Mission seeking

Seeking mission
Mission seeking
Mission: seeking

It's Lent and I am trying, though words are often elusive.

I'm rereading Entering the Castle, in which Carolyn Myss explores Teresa of Avila and invites the reader to a life as a mystic without a monastery.

As a contemporary mystic, you are measured by the quality of attitude you bring to all your tasks, by your capacity to be a model of generosity, and by challenging the fear that there is not enough to go around in this world--whether that is money, love, food, fame, power, attention, success, or social position. Mystical service means modeling calm in chaos, kindness amid anger, forgiveness at all times, personal integrity--to live, in other words, mindful that every second offers a choice either to channel grace or to withhold it. (p. 29)

I find this inviting, challenging, overwhelming.

In seeking mission, I am seeking that integrity that in every way, in every moment is mindful of the greater good, the cosmic communion in which we are all one and therefore there is no we-they, no above-below, nothing beneath me, nothing beyond me, all in all in love.

Here is my purpose and call: to keep this in mind as I try to plan my day, my week, my months and year ahead in a job that is a lot about being open to hope, opportunity, encounter, communion.

Quest for God

"Human persons don't just ask questions: we are a question in search of the fullness of truth."

Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God.
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All the mystics seem to come to know that what is important to know is beyond knowing.

But they had to give up a lot of false knowing to approach the true unknowing.

I want to know beyond knowing, but lots of things get in the way.

Seek the Lord.
Be holy, be courageous.
And seek the Lord...who is beyond knowing. "We are a question in search of the fullness of truth."