Meditation reading for Friday November 1, 2024
SEARCHING FOR GUIDANCE —
I have plumbed the depths of despair and have found them not bottomless — Thomas Hardy
All of us at some time have reached a spiritual dead end. We feel alone, that life is cruel and pointless. We can find no reason for what is happening to us or our loved ones, and we can find no comfort. And when we turn to God, we hear no response. Do we conclude there is no Divine comfort?
When clouds have covered the sky for days, do we believe there is no sun? Like the clouds blocking the sun, our disconnect from God is a temporary situation. And maybe God’s apparent silences have a purpose.
It may not occur to us in times of despair that God has not deserted us; we have deserted God. As taken from the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, “It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us”.
Today, I will keep my mind open and look for divine inspiration in all my activities.