ORDINARY MYSTICISM
What the medieval mystics found is our invitation too. Not to seek out dramatic experience for the sake of dramatic experience. But to look at what is around us, to look again, to look more closely, to open ourselves to the God who lives among all this and who invites us to see differently.
In her essay on mysticism, in Amazing Grace, Kathleen Norris writes, “I find that I appreciate mysticism best in it’s most ordinary manifestation, as a means for tapping into the capacity for holiness that exists in us all.”
BLESSING
In the midst of your life:
the daily of it,
the ordinary of it,
the noontime and night of it,
let there be moments
that open to you
the hallowed and holy of it.
Jan L. Richardson, In the Sanctuary of Women, A companion for Reflection & Prayer: The Book of Hildegard of Bingen(Nashville, Upper Room Books, 2010), p.191.
