Thursday, July 03, 2008

Shifts Are Happening

This afternoon I had a session with Fr. Charlie.
We sat in the coolness of a basement room
and visited for 2 hours.
We laughed quite a bit.
We shared back and forth.
We sat in silence, too.

As I reflect on the session
I see I need to relax and simply
be where I am on the journey.
Shifts are happening within me
and I need to let them work themselves out.
Or rather in.
There's no hurrying the process.

There is no end to the areas in my life
where I will go look for distraction
rather than be present.
I had my eyes opened
to a whole new area today.
I don't feel discouraged
but I do feel surprised.

That void that only can be filled
with His life
I often try to be fill
with other things.

Fr. Charlie rarely has answers for me,
Just questions.
Pokes and prods my soul.
Stays out of the way
while the answers take
their own sweet time to surface.

5 comments:

annie said...

I sometimes have trouble being patient while waiting for the answers to surface...

owenswain said...

God bless people like Fr. Charlie.

Anonymous said...

Hope I am so grateful I found your blog. I also had a pretty big moment today, I shared about it in a post today. Have a great weekend! I thank God for you every day!

Lisa said...

I see I need to relax and simply
be where I am on the journey.
Shifts are happening within me
and I need to let them work themselves out.
Or rather in.
There's no hurrying the process.


such a good reminder today. thanks for sharing. I needed to remember this too.

Anonymous said...

Isn't this what it is all about?

Smiles, Gerry