What a strange thing it is that even though there is some miracle like this, we look – not up at the light of God – but down at the mud beneath our feet.
The other day someone who is dear to me was very very sick. They were not only sick, but they were critically sick. Their condition was so severe that it was life threatening.
During that time, it was very stressful. The people around me who cared for this person and their family very very much were deeply troubled by this illness and the progression of this illness. And, as a result of this they worried very much about this and considered that it was very troubling that this person was unwell.
Because they were worried they became very emotional about him and his care and his condition. In many ways this meant that they endured the experience of grief in a magnified manner.
Now, while I am not judging them for their reaction to this experience, I am considering how much we humans tend to overcomplicate situations.
The end result of this situation was that after great angst, this dear one was able to go home and return at a later date for some very serious surgery. And this in itself was such a miracle.
I remember when I heard the news that the surgery had been delayed, I thought to myself, what a miracle this is. How extraordinary that where there was no path, God had made a path available. And I also thought to myself, what a strange thing it is that even though there is some miracle like this, we look – not up at the light of God – but down at the mud beneath our feet. And instead of focusing on the miracle that was received we were so focused on the long-term plans and end result and whether this would mean that the problem would be completed resolved by the surgery or not.
And I was reflecting on this, because it all comes back to being children of God and maintain a spiritual innocence, where we do not worry about the future and only worry about living in the moment to ensure that we are able to fulfil the will of God when we just live in the moment accepting His Holy Will.
And that is such a blessing because it is a wonderful thing to be able to understand how God can move us in the direction that He wants to move us – and just as things changed without me doing anything in particular, so too can God move things without anything more from me. In fact, I can do pretty much nothing at all and if I could just stop and trust in God to do everything for me, then I could actually get to where I am supposed to be.
And where I am supposed to be? I am supposed to be with my Beloved. That is where I am supposed to be. In Heaven- with my Beloved – when I die.
For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
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