This week has been about trying to make sacred space in my routine. Space for stillness, silence, repose so I might tune in to the signal of the Creator. My spiritual director suggested an Ignatian exercise of reviewing the day, looking for a moment when I felt most alive and noticed God at work in my life. Then last Thursday at the spouses group, Wendy led us in a Labyrinth style meditation. With thoughtful reflections and proactive instruction, the purpose was for us to journey into the Labyrinth, shedding the stresses of the day and heading towards a meeting with the Holy One. From that encounter, we returned outwards to share what we had experienced with others. At the end of the mediation, the stillness of the air, the quietness of the room meant that sacred space had been found and experienced. I still need to cultivate this practice into my routine, especially at work. With the constant demands on us for our attention, the white noise, the visual bombardment, the constant murmuring of traffic, computers, voices, stopping still isn’t the first thing that springs to mind. I find it so hard to see God at work in my day to day life. Yet I have seen in the Bible, God mysteriously moving throughout the backdrop of history, knitting together his purpose and so I know he must be present at work in my life. I love the analogy of textiles, God the weaver and life the fabric. I occasionally knit and the thing I find most satisfying is the thought of what I could create – me mirroring the delight of my creator, perhaps? I found this poem that speaks of the precious golden thread that God weaves through our lives; I don’t know who wrote it.
“My life is but a weaving, between my God and me,
I do not choose the colours, He worketh steadily,
Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride,
Forget He sees the upper, and I the underside.
Not till the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly,
Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why,
The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver’s hand,
As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned.”
