Reading to Being Read

November 17, 2011 Andrew Hook

What is this wondrous mystery unfolding within me? I have no words to name it, for that One is above all praise, transcends all words St.Symeon the New Theologian

Deepening what we already have

October 20, 2011 Andrew Hook

I tell you, do not worry about your life Matthew 6:25

Crossing threshold after threshold

October 6, 2011 Andrew Hook

It is morning, afternoon or evening. Begin A Book of Hours, Thomas Merton

A fear of becoming

September 22, 2011 Andrew Hook

The soul, that glancing, Aeolian*, thing, elusive as a butterfly. C G Jung

A grand sweep

September 8, 2011 Andrew Hook

Suilven's a place that gives more than a basket of trout. it opens the space it lives in and a heaven's revealed, in glimpses No accident, Norman MacCaig

Migrations

August 25, 2011 Andrew Hook

Together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. Genesis 11: 31

Our comings and our goings

August 11, 2011 Andrew Hook

The Lord will guard your coming and your going both now and forever. 2 Corinthians 3:18

Faith is not so much a noun as a verb.

The in-between places

On looking at faith transitions we are considering the in-between places in our journey of faith. It’s where there is some form of crossing over or passing on and through some identity, understanding or way of being. It may be a step, a fall, a wrestle into a stage of faith. We may picture it as diving through air into water, entering into and out of cloud or crossing some threshold, maybe shedding a skin.

From what to? To what?

A vast array of feelings may be experienced: anxiety, exhilaration; a sense of having arrived or having exited the familiar. What on earth is actually happening and why and to what end, we wonder. We may discover what helps and what obstructs transition: places, love, imagery, suffering. There are the dynamics of choice: denial, indecision, letting go and grasping onto. Biblical metaphors abound of deserts, of light and dark, of exile and homecoming, of ascent and descent. There is also the role that archetypes and sacraments play in our journey with and towards Jesus. What transition am I currently experiencing? Are any biblical characters currently journeying with you?