I am writing this reflection on the “pre” side of election. You are reading this reflection on the “post” side of the election. The news last night said that shopkeepers in DC and elsewhere are boarding up their modern, glass windows, just in case. I feel myself bracing too.
Daily meditation is a cornerstone of my inward journey practices. Meditation helps me reach beyond little ol’ me to feel connection to God, to earth, sea, sky, to myself, to you (whether your face is familiar or not), and even to those whose candidates I did not vote for. I have come to believe that God resides in this liminal space, this space between, this place of possibility.
Through inward journey practices I experience connection to the universe that God has made and called “good.” Through outward journey practices I can bring healing relationship into a daily life overflowing with boarded up windows and anxious people, and into a world where scarcity, injustice, fragmentation and isolation rule. Let’s not delude ourselves that this easy. We can only do our best, which sometimes looks like failure or foolishness.
The story of the widow who gives her all* in her own fragmented world is an example of someone whose understanding of self has moved beyond the isolated concept of little ol’ me to that of connection to the Divine whose abundance is overflowing. In a world mesmerized (even paralyzed) by the power others hold, she reminds me that even small acts can hold profound meaning as an expression of relationship rooted in God’s love, a love beyond our understanding.
I am writing on the “pre” side of the election; you are reading on the “post” side of the election. Let us remember that God lives between us, within us and around us.
