03 February 2019
Amis letter 02/05
A last conversation with Meister Eckhart… for now.
Dear Amis
A Gospel scene that always intrigues me is the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus. Someone called him Jesus’ night-disciple. For me it is the iconic spiritual-direction scene. Someone coming to find guidance, wisdom, …God! To me there is intimacy about this conversation. The type of talk you would have in the wee hours under the South African bushveld sky, when then the fire has almost burned to cinders. The time when soul-stuff comes to the surface. There you are with someone wise… with Meister Eckhart.
When either of you dare to break the beauty of the midnight-silence, it is with a graceful question… or comment.
“Just look at the stars…”
Meister Eckhart responds:
“Isness is so noble. No creature is so tiny that it lacks isness. If a caterpillar falls off a tree, it climbs up a wall in in order to preserve it isness. Where there is isness, there is God…”
A silence falls upon you.
Isness. God is.
“Every single creature is a book about God.”
“Every creature is a word of God.”
A small spark explodes out of the fire.
Meister Eckhart responds:
“Earth cannot escape heaven. Flee it by going up or flee it by going down, heaven still invades the earth, energizes it, makes it sacred.”
“God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk.”
Silence again…
Meister Eckart speaks:
“God finds joy and rapture in us.”
The big silence of the deep sky enfolds you.
His words and thoughts come to us
in moments of silence and reminds us of God’s presence.
Perhaps
you too
could listen to the silence
that surrounds us
and know…
and know.
Until next week
With kind love!
Until next week
Jan
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To ponder on…
Could you have a few moments for silence
and receive your isness as a gift – again?
Can you appreciate the isness
of all the things around you
of the people that blesses you
with their presence?