Oh Cameron….this is just what I needed to hear today! Loosen our hold….
“Faith, real faith, isn’t about muscling the world into submission. It’s about learning to feel the unseen currents that hold us up even when everything shakes. Jesus called it “the peace that passes understanding.”
I am reminded of two events here. One is the first air pocket that my commercial flight encountered. I was riding in an old Vanguard airplane and we suddenly a lot closer to the ground. No air below us until we hit another current. And later, I read Isaiah 40:31. Hope in my Triune God is what sustains me. And if anyone had said that I would be serving in my third church denomination in just over 40 years of ministry, I would have said you were dreaming.
Such as this comes only from the breath of God that started the winds of creation. I am mindful of St. Patrick's Breastplate in that Jesus is before, behind, to my left and to my right, above me and below me. Rev. Scott Brown, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Your writing is such an inspiration. Gorgeous and profound. The flying and allowing metaphor feels like a message for my late son, Elliot, forever 26, who adored vintage airplanes -- particularly WWI, and died flying off his motorcycle on a soaring highway entrance ramp. Control is an illusion, indeed, and the wind often has an agenda we cannot fathom. Wishing us all the peace and faith to let go.
I find this message precious in wisdom the wisdom of God for us. It is marvellous mystery. Too many have been taught the rigidity of self made surety - such a fabrication that easily falls apart when taken into the roughest of terrain of our daily lives. Thank you. I keep relearning it. Way to go!
Hi Rev. Cameron " Real faith is about learning to feel the unseen currents that hold us up even when everything shakes." This has landed with many of your readers. Both my husband and son are airline pilots so I am especially drawn to your spiritual writings with aviation analogies! I have always been fascinated with your ability to be both a right and left brain thinker! If you fly as well as you write- you are an outstanding pilot too. I tease my husband sometimes when I say we will get by on a wing and a prayer lol! Keep up your meaningful ministry. You are making a difference. I frequently quote you in my Sunday messages! Diane Knowles-Minister Trinity United Church- the heart in the heart of Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
Thank you for this. Such truth expressed with such clarity and even beauty is truly nourishment for my soul. I really love the prayer you shared as well.
Douglas Rushkoff recently re-mentioned that his own activism has shifted radically from “agent of change” to “agent of care.” This is not be use we don’t want and work for change, but rather that we recognize the centrality of real love as the only generative living source of change
We may have all the godlike technology and clever plans in the world, but without love, we are nothing. We can face the mystery of our own individual mortality and our own species mortality only with love. The First Nations Version of the Love Chapter says it this way: the road of love has no end.
We will all die. Our species will pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away. But to love each precious moment in loving kindness brings us the deep sense of sufficiency that cannot be experienced by those who are obsessed with control.
So many people asked Jesus “what must I do to have eternal life?” Jesus pointed them into loving relationship here and now.
See of course, especially, the Good Samaritan.
Jesus showed that we must move away from the false security of temporal wealth and power and control and into the hospitality of poverty and humility. Living close to earth and embracing our absolute vulnerability is the way.
We are fugitives being transformed in flight. We start from the dark mystery of the womb and we move to the dark mystery of the tomb.
Only love makes suffering bearable. Only love allows us to experience the sufficiency of life — of the gift of each precious moment of kinship with all our relations.
Oh Cameron….this is just what I needed to hear today! Loosen our hold….
“Faith, real faith, isn’t about muscling the world into submission. It’s about learning to feel the unseen currents that hold us up even when everything shakes. Jesus called it “the peace that passes understanding.”
Amen! Thank you and blessings!
To “loosen our hold,”
to ease pressure, steady breath,
resist less. Ride wind?!
...
“Currents... hold us up
even when everything shakes.”
“Lift enough... to trust.”
I am reminded of two events here. One is the first air pocket that my commercial flight encountered. I was riding in an old Vanguard airplane and we suddenly a lot closer to the ground. No air below us until we hit another current. And later, I read Isaiah 40:31. Hope in my Triune God is what sustains me. And if anyone had said that I would be serving in my third church denomination in just over 40 years of ministry, I would have said you were dreaming.
Such as this comes only from the breath of God that started the winds of creation. I am mindful of St. Patrick's Breastplate in that Jesus is before, behind, to my left and to my right, above me and below me. Rev. Scott Brown, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Your writing is such an inspiration. Gorgeous and profound. The flying and allowing metaphor feels like a message for my late son, Elliot, forever 26, who adored vintage airplanes -- particularly WWI, and died flying off his motorcycle on a soaring highway entrance ramp. Control is an illusion, indeed, and the wind often has an agenda we cannot fathom. Wishing us all the peace and faith to let go.
I find this message precious in wisdom the wisdom of God for us. It is marvellous mystery. Too many have been taught the rigidity of self made surety - such a fabrication that easily falls apart when taken into the roughest of terrain of our daily lives. Thank you. I keep relearning it. Way to go!
Hi Rev. Cameron " Real faith is about learning to feel the unseen currents that hold us up even when everything shakes." This has landed with many of your readers. Both my husband and son are airline pilots so I am especially drawn to your spiritual writings with aviation analogies! I have always been fascinated with your ability to be both a right and left brain thinker! If you fly as well as you write- you are an outstanding pilot too. I tease my husband sometimes when I say we will get by on a wing and a prayer lol! Keep up your meaningful ministry. You are making a difference. I frequently quote you in my Sunday messages! Diane Knowles-Minister Trinity United Church- the heart in the heart of Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
I have discovered that breathing with the Divine is being breathed by the Divine. We are never alone on this journey of life.
WORKING TOGETHER
We shape our self
To fit this world
And by the world
Are shaped again.
The visible
And the invisible
Working together
In common cause,
To produce the miraculous.
I am thinking of the way
The intangible air
Passed at speed
Round a shaped wing
Easily
Holds our weight.
So may we, in this life
Trust
To those elements
We have yet to see
Or imagine,
And look for the true
Shape of our own self,
By forming it well
To the great
Intangibles about us.
- David Whyte, The House of Belonging
It seems as though your message comes when I need it the most. Thank you for all your posts but especially this one.
Love this!!!
Thank you for this. Such truth expressed with such clarity and even beauty is truly nourishment for my soul. I really love the prayer you shared as well.
Douglas Rushkoff recently re-mentioned that his own activism has shifted radically from “agent of change” to “agent of care.” This is not be use we don’t want and work for change, but rather that we recognize the centrality of real love as the only generative living source of change
We may have all the godlike technology and clever plans in the world, but without love, we are nothing. We can face the mystery of our own individual mortality and our own species mortality only with love. The First Nations Version of the Love Chapter says it this way: the road of love has no end.
We will all die. Our species will pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away. But to love each precious moment in loving kindness brings us the deep sense of sufficiency that cannot be experienced by those who are obsessed with control.
So many people asked Jesus “what must I do to have eternal life?” Jesus pointed them into loving relationship here and now.
See of course, especially, the Good Samaritan.
Jesus showed that we must move away from the false security of temporal wealth and power and control and into the hospitality of poverty and humility. Living close to earth and embracing our absolute vulnerability is the way.
We are fugitives being transformed in flight. We start from the dark mystery of the womb and we move to the dark mystery of the tomb.
Only love makes suffering bearable. Only love allows us to experience the sufficiency of life — of the gift of each precious moment of kinship with all our relations.
once again, you have completely taken my breath away.
I appreciate you.