What is
God Asking of You???
One thing
that I absolutely don’t miss out on each month is my time with my spiritual
director. This is a spiritual practice
that I have taken on since coming to seminary.
It is important to explore my own spirituality, areas that I can improve
on, and just sit in the pain or the joy that I might be feeling. I get to do all of that with my spiritual
director each and every month. It is an hour that I cherish with every fiber of
my being.
In my last
session with my spiritual director we talked about certain things that God is
asking of me. I think sometimes we can
get caught up in our frustrations with life and think, God why are you doing
this to me? In fact, God isn’t doing
anything to us, He is asking us to be in the place that we are in that very
moment and time in our lives. So, what
is God asking of me? He is asking me to
go to seminary, to be a daughter, a sister, a single person (this is one that I
don’t understand at all but I am working hard on embracing, at least for this
time in my life), to be His child, to live in tension, to live in joy, the list
goes on and on. He is asking me to be
Mary Balfour.
What is
God asking of you? I would like to hear
your answers or at least ask you to think about the question. It is so enlightening to think about that
question, what is God asking of me? Instead of what is God doing to me? It changes your whole thought process, and I
have been thinking about it all week.
Even though I can’t understand many of the things that God is asking of
me, the point is that He is asking. For
that I can only be grateful.
Blessings as
the ride continues… Mary Balfour
I once heard about Rabbi Zusya, a Chasidic master who lived in the 1700’s. One day he said, “When I get to the heavenly court, God will not ask me, ‘Why weren’t you Moses?’ Rather he will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?'"
ReplyDeleteThanks for challenging me to be me. I suppose that no one else can be. Thanks for being Mary-Balfour and making SSW such a wonderful place to study and pray.