When I feel overwhelmed or sunk into too deep to my world, I go outside. Tonight, Jupiter is such a large, warm yellow light in the sky. It seems close. I thought about it’s scale; looked at it next to the stars. Imagined it’s size should it come close to the earth.
THIS is my home, as much as the terra firma around me. I am much more attached to earth but God lives in the stars as well as here with us. God is the God of the infinite creation, not just our planet, our home, all we know.
Our minds and souls can travel with God beyond our planet. It is a beautiful and enlightening thought and experience to consider but to what end. I just finished reading an short overview of Christian spirituality that was in Rohr’s library. It talks frequently about that, that this tension about mysticism and action has been present all along.
There is a real balance between them and I see why Rohr called his center The Center for Action and Contemplation. This concept is all throughout writings of thinkers and theologians of the last two thousand years, of Christian writers.
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One thing I’ve wondered about for years is how can what people maybe are even experts on, such as a psychologist, not be a living example of what they preach. It’s always befuddled me. It’s easy to learn something and even believe in it and not have it change your life.
I know several therapists whose own lives don't reflect what they're teaching their clients.
It’s about practice, practicing what you preach… that saying that’s been around. I’m seeing that with the therapy and my own study. Gotta do the practice. It's an effort to know something and then do it. Very different experiences with the same data.