More from "Sacred Wounds" and the life that unfolds in a congregation as we continue the process of being in-formed.
Our spiritual instincts may be dulled when embodied feeling is not encouraged to stretch in our religious sensitivities. Our habits can obscure the sacred quality of the unconventional. Being in-formed by dissonant experiences and practices may not be aesthetically pleasing to many. The experience can feel like an untuned piano sounds to an ear accustomed to a finely tuned instrument. Institutional bodywork takes time to settle into us to feel our way into God's unpredictable movements among us.
We all have to make adjustments. There are ways in which we walk and live and love and worship. To have to enter into something that is not as we would prefer to have it - well, it can be hard. No one wants to sit through me trying to work my way through a cello piece for the first time - not even me. But later - even with some of the awful sounds I can produce as I go through a so-called simple piece - even my cats begin to not fear coming close. Within the community of the faithful, we are invited to be patient and listen and hold hands and pray for one another as we experience that which is not what we would prefer not to experience or at least, not yet. Community does take time to unfold and grow and mature. Like wine - I suppose. Connection: We may not always have life the way we want it. That is when we learn to grow and become more than what we are. Here we see ourselves in you, O God of New Life. Even among those who are so different from us there is your face and your love. And yet, we need you to inspire us to look again and gracefully walk with others. Amen. |
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