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![A Post-Easter Post…
The weeks of making room for Lent now lead us to make room for LIFE.
At the end of this post, you’ll find wisdom from Evelyn Underhill that stopped me with a humbling recognition of my own plight.
How did this writer who died in 1941 foresee life in 2023?
While I want to blame social media and medical online portals for my scattered mind and soul, clearly the overburdened life is part of the human condition.
And now in the daily routine that follows Easter, we wonder if we will find our way to God’s path for us. We grasp at ALL the things hoping that in our mass acquisition we will stub our toes on THE thing that will draw us to our depths and resurrected peace. But we won’t get centered by spreading out.
Making room for life is an act of defiant spring cleaning. What have we added to our lives in ‘recommended for you’ solutions and even spiritual practices that actually hinder our way to the way?
Whether your hoarder’s nest is in your head or home, spend time doing spiritual spring cleaning. Take stock of what is Extra and what was brought into our precious worlds out of desperate measures.
What might this look like for you?
I will buy less and buy INTO less. Choosing 1-2 spiritual practices to sink into rather than adding more.
Still with me? Settle in with Evelyn’s timely words:
“It is only too easy to be deluded by the modern craving for pace and immediate results, and press on without pausing to examine the quality and character of our supplies, or being sure that we know where we are going and possess the necessary maps.
But this means all the disabling miseries of the unmarked route and unbalanced diet; and at last, perhaps, complete loss of bearings and consequent starvation of the soul....
Lent [and post-Easter life😀] is a good moment for such a spiritual stocktaking; a pause, a retreat from life's busy surface to its solemn deeps. There we can consider our possessions; and discriminate between the necessary stores which have been issued to us, and must be treasured and kept in good order, and the odds and ends which we have accumulated for ourselves.”
Evelyn Underhill
[From Lent with Evelyn Underhill ]
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