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face of God, joy, Macrina Wiederkehr, pessimism, reawaken, seven sacred pauses, sinking, The Sophia Center for Spirituality

Here we go again…a new month…..Can we look forward with any sort of optimism, even while predictions of disease become more and more dire? I ask myself that question and then consider the alternative. What would be the result of giving in to pessimism? As I consider that, a stunning image comes to me: a huge line of people sinking into mud – all wearing masks now but continuing to sink – hands at their sides – silently sinking. No one is helping another. No one is speaking to anyone else. Just sinking.
I am appalled at this image. As quickly as it appears to me, it disappears. I will not let this sinking be my truth. I reach for Macrina Wiederkehr’s book, sevensacredpauses and determine to keep one or the other of the quotes I find in mind throughout the day. They will be my lifeline to pull me out of the mud. Listen to the voices:
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by infinite expectation of the dawn. (Henry David Thoreau)
Joy is God in the marrow of our bones. (Eugenia Price)
Joy is the echo of God’s life in you. (Dom Marmion)
To God belongs the East and the West; and wherever you turn, there is the face of God. (The Qur’an, Surah 2)