Dear All of Us,
So, how do you do with the "Diddly Does" of daily life?
You know, all those pesky, practical, little didly things that demand doing.
Things like
paying bills
balancing the checking account
taking out the garbage
returning a library book before it's overdue
filling out forms - lots of them
deleting the daily barrage of bothersome emails and robocalls
remembering each of your 2,900 passwords
returning a defective product
To tell the truth, they annoy the liv'n heck out of me.
It's like being stuck in the minors when your ready for major league living.
Bring on the majors:
time of quiet prayer and reflection
reading a good novel
a walk in the woods
a dinner party with close friends
an afternoon helping at a homeless shelter
time with a spiritual director
an organ concert at The National Cathedral
I want to be swept up into God and the beauties of God's creation - the majors.
The heck with the minors and trying to fill out
that incomprehensible form requesting past medical records!!
Well, speaking of records, Evelyn Underhill sets the record straight, and me too.
She was a deeply spiritual and soul savvy woman, an English mystic who died in 1941, She was beautifully, fully into real major league living:
"Never let yourself think that because God has given you
many things to do for Him...pressing routine jobs,
a life filled up with duties and demands of a very practical sort -
that all these need separate you from communion with Him.
God is always coming to you in the
Sacrament of the Present Moment.
Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament;
however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him
in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice."
Life as Prayer and Other Writings
( Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1991, page 186 )
She saw that what's ranked minor league scores major league wins.
In the words of those 70's and so cool commercials for Mennen Skin Bracer,
"Thanks. I needed that!"
I needed to be reminded that not only is God in major league moments,
but every bit as much in those in pesky, daily and truly divine
DIDDLY DOES
Gotta go.
Time to take out the garbage.
Thanks for your good company.
In The Love Who Is God
John Frank
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Thanks for your good company.
In The Love Who Is God
John Frank
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A heartfelt welcome to all joining in here for the first time.
This week we had our first ever visit from the country of Jamaica.
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