Saturday, June 12, 2004

The gift of awareness

I am teaching a class on spiritual journaling this month of Sundays. Journaling is about discovey, and I am hoping we will all discover a richer, fuller knowledge of God working in us every minute of the day. We must sense the work of the Spirit in ourselves daily and also in the lives of others we encounter.

Writing regularly (whether a blog or a journal) "enables us to be 'watchers' of our behavior and attitudes. Journal keeping is a way of processing the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives," says Frederic Brussat. Arthur Gordon calls the process "a gift of awareness."

I want my students to get the idea that God bumps into us more often than we think. You remember those golden moments when you knew you had done and said something absolutely right....Those moments when a mystery was posed and you knew the answer immediately....Those moments when someone said something so astounding you could hardly absorb it....Those moments when God invited you into the lives of others without notice.

There is not a moment of the day that God couldn't make better if we allow him to break into our self-absorbed, busy lives.

Father, help us to consciously yield our moments and our days to you.

No comments: