We are called to ‘live
in harmony …’
The question is: Do
we in fact know how to live?
Do you know how to live?
Do you have a desire to actually live
rather than merely exist?
Entering a monastery
is a real ‘shock to the system’ – especially in today’s world (which sounds a
bit like a cliché). Nevertheless, so it
is. No iPhones, or smart-phones or ready
access to social media … no radio or television except occasionally.
What are the benefits
of that? It’s a very relevant question
for people who spend so many hours a day tuned into what people are saying
‘socially’ or ‘virtually.’
What do you discover
when you turn off the noise; and stop filling your head with technological,
non-stop communication? What might
happen?
…
Maybe … and in fact it
is something that we here would all agree on.
TRUTH. If there’s one thing you
can be sure of, when you give yourself to the Lord in quiet and seeming emptiness
(remember it actually isn’t emptiness) the truth bubbles up and speaks
to you.
We are nuns of the
Order of Truth – Veritas is our motto – so we bear witness in our silence and
by our lives that TRUTH MATTERS. More
than that, it can be known and lived.
You can live the truth. And the
invitation is that you neither have to, nor are you expected to live that truth
alone.
What did the Lord
promise His disciples before His ascension?
He said to them:
“Know that I am with you always; yes, to the
end of time.”
KNOW – so it’s not
simply a question of feeling. He invites
us to use our heads and our intelligence.
Know the truth.
I am with you. There again are the famous words which for
the Jews were too holy to be spoken, because they expressed God’s very
name: I AM.
And ‘with you’
remember, is what the Angel Gabriel told Mary was the meaning of Jesus’
name: Emmanuel – a name which means,
‘God is with us.’
And He said,
‘always.’ That simple sentence is
absolutely loaded with meaning.
And when the chaos around us seems to be too much to bear, He reminds us
that He is ‘always’ with us.
Do you have the
courage to believe Him???
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