We search for what already holds us. This reflection explores how presence surrounds us like a river, even while the outer self insists the well is dry.
Brother Virge, you’re so wise, you must be luminous!✨ I love your analogy of presence with a river — water is something so beautiful & basic, but we always take it for granted. Like you’ve said before, we shouldn’t try so hard to think about God — just let ourselves be in the presence of God.🕉️
How many times have i been cooking & i spend 5 minutes digging thru the pantry looking for that one item & glance over at the counter & itz right there. Or went scrambling thru every room in my house frantically looking for my phone & just as I’m about to scream realize I’m holding it in my hand. The list is endless. Tho as a Pisces & the way you so clearly described the obvious we so easily miss in the river, this really hit home the most.
Half the spiritual path is just realizing the thing we’re hunting for is already sitting on the counter, humming quietly, waiting for us to stop tearing the house apart. The river keeps giving hints and we keep checking the pantry. Pisces or not, that’s the human curriculum.
May the obvious keep tapping you on the shoulder until it finally gets your attention.
"You do not need a pilgrimage to feel God." Absolutely, I so agree, your writing on presence is helping, reinforcing, my understanding of where I and we sit and where God sits. So why go on a Pilgrimage? I think the purpose of a pilgrimage is connection through a journey to a significant place. God is within us but also present in everything and maybe a journey is to open that connection to the wider expression of God.
Have I ever journeyed to a specially significant place? Yes. Was I curiously unconnected with it? Yes. Why? Because, despite the effort, I wasn't fully present so perhaps presence is a necessary precursor to pilgrimage.
Brother Virge, you’re so wise, you must be luminous!✨ I love your analogy of presence with a river — water is something so beautiful & basic, but we always take it for granted. Like you’ve said before, we shouldn’t try so hard to think about God — just let ourselves be in the presence of God.🕉️
Presence feels like coming home to my self.
Beautiful! Thank you for unpacking even more of this ah-ha moment. I am spending more awareness swimming in the river every day.
How many times have i been cooking & i spend 5 minutes digging thru the pantry looking for that one item & glance over at the counter & itz right there. Or went scrambling thru every room in my house frantically looking for my phone & just as I’m about to scream realize I’m holding it in my hand. The list is endless. Tho as a Pisces & the way you so clearly described the obvious we so easily miss in the river, this really hit home the most.
Literally home. 💦
Half the spiritual path is just realizing the thing we’re hunting for is already sitting on the counter, humming quietly, waiting for us to stop tearing the house apart. The river keeps giving hints and we keep checking the pantry. Pisces or not, that’s the human curriculum.
May the obvious keep tapping you on the shoulder until it finally gets your attention.
"You do not need a pilgrimage to feel God." Absolutely, I so agree, your writing on presence is helping, reinforcing, my understanding of where I and we sit and where God sits. So why go on a Pilgrimage? I think the purpose of a pilgrimage is connection through a journey to a significant place. God is within us but also present in everything and maybe a journey is to open that connection to the wider expression of God.
Have I ever journeyed to a specially significant place? Yes. Was I curiously unconnected with it? Yes. Why? Because, despite the effort, I wasn't fully present so perhaps presence is a necessary precursor to pilgrimage.