By Marilyn McEntyre
What if we actually believed the counterintuitive claim that
spiritual teachers from Jesus on have insisted upon against all concrete
evidence: You are safe in the
arms of God.
Our lives might look significantly different. They would
certainly be more conspicuously countercultural. Imagine for a moment what it
might be like not to live in the fear that keeps us clinging to our "sense
of safety" a little too tightly. We would say what we meant. Kindly, one
hopes, but clearly, without fear of reprisal.
We would give away money, things, time, much less guardedly.
We would make our decisions in a spirit of deep attention to the
call of the moment, listening and moving with the invitation of the Spirit to
act without second-guessing.
We would plan less. We would let things unfold.
We would behave as children do who know their parents' watchful
eyes are on them—in the freedom of knowing someone will catch them if they
fall.
If we realized, even now and then, how securely we are held in
God's arms, if we could meditate on Jesus' words not to fear anything that
destroys the body, we might occasionally look around and recognize in our
worldly habitat a playground of possibilities.
From Weavings:
A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life (Sept/Oct 2006).
Shared by Rev. Lee Anderson-Harris
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