating their love, in our very depths. The spiritual journey, and its demanding hard work, will get us to that Presence. 

      Our prayer is that we are able to join in the dance of The Trinity, and so become an active participant in their eternal celebration. Every,  "now" moment welcomes into the celebration of Infinite Love, and The lover(s) within. We are called to be, and become that which is way beyond our unaided vision. We are constantly called to become "alert", become "woke"to the infinite Mystery, and The Mysterious Trinity encased within our human form. We are, thanks to the power of The Creative,  Who is always creating. So  we are challenged to look out for the new. Some wise people encourage us to look for THREE surprises every day. Our look in the mirror is our first surprise. That which we see looking back at us is, The Face Of The Divine, God. The Incarnation is revealed to us, ever anew. The Creative One, does not create duplicates. (Is it time to check into your awe-full-ness. This blows ordinariness our dull ness, out of the ballpark. Need I need to remind you your life is Awe-full not awesome.

          Let's take a look at what Fr. Ronald Rolheiser has written in his great book, The Holy Longing. He starts with a  supposed quote fro Plato: " We are fired into life with a madness that comes from the gods and which would have us believe that we can have great love, perpetuate our own seed, and contemplate the divine". ' it is no easy task towels this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. ( AA teaches us that when our disease is active, we are restless, irritable, and discontent. For ongoing recovery these realities must be confronted, and brought to the prayer of  abandonment and powerlessness.) 

 When we settle into the lie about the ordinariness, the dullness, the lifeless of our lives, lets take time to reflect on the following, taken from the same book: " everybody is ultimately talking about the same unquenchable fire, a restlessness, a longing, a loneliness, a gnawing nostalgia, a wildness that cannot be tamed, a congenital all-embracing ache that lies at the center of human experience and is the ultimate force that drives everything." This dis-ease is universal, we are all infected from birth. St Augustine wrote these words : "You have made us for Yourself O Lord, and we will never rest, until we rest in You." That restless journey is another name for, spirituality." 

A great deal more to come as we face how we are prepared for the every day, every moment's  struggle with the challenges of journeying in and with a wounded humanity. Love, prayers, and blessings. GGJ.