inspiration

I am currently reading A Tree Full of Angels by Macrina Wiederkehr, which has proved to be one of the most beautiful, spiritually insightful books I've ever read. I was so thrilled to happen across Macrina's blog Under the Sycamore Tree on Blogster, and yet again I get goosebumps from her poetry about the colloquy between us and the Creator.

I've been reading about a chapter a day of Macrina's book, so that I can dwell on the words and ideas, and think about how I can apply it to my own spiritual life and growth. There are two ideas so far that I have pondered most:

1. That prayer isn't about the words you say to God. It's about opening your heart to Him and letting him in to fill all the spaces. Prayer can actually be reading a story or a poem to God, singing Him a song, dancing for Him! When I think of prayer, I am kneeling, head bowed, listing off my thank-you's and please-heal's and please watch-over's. But God has no limitations, so why should we? Time to take the boring out of prayer!

2. Gathering up the crumbs. This means feeding our ache for the holy with all the little crumbs God leaves us: moments, people, rainbows, words, silence, loneliness. We as humans cannot grasp the whole loaf of God at once; we're too little. But God made us great in our littleness, to recognize He is all around us and giving us infinite opportunities to embrace Him.


I encourage you to go to the link for Macrina Wiederkehr's blog and also read more about her. Whether you are religious or not, I hope you can take some inspiration from her words!

http://www.macrinawiederkehr.com