Author: alwaysbridging

Currently Disoriented

Occasionally I suffer vertigo. I hate it. And no wonder! Speedy yoga move + Ramadan + Holy Week + full moon + Passover + a friend’s back surgery + first Spanish quiz of the quarter….the list goes on and on.

The good news: I know the Epley Maneuver. I am reading a great book. I pray in community on Thursday mornings. And recently, when I bike to the university for class, I travel by this magnificent crop of cherry trees.

I still hate the dizzies. And, with God’s Grace, I am learning to lean into their benign-ness.

I’m “okay.”

“Just” feelings.

Life.

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The Holy Week services have begun. Weeknights at 7 PM. Come and see.

Pondering at the Cross

In Jerusalem, we chanted between stations. Yesterday we sang and listened to the musician improvise on his recorder, including riffs of hymns and the Trisagion:

Santo Dios, Santo Poderoso, Santo Inmortal,
Ten piedad de nosotros.

In Jerusalem I read Station 3 “Jesus falls for the first time.” Yesterday, during our bilingual version of the Stations of the Cross, I read Station 3 and Station 9, “Jesus falls for the third time.”

A priest told me once that when the same phrase of the birthday blessing is read over and over to me year after year, maybe I just haven’t learned from it yet.

I wonder if Holy Week has something to do with falling for me this year? Jesus will be there already, having experienced all of humanity—the good, the bad and the ugly.

Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy upon us.

*Photo by Stuart Meeks

Rinsed Air, Rinsed Mind

Gifted with a walk to the beach. Not unlike labyrinth meditation.

First, hail to match my struggle. Then blustery downpour, finally sprinkle. No rain, a slight breeze for the mile beside the sea. By the time I reached the pavement again, deep peace had returned.

I could ask curiously,

“What can I give today?”