This morning, November 2, 2010, I just came back from voting and so got to have the experience of the fresh air and sunshine of our beautiful Minnesota . As I look around me I see God my Creator speaking loudly from everything I look at – the trees as they ready themselves for winter, the white puffy clouds in front of the blue sky, and the gushing water of the Mississippi . Existence speaks to me of the primacy of God the Father; this Person of God self-expresses as the Word; that which exists and self-expresses is full of life and change, the Spirit. I see everything imaging God to me of this three-fold relationship within the Blessed Trinity. It is beautiful and good. May God be praised!
Thank you, RoseMae for your thoughts and for your image of the spider web. I just read a reflection on a web which reminded me that we can step back when we feel entangled in a web of fear. We can step back and become an observer of our own lives, looking at the entire pattern rather than a single strand of fear. (In one explanation of the Sioux tradition, a spider (Iktomi)represents fear of the unseen.) We are able to keep our eyes open for connections and patterns. No one need ever be enslaved by any fearsome part when Spirit-spun pathways are available for walking into other possibilities. I see the uncountable connections in the web as so many possibilities for choice. Jan, osf
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