Faith & Love

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods" C.S. Lewis

It’s been about 8 months since my last blog.  I took some time to sit back, be quite and re-evaulate.  2012 was a really rough year for a lot of people! I know it was for me but 2012 is long gone and passed.....We’re entering in the 2nd month of the New Year, and for some us it was a slow entry and for others it came with a bang. Somehow in the midst of new beginnings, some of us are still trying to figure out how to hang on to our resolutions and dreams while others are smooth sailing to their promises and hopes.

I’ve learned a lot of lessons in life but faith and love have played a huge part for the beginning of the year. Entering 2013, I suddenly found myself rushing to get on a plane to go see my sister who was admitted into ER and after a few days of spending the night in the hospital, I was totally irritable.  As I walked through the halls of the hospital at midnight of the expected moms to be, mom & baby, and preemies - all of a sudden I was falling in love with faces, feeling the brokenness of those who were alone, and listening to the seeds of hope in every conversation going on around me.

This reminded me how during this season with celebration of light and grace dissipating and newness of spring approaching, it can often invite us into this kind of poignant almost heart -breaking love.  And off course love is there beneath the surface of things. And we always have the choice to look at each other with the eye of love.  Yet, its been my experience that the love force of the cosmos is present in a particularly accessible way at this time of year.  Whether we believe the reasons are spiritual, cultural or planetary this is the time of year when the doors of the Infinite seem to open easily and if we pay attention the faces of family, friends and even strangers become portals into the Divine.  I’ve been reading a book that suggests that we humans practice “seeing God in each other”.  For a long time I thought it was suggesting that we look for something other worldly or transcendent in each other. I thought to see God in another person demanded we look past their quirky, sometimes disturbing human self and somehow magically discern the hidden light.  It took this life event that brought me to a hospital - to realize it was pointing to something far more radical.  To see God in another person, merely suggests seeing the sacred beauty in that person’s sheer messy humanness, in their brokenness as well as their gifts in their failures as well as successes, in their annoying qualities as well as their loveable ones.  Granted this is way less easy to practice it than to live it.

The sense of duality is tenacious - (I have a tattoo on my arm to prove it)..... and off course this doesn’t mean that it’s an excuse to let others and yourself off the hook off reasonable behavior. But it happens to be the vision that above all others can liberate each of us into love.  For me, it just means paying more attention on how I choose to interpret the energies to tune into the light behind the eyes of my family who sometimes I don’t quite get along with, or the eyes of friends who’ve strayed from the friendship and those who are long gone - and strangers hurrying through the mall, and to sense their sacred presence that never stops living but you just might have to do a little bit of diggin! So get to work!

In faith & love,