Calling

In a weird twist (well, for lately anyway) I’m going to get all “God-ly” on you. Well, you know what I mean. I read something tonight about that pivotal moment when your consciousness shifts, when you have been unsettled/searching/longing – and you reach the moment of clarity, of abandonment, when all becomes clear. Christians call this the call of God, and I’m sure there are many other ways of looking at this also. This makes me think of that moment in “Eat Pray Love” where she is on the bathroom floor in absolute despair, unable to sink lower…and there it is. There she finds it. Clarity. Future. Direction. And most of all…hope.

“God’s call is mysterious; it comes in the darkness of faith. It is so fine, so subtle, that it is only with the deepest silence we can hear it. And yet nothing is so decisive and overpowering for an individual, nothing surer or stronger. God is always calling us! But there are decisive moments in this call, moments which leave a permanent mark on us. In these moments, the soul has understood that it must let itself be carried, that it must abandon itself to [God], that  alone it can do nothing, that God can do everything. And if it remains still and motionless as though bound in the faithfulness of God, it will quickly realise that things have changed, and that progress, though still painful is in the right direction…”

Carlo Caretto, An Iona Prayer book p 121

~ by Rah on August 22, 2009.