I don’t come up with these ideas or conclusions without considering the facts... or without observing what is happening around me. I do try to keep my eyes and ears open to what is happening on the “outside” as well as what I am experiencing on the “inside”.
I have a very fond... and eye-opening... memory of my friend, Sister Margie (SSJ), taking me by the hand and guiding me into a small private room of the convent. As we sat opposite one another, she asked, “All right, what is going on with you?” It was a legitimate question as she had been a part of my spiritual growth for a long time.
“I’m a seeker,” I replied.
Margie stopped and thought for a few moments. “Yes,” she said, nodding her head. “A seeker is a good thing to be.”
I don’t know if she interpreted the word as I did but I realized it didn’t matter. Aren’t we all “seekers”?
That was a few years ago. A lot has happened in the world since then... and is still happening.
Division is everywhere. People are almost desperate in their yearning for something more... something they can believe in... a place where they are accepted and loved for who they are... a place where they can grow spiritually without being bogged down with dogma and laws... a place where they feel ‘at home’... a place where like-minded people share and feed each other.
In the Christian tradition, I see a few things happening. Some are being drawn into the institutional traditions where they feel protected and comfortable, separate from the rest of the world. (The Latin Mass is making a comeback.)
Others are realizing our oneness with all... seeing all the earth as holy and necessary to our existence... living the premise it is only Love which will cure the world.
I think that people are aching for God... experiencing an insatiable hunger... and the more we yearn for, and come to know, the God of Love, the more we see the evil manifested by those who are afraid. Out of their fear, they make for themselves a god of money and power... no different from worshiping the golden idols of yore.
There will always be the struggle of good versus evil. Both exist within each of us but I think Love will eventually win.
That’s what I think.
P.S. For those of you who may not be aware, my latest book... a novel of fiction called “Laughing Rain” (by Constance Townsend) is now available on Amazon.
I am presently working on the sequel with the working title of “Called by the Wind”.
God Bless us all!
Connie
