From a Catholic Contemplative

"I believe we carry within a Divine Life that calls us into a fuller life of love than we generally imagine possible. Jesus and other great spiritual teachers have tried to covey this to us, but theirs can be a message that seems almost 'too good to be true' most days. Often it can feel like quite a struggle to believe in our calling to be a revalation of the Divine, a light to the world, to put it in a poetic form. Humans have been called by Roman Catholic theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 'Earth come to consciousness'.

It can feel like a tall order at times to live into our collective call as human beings when we must face our own imperfections.

Yet, I believe that ultimately faith is about trust in a Divine Presence, who is Mystery that we can know only in part and who we come to know in diverse ways. It is also about trust in that Divinity at work within us, even in our broken condition, forgiving our weaknesses, and beckoning us to newness of life and deepening love through a transforming Holy Spirit at work in us, and in all creation.

I have come to understand that we are in 'paradigm shifting' times that call for a sincere sensitivity to one another's stories, experiences and new learnings."

~Eileen Knoff at Spiritual Directions, LLC