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What transforms you?
Life is more interconnected than we sometimes give it credit. There are “coincidences” and little reminders throughout ordinary life that can speak to the whole of our life. In yesterday’s post Gym Ministry, Father Greg made a comment about just this thing when he wrote, “Lots of connections between our “gym life” and the rest of life!”
So what for you are some of those other places that speak to you of your whole life? This is an important question because sometimes in working out the “smaller” or seemingly less significant aspects of life, we find we are changed, deepened, transformed.
Writer and friend Vinita Hampton Wright, whose birthday we celebrate today (Happy Birthday!), echoes this same thought in a recent post on her blog Wisdom Tree. She speaks about the creative process of writing and how writers necessarily tap into their own story — indeed their very soul — as they go about their work. Even though Vinita writes about writing, her words can also to apply to other “works” and experiences which engage us day to day. When we face our own story — even in a gym weight room or interacting with customers or sitting at the kitchen table, or staring at a computer screen — we can tap into our soul and allow a seemingly mundane moment or task or even a significant moment to be transformative. That is the activity of the Spirit of God working around us and within us.
Writes Vinita, “So, please, receive the story of yourself. Listen to it, care for it, write it if necessary. Say yes to life–and thus yes to creative movement.”
P.S. For more on Vinita and writing and faith, see our blog post On Writing Spiritually.
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I had a discussion with my spiritual director yesterday about teaching. We discussed how teaching for me mirrors my experience of the Eucharist. In a Eucharistic celebration we take the very body of Jesus into our own and He strengthens us and nourishes us. In my class, I ask Jesus to come and fill me with His strength, spirit, love and wisdom. It is not me teaching those precious souls, but Jesus, through me. So you ask what transforms me? Teaching has transformed me, my relationship with Jesus and my whole outlook on life and spirituality. Thanks for such a wonderful question Sister Julie.