Dear Friends,
What a glorious sight beholds us. I don’t know about you,
but for me the warm snap we have been experiencing through June has been
especially welcome after such a long and cold winter. I hope it continues long
into July. It feels as though the illuminating rays of summer light have
finally broken forth into the present and it literally warms the cockles of the
heart. With the garden bursting into colour, such radiant beauty can help remind
us that the present is so often what we make of it.
In spite of the lovely weather, the troubles around our
world are no less numerous or concerning. The struggles in our lives no less
taxing. And yet, if we can find space to
stop and sit to observe nature at its height, then something stills at the core
of our souls. We get that sense of standing in the footsteps of countless
people down millennia who have been calmed and healed by the natural world’s
remarkable power to inspire our musings. It’s as though we are standing on the
edge of eternity, which of course we are. The divine lifeforce which is present
within and all around us, but we so often lack the inclination or the wisdom to
recognise, floods into our consciousness from the creation he indwells.
And maybe, that is what we all need, in good weather or bad.
That place where we are able to stop and
in stillness observe, contemplate, imagine the overflowing love of God
cascading into the core of our beings like a waterfall flowing from the river
of life; refreshing, cleansing, healing all that we are.
Living in the present is so important if we are to avoid the
perils of allowing our past mistakes to consume us or of worrying to the point
of exhaustion over a future that may never be. The troubles of today are no
more or less menacing than those of our forebears, nor them which await our
children. What we might lack in the present era is the inclination to draw on
wisdom’s deep roots passed down through the ages. The kind of wisdom that
brings patience, hope and purpose…
Equally, having a hope in a bright future, however unknown,
helps us cope with the struggles we face today. When we imagine there is a
heaven, when we envision that God’s mercy is rolling down completely, when we
will see and recognise God in all his loving splendour, when all our brokenness
has been healed, when God’s peace fills the earth and when we all live as one,
then we are inspired and compelled to live today in the light of the future
that permeates our imagination. Then we begin to build heaven on earth and that
future begins to become a reality. It all begins with our own internal lives in
the here and now. So enjoy the sunshine!
Copious blessings,
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