Questions from In Between
I had hoped to have my new 3D Living Site ready for launch today, but I have more things I want to have ready. It won’t be perfect yet, but it needs to be better than it is now. In the meantime, some quotations that have been intruding into my soul and some reflective questions. No answers, just questions.
From last night’s Lectio Divina group: Psalm 40:8 (NRSV):
I delight to do your will, O my God. Your law in within my heart.
- What is the connection between my delight and God’s will?
- And what about God’s delight and my will?
- What is happening when I find the delight in my living is dim and virtually extinguished? Is that saying something to me about where I am in or not in God’s will?
The same verse from Nan C. Merrill’s Psalms For Praying:
I delight to abandon myself into your hands, O my Beloved. For you are the Heart of my own heart.
- How can I live the Heart of my own heart in the face of strong pressure to do everything to perpetuate the group your in?
- Is the hope of the church in the growth of the institution or in reconnecting with a deeper obedience, a broader delight?
Then on my bulletin board, this piece from Thomas Merton:
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from the desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me
by the right road through I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I will trust you always
thought I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Just one more question:
- What does delight look like?
