Monday Meditation

Here is a simple meditation for today. Consider these questions in the simplest ways that you can.  Do not critique your answers; just allow them to come to your consciousness.  Tend to your soul’s most inner needs as a way of preparing to live your faith in new ways.

This past week I was able to participate in a virtual Bethany Fellows retreat experience. We usually meet twice a year for a Monday-Friday retreat. And although we had to cancel the in-person retreat, our leadership knew it would still be important and worth it to try and carve out at least some intentional time and space this week to be together in spirit. And they were right.

What lies ahead? What’s next? Easter. We have seven weeks of Eastertide and we will journey through this season. Which is to say, we have time to feel our feelings and acknowledge the strangeness of this Eastertide...and...maybe we will relate to the experience of those bewildered disciples in a new way.

So, yes, the pollinator box started me off on a theological musing about how faith is sometimes right in front of us and sometimes not. And like the pollinators, faith needs a place to call home, a few things to assist in the building process, and the right place to do its work. Weird, but this Palm Sunday, I was ok with weird.

Wherever we stand is holy ground. It is that simple. Wherever we stand, wherever our feet trod, wherever we find ourselves travelling, it is holy ground. This Lenten Wilderness, Spring 2020, the season of COVID-19 – all are holy ground. I have to remind myself of this over and over again when fear threatens to overwhelm me.  During this quarantined time, my feet have not been able to go to their usual places. I miss those places, and yet, I am learning that there is goodness in being just where I am.