For a class on 'Spiritual Classics', I wrote the following as part of answering the question "what is the spiritual journey?" Subsequently, this is how I feel about writing in general.
For the sake of being transparent (at least with myself). I can quote and cite a number of books and individuals who hold and have held distinctive ideologies on spirituality, but when it comes to expressing what it is that I feel, think, and “know” about the spiritual journey, I feel like I’m at a lost for words, or at the very least, have a minuscule amount to say. Though I can say whether I agree or disagree with the points made of scholars and saints, I simply don’t feel that I am equipped to make such points myself. Ironically, my point resembles the very beginning of Teresa of Avila’s writings in the "Interior Castle";
“Few tasks which I have been commanded to undertake by obedience have been so difficult as this present one writing about matters relating to prayer… because I do not feel that the Lord has given me either the spirituality or the desire for it…But, as I know that strength arising from obedience has a way of simplifying things that which seem impossible, my will very gladly resolves to attempt this task…”
Touche Teresa of Avila, touche indeed. Consequently, I agree and ask for the same thing that Teresa ('T-Dogg' as her friends called her) did:
“May He who has helped me by doing other and more difficult things for me help also in this: in His mercy I put my trust.”
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