Saturday, January 18, 2014

Focus and Places, Sacred Space

I have a busy day to day.  Washing breakfast dishes I was asking Jesus to be with us this day, helping me to stay focused and to give me the grace to hear and to be heard speaking to the best man in all of us.  I was thinking of the little things that need to be attended to, like the dishes, right away.  It can seem obsessive, but really, it FREES me to hear Jesus. FOCUS.   Order gives us Focus.  I got on the computer to right this note for myself that allows me not to have a notebook or paper to keep.  I can still look over my fruitful reflections.  


Yesterday, David was trying to find his Japanese Coach. It had been lost for several days.  The last time I had it, I also had a piece of garbage in my hand.  I was asking God to not allow me to throw it away as I made my way to the garbage can.  I had some other things in my hand and I had fixed in my mind the Rhonda of 27 years ago that would be keys and important things in secure places that I could not remember.  I would find my keys in the linen closet between folded towels.  So when the Japanese coach was out of my hand, I could not recall where it went. (These things are very small and easy to loose)

David continued to ask me where it was every day for a week after that.  I would tell him to look various places, and I would get up and look in various places.  Finally, I was really present to David and told him, David, I know I put it somewhere, we need to ask Jesus where it is because I can't find it in my brain or in the house. So I prayed, "Jesus....Come Holy Spirit, guide my actions and my steps today so that the DS is found right in front of us in our everyday, as soon as possible, because I am tired of looking for it."   Then I walked across the room and looked in the DS case sitting where it should be. I merely had to open it as if it were a book and there was the Japanese Coach.     I looked up at David and laughed.  I am not as disorganized as I imagined.  He began to laugh.  "David, a miracle has happened, the Japanese Coach went where it belonged, not in the linen closet where we might never find it."  With that DS game in my hand, I had imaged my old Messy self, and it got the better of my memory.  A lot of healing has taken place since then. A place for everything and everything in its place. SACRED SPACE!   "David, time to thank God!  We give you thanks almighty God, for all the benefits we have received through Christ our Lord, you who live and reign forever and ever amen!"  "Giggle Giggle", I love his giggles. 

Thanks to Sandra Felton too!