Comments on: An Altar in the World

By: Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:55:22 +0000

Thanks all for the beautiful comments and reminders of how to practice reverence. You have blessed me deeply.

By: Beth Knight

Beth Knight — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:18:04 +0000

It was a great pleasure to hear this author in person recently. And thankyou Rebecca for a lovely post.
For me – i experience reverence when I am kind and gentle to myself and stop pressing so hard. As a professor at Asbury said recently: God is enough for me and I am enough for God. If I/we “get” this then life becomes more tender and we abide in God in a way that feels more loving and reverent.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:35:27 +0000

I often sense a ” call to reverence” in my body. My head turns gently for no known reason……
and I am made aware of the Presence of the Sacred. This sensation is almost always wrapped in silence……and I simply sense it is an invitation into reverence.

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:53:33 +0000

Reverence (and everything else that practice entails) appear when I sit for meditation, when I feel my breath after a few awkward ‘hello there, breath.’ And definitely, when I walk, when a scene or image calls me, when I sit to draw or paint it, while I am in the act of drawing and painting, and after it, when I look at the result of my communion with Reverence.

As directee, I experience Reverence during an SD session between me and my SD.

The practice of paying attention is what I try to develop and cultivate in me. Drawing helps on that because it helps me see what I do not normally see. I would love to see like Thomas Merton –

“Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts, where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time.”