{"id":2894,"date":"2014-12-12T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/andre\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2017-11-30T03:46:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T03:46:51","slug":"living-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/andre\/significant-sustenance\/living-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Awake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The idea that God can be found in all things has been a rich and welcomed renovation in my life. \u00a0It is the practice of living awake. \u00a0I am coming to understand that the mystery that is God cannot be <\/span>contained by<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> my thoughts and the structures I use to think about God. \u00a0Neither do my experiences of God adequately encapsulate the vastness of our God. \u00a0While healthy thoughts and experiences are integral to a healthy faith, we come to realize God is so much bigger than our thoughts and experience. \u00a0It is here we soon discover a new kind of grace \u2013 a grace to rest in the character of the mysterious God instead of faith in our ability to understand God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">While not jettisoning healthy thinking and experience we simply open the box to God and how s\/He may choose to reveal Himself. \u00a0 Freeing God from the boxes we forge to contain Him does a number of things:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Allows us to discover a much bigger God than we knew before<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To trust God even when we don't understand what is happening<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Allows us to see greater meaning in even the most mundane tasks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Reassures us that we are not alone, and life does have <\/span>meaning<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Demonstrates once again that God is a present, interested and caring. The God, who is genuinely interested in you, \u2013 all of you!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Tim Muldoon wrote this in \u00a0\"Why Young Adults Need Ignatian Spirituality\" :<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To speak about finding God in all things is to admit that no doctrine, no tradition, and no Scripture can exhaust the mystery that is God. It is to remember that our theology, our prayer, and our teaching are limited in their ability to convey this mystery and that as a result we must ultimately stand in awe before God. We who have grown up in a pluralistic world have seen good things in people of varied backgrounds; we know that any talk of ultimate truth must be humble before the vastness of human experience and creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">On the flip side, to speak of God in all things is to remind us that ours is a sacramental understanding of God\u2014God among us in the faces, the words and the gestures that make present the reality of grace. It is to emphasize that God is not distant and \u201cother,\u201d but present and intimate with us. It is to underscore the belief that our lives are not beyond the scope of God\u2019s love, but rather they are already the objects of God\u2019s care.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Some have said that to become aware of God, to be truly alive is like to awaken from sleep. \u00a0Personally, I have found it easy to go through life on autopilot being totally <\/span>oblivious to<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0the fingerprints of God all around me! \u00a0As I continue to learn to see through this new set of lens, I find myself struck by the wonder of the God-who-loves, whom\u00a0I <\/span>discover<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> in <\/span>the every<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> day of life. In the smile of my 8-year-old, a conversation with mom struggling in a toxic marriage, a person dying of cancer, a spouse struggling with loss,\u00a0a busy day at work, a sunset or relaxed moments with friends. \u00a0The most special times I suppose are the quiet times when I am alone, and every once in a while catch a glimpse of the wonder of God in me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea that God can be found in all things has been a rich and welcomed renovation in my life. \u00a0It is the practice of living awake. \u00a0I am coming to understand that the mystery that is God cannot be contained by my thoughts and the structures I use to think about God. \u00a0Neither do my experiences of God adequately&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/andre\/significant-sustenance\/living-awake\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32],"tags":[58,71,129,167,172,213,253,283],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.2 (Yoast SEO v17.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The idea that God can be found in all things has been a rich and welcomed renovation in my life. 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