I so appreciate receiving this quote from Father Laurence Freeman this morning. I am reminded that when something is not fathomable, that is the time not just to shrug our shoulders and say, "Oh, well," or even immediately attack with intellectual zeal. Rather, that is the time to first bow to the Spirit in awe.
"As we look into the depths of our own soul and see the wonder that is there, the wonder of God as the ground of our being, we experience mystery... Mystery is a real thing; it is not an airy-fairy thing. It is a real encounter with the living God. And reverence is that sense of wonder and respect that we have for the deep laws of nature and the deep laws of the spirit that we can't fully understand. They are mysterious, but we know that we are intertwined with them. We know we are living these deep mysteries, these laws of the spirit."
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