"Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with everyone, but remain yourselves" - Pope Benedict XVI.
A beautiful thought on which I was pondering over these days . Be thoughtful but not complicated ! It was interesting, NO, it IS interesting. I was living out a strange feeling of 'existence', of 'loneliness', of 'desertification' (not in the exact sense meant by Benedict XVI! I'm not that Holy! ) these days. Didn't even want to share this with any one but wanted to overcome these in a silence, which I tried to find within me , but miserably failed to discover it. The one which I possessed once, I had lived once and I have failed in preserving it. But a real sense of 'being lived' is a deep question within me!
Was going through some spiritual writings these days and found a Phrase very interesting : 'The lack of silence in our words, the lack of limits in our relationships, the lack of life in our deeds', all these confirming a 'Life lived by the dead'. Do I really relish the sense or meaning of life which He has given me? The purpose He has put in my life? I'm still ignorant, even though right now I'm listening to a music which has beautiful
'Be still before the Lord, wait patiently for Him, Trust in the lord and dwell in His Holy Land.....'
Many a time it was time for me to ACT and then I was MEDITATING! Many a time I was meant to be in Silence and then I was in a hyper phase of activity ! Its CCC- Completely Complicated and Contradicting (Interesting to note some 'rephrasings' happening in my life these days !)
For sure these are the times of 'Polyphony' where many sounds really sound and confused to listen to 'what', to hold on to 'what'! But thinking again, Christ was a man of Contradictions - 'destined to be a sign that is opposed'- The prophesy of Simeon!
But what will remain with you is always a question : 'What have you done?What is the miracle in you ?'
To be silent before the Lord or to wander ceaselesly for the Lord?
I think its the BOTH : Like Francis of Assisi ! To be with HIM always! To be aware of HIS presence in my life! The very first act of giving a space for Christ and His words in everything we do or everything we think, can itself be a ceaseless prayer - A divine silence to ponder over and over - A thought which never complicates- which nourishes the real self of being 'MINE' and at the same time HIS- a nutshell of Mine with a treasure of HIM hidden inside ! But many a time, this dual thoughts don't coexist in me ! I cannot welcome both the good and bad, as HE did. That is where I fail ! That is where I fail to live my Silence ! Where all my search for something 'anonymous' reaches no where !
But the promise still remains - 'Deserts will broke into springs' !
And now its time to FACE THE MUSIC - Be still before the Lord, wait patiently for Him, Trust in the lord and.....!
Amen.
A beautiful thought on which I was pondering over these days . Be thoughtful but not complicated ! It was interesting, NO, it IS interesting. I was living out a strange feeling of 'existence', of 'loneliness', of 'desertification' (not in the exact sense meant by Benedict XVI! I'm not that Holy! ) these days. Didn't even want to share this with any one but wanted to overcome these in a silence, which I tried to find within me , but miserably failed to discover it. The one which I possessed once, I had lived once and I have failed in preserving it. But a real sense of 'being lived' is a deep question within me!
Was going through some spiritual writings these days and found a Phrase very interesting : 'The lack of silence in our words, the lack of limits in our relationships, the lack of life in our deeds', all these confirming a 'Life lived by the dead'. Do I really relish the sense or meaning of life which He has given me? The purpose He has put in my life? I'm still ignorant, even though right now I'm listening to a music which has beautiful
'Be still before the Lord, wait patiently for Him, Trust in the lord and dwell in His Holy Land.....'
Many a time it was time for me to ACT and then I was MEDITATING! Many a time I was meant to be in Silence and then I was in a hyper phase of activity ! Its CCC- Completely Complicated and Contradicting (Interesting to note some 'rephrasings' happening in my life these days !)
For sure these are the times of 'Polyphony' where many sounds really sound and confused to listen to 'what', to hold on to 'what'! But thinking again, Christ was a man of Contradictions - 'destined to be a sign that is opposed'- The prophesy of Simeon!
But what will remain with you is always a question : 'What have you done?What is the miracle in you ?'
To be silent before the Lord or to wander ceaselesly for the Lord?
I think its the BOTH : Like Francis of Assisi ! To be with HIM always! To be aware of HIS presence in my life! The very first act of giving a space for Christ and His words in everything we do or everything we think, can itself be a ceaseless prayer - A divine silence to ponder over and over - A thought which never complicates- which nourishes the real self of being 'MINE' and at the same time HIS- a nutshell of Mine with a treasure of HIM hidden inside ! But many a time, this dual thoughts don't coexist in me ! I cannot welcome both the good and bad, as HE did. That is where I fail ! That is where I fail to live my Silence ! Where all my search for something 'anonymous' reaches no where !
But the promise still remains - 'Deserts will broke into springs' !
And now its time to FACE THE MUSIC - Be still before the Lord, wait patiently for Him, Trust in the lord and.....!
Amen.
