I've decided over the last few days that my Lent has not progressed as I would like. Oh, sure, I've kept (for the most paret) the committments I made. However, I don't feel closer to Christ, and I have really felt distracted and sort of uncentered (perhaps due to all of the studies for Patristics and deacon formation). Anyhow, I've decided that I need to refocus and put my attention somewhere else for the remainder of Lent—primarily on scripture and meditation. I'm going to take a break from blogging (reading and writing) for the time. God bless you all.
Also, please keep in your prayers Bobbie Van Steenburgen, a St. John's parishioner and a member of my wife's small faith community. She has been recivering from her third hip surgery in the last year and fell in the bathroom two nights ago. She struck her head and suffered a subdural hematoma. There were some other complicating factors. Suffice it to say, we're all concerned for her recovery. Please keep her in your prayers.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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thoughts on feeling close to God...
Consider: "God is spirit," and
that which is spirit, can only be "touched" with spirit. God, in the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, has revealed that He is Truth. To know Truth is to touch God as closely as can be done in this life.
Now feelings are a response to stimulus; God cannot be "felt" directly (being pure spirit), but "contact" (as above) can overflow into feelings, the response of the material side of our nature.
To desire to FEEL close to God is to focus on our self; to want to BE close to God, is another thing. As St. John of the Cross pointed out, God will withdraw the feelings so we may approach Him in a pure act of the will.
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