"This
day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set
before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you
and your children may live." (Deuteronomy
30:19 NIV)
Feelings
of disconnection can be most painful when we also feel separated from God…
Often the feeling of disconnection persists and we are obliged simply to
wait. But such waiting is a necessary
component of the crisis, a time during which we are further stripped of
illusions about who God is, as well as who God is not…
The
opportunity that accompanies the darkness of disconnection is freedom to search
for meaning unhindered by attachments that once constrained us. From an unfettered stance that allows us to
look over the whole of our life with newfound clarity, we have the capacity to
choose goals, tasks, and relationships that are healthy and free of
illusion.
Perhaps
it is only now that we can understand the commandment to "choose
life."
--
Judy Cannato in Weavings Journal, Jan/Feb 2001, published by The Upper
Room, Nashville, TN. Used with
permission.
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