Over the past three months, I noticed from my various spiritual activities and practices (divine reading, book circle, online courses, and presentation, making Soul Collage cards, coloring, and Prayer through movements) that a myriad of words, phrases and sentences have being swirling around in my head. Everyday listening to the busyness going on in my head, I got the sense that these unhinged guests namely surrender, trust, hope, mercy, truth, three-centered awareness, stillness, peace, death, silence, grace, freedom, well-being, power, strength, radiance, beauty, guiding light, goodness, joyous times, an undivided heart, prayer and work, a clear conscience, Eucharist, “Constant friend and guide,” “Rest in Me,” “I wish that you will always know within the depths of your being that I am your Rock and Fortress, a very Presence in times of dis-ease,” “I release all rigidity in your life that may hinder the flowering of your gentleness, softness and acceptance, “I am one who paints your life with the vibrant colors of the rainbow,” “Let your life be an expression of the rainbow giving encouragement to one and all,” “On your journey, I am the chalice that strengthens you along the way,” were looking for a resting place to become a cohesive whole that would infuse the ordinariness of my daily life.
In the wee hours of this morning as I lay in bed listening to their fluttering around looking for a resting place, I watched in slow motion as each one formed into one solitary word-LOVE. A word painted in red whilst these words vibrated in every fiber of my being:
Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesu, thou art all compassion,
pure unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation,
enter every trembling heart (Charles Wesley 1707-1788).
So, as I look forward to the beginning of the Body of Christ’s Liturgical Year my pray is that the chalice of Love may be the seasoning that sprinkles my every thought, word, and action so that I may love God with all my heart, mind, strength, and soul and love my neighbor as myself.
What might be your word that you desire to be your seasoning for this coming Liturgical Year?
—- Celpha Sands