THE PRACTICING CHURCH
  • Our Story
    • Parish
    • Beliefs
    • Values
    • Team
  • Welcome
    • Connect to Community
    • Current Happenings
  • Renewal
  • Media
    • Blog
    • Listen
  • Give
  • Contact

The Blog

The Practicing church

The Sacred Ordinary

5/16/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
We are invited into the sacred ordinary. This Ignatian idea that God is in all things. Every moment pregnant with the grace of God. God has moved into the neighborhood [John 1], the presence of Christ fills the whole earth, and the Spirit of God lives within. Love. Light. Life. This is God revealed to us and to all of Creation groaning for redemption.

We are often drawn to the extra-ordinary and to the spectacular — but most of our lived experience consists of the very mundane, everyday realities. So how do we receive this Love, Light and Life in our own lives in a way that heals us and liberates us? How do we participate in this Love, Light and Life here on the ground? Here in our schools, workplaces and neighborhoods?

The temptation is to think we must do more or be more. We are waiting for the stars to align until we can be who we are meant to be and can participate in God's work of renewal. We are waiting for that elusive moment when we will have time.

What if we realized that Christ was already here -- in every moment, just waiting to be invited into our everyday?

This is the wisdom of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, among so many others, who said:

“It takes three things 
to attain a sense of significant being: 
God, 
A Soul, 
and a Moment.
And the three 
are always here.”

God. Soul. A Moment. God is always here. God's love is near. Present to us. Beckoning us from the busy. Inviting us from the many demands of life to experience the depths of God's presence.

So let us love the ordinary. Let us love the closeness of God and the sacred, here and now. Let us cherish the everyday, the every breath, the place where we are. For surely Christ is in all of it.

Christ be beside me, 
Christ be before me, 
Christ be behind me, 
King of my heart.
Christ be within me, 
Christ be below me, 
Christ be above me, 
never to part.
Christ on my right hand, 
Christ on my left hand, 
Christ all around me, 
shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping, 
Christ in my sitting, 
Christ in my rising, 
light of my life.
Christ be in all hearts thinking about me; 
Christ be on all tongues telling of me; 
Christ be the vision in eyes that see me; 
in ears that hear me, Christ ever be. 
-St. Patricks's Breastplate Prayer

by Jessica Ketola
​
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    the practicing church

    We are a group of ordinary people with an extraordinary dream - to join God in the renewal of all things by engaging in practices that ground us in the love of God.

    Archives

    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    January 2022
    September 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    May 2014

    Categories

    All
    Advent
    Angela Ferrara
    Beatitudes
    Black Lives Matter
    Carrie Cates
    Community
    Community Values
    Contemplative Spirituality
    Easter
    Epiphany
    Fire In My Bones
    Freedom In Constraint
    Good News
    Holy Spirit
    Hope
    Incarnation
    Inward Journey
    Jessica
    Jessica Ketola
    Justice
    Lament
    Lent
    Love
    Neighboring
    On Earth As It Is In Heaven
    Pentecost
    Radical Hospitality
    Reconciliation
    Rose Swetman
    Sabbath
    Sacred Ordinary
    Soul Force
    Soulful Living
    Story
    Summer In The Psalms
    The Dream
    The Practicing Church

    RSS Feed

Browse
Home
Our Story
Renewal
Media

Blog
Give
About
Our Story
Parish
​Beliefs
Values
Team
Connect
Welcome
Community
What's Poppin
Media
​
Blog
Podcast



Join the Conversation
Contact Us​
Picture
© 2015 The Practicing Church