Comments on: A Vocation Journey: the road to Damascus http://www.mendicantsoul.info/2008/09/02/a-vocation-journey-the-road-to-damascus/ random acts of writing from an itinerant soul Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:28:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: brnathan http://www.mendicantsoul.info/2008/09/02/a-vocation-journey-the-road-to-damascus/comment-page-1/#comment-51 brnathan Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:47:10 +0000 http://www.mendicantsoul.info/?p=140#comment-51 Dear Br Andrew. Yes long time no hear. But it is good to hear from you again. I am beginning to think spiritual journey's are like one long pregnancy. Not that I, as a man, can claim to know what birthing is really like. However, I do get a sense from watching friends and family go through it, there are many great moments and moments we'd rather forget, and moments we'd rather we didn't have to deal with. But in the end the birth of new life in and the beauty of a the newborn seem to make all those morning sicknesses and swollen feelings go away. In the spiritual journey there are great highs, the moments when we meet God face to face in a unique and profoundly mystical way. Those moments when the veil between God and us is lifted. Then there are great lows when we feel so far removed from God that we even wonder if there is a God at all. We certainly find it hard to see God in people and events around us, let along a personal face to face enounter with God. I guess the test in faithfulness if being able to ride out the storms and come out the other side intact as a spiritual being, and not being put off by the world and people who are in it, and certainly not being distracted from our faith because of the inconsiderate and often unthinking unkind things people do in our lives. How I remember feeling lost as I felt left out side of God's house and feeling like the homeless unwelcome stranger as I moved from one place to another to find acceptance with God, when all the time God was standing with me, waiting for me to accept him. Keep the faith my friend. Nathan Dear Br Andrew.

Yes long time no hear. But it is good to hear from you again. I am beginning to think spiritual journey’s are like one long pregnancy. Not that I, as a man, can claim to know what birthing is really like. However, I do get a sense from watching friends and family go through it, there are many great moments and moments we’d rather forget, and moments we’d rather we didn’t have to deal with. But in the end the birth of new life in and the beauty of a the newborn seem to make all those morning sicknesses and swollen feelings go away.

In the spiritual journey there are great highs, the moments when we meet God face to face in a unique and profoundly mystical way. Those moments when the veil between God and us is lifted.

Then there are great lows when we feel so far removed from God that we even wonder if there is a God at all. We certainly find it hard to see God in people and events around us, let along a personal face to face enounter with God.

I guess the test in faithfulness if being able to ride out the storms and come out the other side intact as a spiritual being, and not being put off by the world and people who are in it, and certainly not being distracted from our faith because of the inconsiderate and often unthinking unkind things people do in our lives.

How I remember feeling lost as I felt left out side of God’s house and feeling like the homeless unwelcome stranger as I moved from one place to another to find acceptance with God, when all the time God was standing with me, waiting for me to accept him.

Keep the faith my friend.

Nathan

]]> By: Br Andrew efo http://www.mendicantsoul.info/2008/09/02/a-vocation-journey-the-road-to-damascus/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Br Andrew efo Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:52:06 +0000 http://www.mendicantsoul.info/?p=140#comment-48 Dear Nathan, I am moved by your Damascus experience, it resonates with encounters I have had with the Spiritual in the past. Currently un-churched, recently disappointed again by the frustrations of Parish Life... Since moving here to Maroubra I have walked passed every church of every denomination; though I have a deep yearning for Community I am not compelled by any of them. I have been asked by another at Pulse for my Testimony of Faith, but right now feel I have none left. The EFO has missed our last 3 monthly meetings, which is the sole contact I have with Community. The web address @ brother-andrew is ot launched, it is a new Domain and I haev to transfer files. Br Andrew Dear Nathan,
I am moved by your Damascus experience, it resonates with encounters I have had with the Spiritual in the past.

Currently un-churched, recently disappointed again by the frustrations of Parish Life… Since moving here to Maroubra I have walked passed every church of every denomination; though I have a deep yearning for Community I am not compelled by any of them.

I have been asked by another at Pulse for my Testimony of Faith, but right now feel I have none left.

The EFO has missed our last 3 monthly meetings, which is the sole contact I have with Community.

The web address @ brother-andrew is ot launched, it is a new Domain and I haev to transfer files.
Br Andrew

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