JOURNEY OF MY LIFE
JOURNEY TO GOD
Utter silence –
blinding winter sun
gentle breezes –
hardly noticeable
surprising warmth for
January
silent mystery!
In the distance –
pounding sea – waves crashing in – wild
repeating noise – one
right after the other.
Are these sounds of
my life? pounding?
wildness?
no control?
Mystery of the
pounding of the sea is the mystery of my life.
So many different
currents – some dangerous –
others easy to swim
in.
Utter silence of the
day is utter silence of God –
the Beloved.
Crashing ocean cannot
take away the silence of the Divine.
Stillness permeates
all – it frames the noise - pounding sea –
frames the currents
of my life.
How does it do
it? mystery?
Let me not ask too
many questions!
Better – let me feel
the Presence in the silence –
Presence of the
Beloved.
Like the mysterious
pounding of the sea,
my life pounds in
mystery -
sometimes painful –
other times with smiles.
Let the mystery be
dark - dim –
Presence of my
Beloved is there.
He will not leave me
alone.
God hovers over all!
Robert Trabold
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JOURNEY TO
RESURRECTION
Robert Trabold
In our walking through life and in
the years we have on earth, we do realize that our human existence is not our
real home. It is a home that has a
beginning, middle and an end. At times,
we do not want to realize this nor face it. It is hard to face because we have
to let go of our whole life on earth and move on to another existence. So this
engenders fear within us and this prospect is full of mystery. What is on the other side of our human
journey? So we see that our physical life is delicate and temporary but if we
are honest with ourselves, the fragility of this physical life is a symbol of
also the fragility of our spiritual life. We are burdened with our humanity
with its pride, selfishness and violence on the individual and social level. If
we look at ourselves in the mirror and are honest, we must admit that it is a
struggle in life to try to live in a positive way and not be dominated by our
selfishness and pride that never goes away.
This is the human condition. It is incumbent upon ourselves to
constantly keep in mind that we have to establish a real relationship with God
who is the eternal spring in our life and constantly gives us the inspiration
and strength to live in the way Jesus wants for us. Scripture tells us that we are fragile
vessels on earth and we have to become filled with the presence of the divine
to overcome this fragility and live in a new life.
Meditation is a powerful tool to
help us put into focus this human condition we are in and to see how we can go
beyond it. In our life, it is a challenge to come to grips with our humanity
and selfishness and reach out to a loving relationship with God which offers us
a way to go beyond our own fragility to a resurrection. Through the Christian
gospel, we are now invited to this resurrection and rebirth, we do not have to
wait until another day. Jesus invites us to die to our pride, self-importance
and limitations. Our life does not have to be dominated by the weaknesses of
our human existence. There is a way out. An example is Jesus’ life. He died on the cross and also had his
resurrection. Death did not have the final word and it is also a symbol of what
is offered to us. Through the example of his life, Jesus invites us to go through
our weaknesses and death and offers us a new life of communion and fraternity
with God and other human beings in earth and in eternity. We cross over our own
fear of our humanity and death to rise to a new life – an Easter Sunday for
ourselves.
When we sit down to meditate, Jesus
is giving us an invitation to go beyond our life of human weakness, pride and
death and rise to a new life in the mystery of God. In this journey into the divine, we realize
that the divine is love and this love casts out fear from our life. In this
journey in the human condition and on earth, ‘Someone’ loves us, watches over
us and calls to a loving relationship. This call to love and union with Jesus
casts out fear from us – we are no longer dominated by our weaknesses and our
fear of the death of our body. It puts everything in perspective – our life and
death are absorbed in our experience of God and in the confidence of the Lord’s
love for us. In our meditation and repetition of the mantra, we are focusing on
the divine’s presence within us and in our hearts. The daily fidelity to
meditation and saying of the mantra helps us better understand own life, death and resurrection and aids us
focus on the important goal, that is, to
put our life totally in the Lord and the new way he offers us to see ourselves
in the world and our earthly existence.
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