If it makes, which I'm so hoping it will!, our book group will be reading The Artist's Rule by Christine Valters Paintner this fall. The book intrigued me so much that, even tho we don't begin until next week, I started reading it not long after it arrived. This evening, as suggested in her first chapter: Week 1: Establishing a Creative, Contemplative Practice, I practiced Lectio Divina with this passage:
Now I am revealing new things to you
Things hidden and unknown to you
Created just now, this very moment.
Of these things you have heard nothing until now.
So that you cannot say, Oh yes, I knew this.
~ Isaiah 48:6-7
The phrases that shimmered for me were:
"I am revealing new things to you ... created just now."
As I sat with them, a deep sense of peaceful Hope started to settle in my bones. Could it be that rather than my being behind and trying to catch up to "the plan,' Mama Grace is lovingly creating things for me as the need arises?
Reflecting in my journal on this notion, I found that it feels soothing to think of Her quietly watching me and designing things as She senses a need. So rather than knowing me so well, it's all planned out (and over and done with, no need for further attention), She's right here, actively, patiently with me, in this moment...
.... and this moment
.... and this moment.
Ah, now this?
This feels much more like an intimate, caring relationship and one I want to be a part of, explore and grow.
Yes.
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