"We
stand in the midst of nourishment and we starve. We dwell in the land of plenty,
yet we persist on going hungry. Not only do we dwell in the land of plenty; we
have the capacity to be filled with the utter fullness of God (Eph 3:16-19). In
the light of such possibility, what happens? Why do we drag our hearts? Lock up
our souls? Why do we limp? Why do we straddle issues? Why do we live feebly, so
dimply? Why aren't we saints?
Each
of us could come up with individual answers to all these questions, but I want
to suggest here a common cause. The reason we live so dimly and with such
divided hearts is that we have never really learned how to be present with
quality to God, to self, to others, to experiences and events, to all created
things. We have never learned to gather up the crumbs of whatever appears in our
path at every moment. We meet all these lovely gifts only half there. Presence
is what we are all starving for. Real Presence! We are too busy to be present,
too blind to see the nourishment and salvation in the crumbs of life, the
experiences of each moment. Yet the secret of daily life is this: There are no
leftovers.
There
is nothing - no thing, no person, no experience, no thought, no joy or pain -
that cannot be harvested and used for nourishment on our journey to God." (A
Tree Full of Angels by Macrina Wiederkehr)
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