This blog is a collection of the messages of support sent out via e-mail or posted on the web since the diagnosis of Rick's brain cancer. There are links to music, lyrics to songs, scripture passages, prayers, and more.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Sept 20 - The Sacred

Meister Eckert, the 13th Century German mystic, once wrote:  "Suppose someone in hiding stirs, showing their whereabouts there.  God does the same.  No one could have found God - God gave Himself away.
     Whatever name or description you ascribe to the Divine, this truth remains:  the sacred can be less than visible in the everyday world, until it comes out of hiding.  Truly, that which is sacred has been present all along, but often you haven't been looking for it.  From time to time you catch glimmers or glimpses, but so much of the time, like everyone, you become captive to your daily routines, the familiar sights, your customary thoughts.
     Beneath and throughout those common routines, however, is a deeper truth.  The sacred reveals itself in the earthy and earthly, in what is considered most ordinary.  In fact, that's the only place that holiness can reveal itself if our very human and earthly eyes are to see it.
from "The Art of Being a Healing Presence" by James E. Miller and Susan C. Cutshall

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