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A listening heart and an attentive mind is the greatest gift of hospitality anyone can offer to another person.
If there’s one gift I’ve received during the days of the coronavirus quarantine it has been the gift of abiding. With busniess, churches, entertainment and recreation closed, literally all roads lead home. And at home, along with the rest of the world I say put.
Liminal space refers to the time and space between two things. It’s an architectural word for those in-between functional places that get us from one place to another in a building, like a doorway or a hallway. But in life sometimes we get stuck in those metaphoric doorways and hallways rattling doorknobs of locked doors counting the minutes until we are out of this space.
Working with a spiritual director is allowing a companion to join you as an experienced observer on your faith pilgrimage through life. And as much as “abiding together” in spiritual direction has to do with sitting and dwelling, it’s really about creating a place to rest as we make pilgrimage through new territory of the inner life.
Just as surely as we see signs when the seasons change, so God gives us signs of new awakenings within us as well…Change is rarely comfortable because it involves dismantling, rearranging, renovating, demolishing, constructing — all signs of a creative process. But be assured, no matter how uncomfortable or disorienting, this process, in the hands of a loving God is reason for hope. What are your areas of awakening? How are you responding to them? Who are the people who support you in it? What are the questions that are raised within you?
