Breath of Creation
This entry was posted on 7/2/2009 6:48 AM and is filed under Secrets to Peace 2009.
Yesterday I received an email promoting Rob Bell's
upcoming tour. I found these words, (I
am guessing written by Rob Bell) in this
announcement:
We plot, we plan, we assume things are going
to go
A certain way and then they don't and we find
ourselves
In a new place, a place we haven't been
before, a place
We never would have imagined on our own,
And so it was difficult and unexpected and
maybe even
Tragic and yet it opened us up and freed us
to see
Things in a whole new way
Suffering does that-
It hurts,
But it also creates.
How many of the most significant moments in
your
Life came not because it all went right, but
because
It all fell apart?
It's strange how there can be art in the
agony. . .
I am not completely clear why I am compelled
to share these words, this morning, but
either I or someone on this list needs to
hear them.
Perhaps it is simply a reminder, to me, to
always look for the art, even when all I feel
is agony.
Perhaps it is a reminder that tragic events
can open me up to looking at life in a whole
new way.
I am reminded, with increasing intensity,
that how I look at life is more important
than what I think I am seeing.
Here's what I mean:
I see something
I define it
I classify it
It is good or bad
It is helpful or destructive
It brings pleasure or causes pain
It is wanted or undesired.
The very act
Of naming it
Takes me out of the realm of possibility
And limits me
To the definitions I use in my naming.
Perhaps I simply need a reminder that my way
of looking at the world needs to be
continuously challenged to rid myself of
complacency.
Maybe, I just need to remember that anything
I focus on, anything I fix my sights on is
increasing its presence in my experience.
For whatever reason, I found these words to
be important and I needed to share them, this
morning.
May you find the value you need for your life
experience, if these words were also meant
for you.
. What I was conveying was my tendency to think I need to wrap each new lesson/awareness up in prior understanding vs letting the NOW moment teach me its Truth. The reality is that I don't know what anything means unless/until higher wisdom reveals it to me. Yet, I have a strong (sometimes annointed/sometimes misperceived )need to connect the dots. I need only remember that each revelation is relevant for that moment...that particular lesson - not to be brought out and attached everytime something similiar crosses my awareness...unless of course it is... 
