On Easter week…
Instead of a longform post today, I’m starting this week with an open space, a nudge toward listening and contemplation.
Sit with the photo below (taken last weekend in Albuquerque at Richard Rohr’s CAC), and consider:
What could this doorway be inviting you to?
Are you hesitant to move toward the opening?
Tempted to run away?
Willing to stay at the threshold?
Crack the gate open?
Walk all the way through?
In place of YHWH, what word or phrase might God want to place above the doorway for you?
All responses are acceptable, sacred even. We need not be afraid of what we hear our hearts, or bodies, saying. They are simply telling us where we are; and I think if there is any week of the year that invites honest admittance, wrestling and questions, this is the week. God is not offended or threatened by our inquiries, our doubts, our disagreement, our resistance. In fact, I think this week is also a reminder that God makes space for us to be human and bring whatever version of us we have in the moment. This is a door of welcome.
I’ll be back on Friday with the first of three poems that I’ll drop over the course of the weekend. Until then, I’m standing with you at the threshold…
“If we’re trying to understand how much God moves in the world, searching questions will do us so much more good than firm answers.”
- Richard Rohr -