What is Emerging?
Posted on March 1, 2020, by Mary Ellen McElroy SL
You may recall in the Advent Reflection 2019 booklet which was inspired by “A Vision for the Future of Religious Life” by Sr. Teresa Maya CCVI, the fourth week was about ‘noticing.’ Teresa challenges us: The future of our lives will be intimately related to our courage to enter into a spirituality of noticing how God’s spirit is stirring new insights and hope around us.
This is a new twist! A spirituality of noticing?
Yes! And Teresa reminds us that we are living in a time where change is everywhere! We need to be awake and watch—to notice what is around us that is changing, what is new… to be horizon watchers… to search the horizons of our life and our times, in watchful prayer… Noticing contemplatively is a new asceticism; noticing with prophetic hope requires a long loving look that holds everything before it, no matter how strange, painful or different.
Oh, dear Loretto friends! How rich and challenging are these insights! The Emerging Forms Committee invites you to join us in musing again on Teresa’s wisdom. As always, we begin by slowing down, letting go of trying to control or change anything, leaning into this moment, this now. Let us open our hearts to embrace it all, to love it all. Notice how God’s spirit is stirring new insights and hope around us. What are you noticing? What is emerging for you?
If you would like to share any of your reflections with us, we’d be happy to receive them. Happy Spring!
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