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While listening to the sermon Patrick preached likening the spiritual experience to a baseball field, I was a bit lost, not being a baseball fan. I do know what it’s like to run the bases from physical education in my school years when we split into teams and spent the remaining period time attempting to play the game. I was fine as long as I had a good hitter after me, assuming I made it to first base and didn’t strike out. Maybe this next hitter would hit a long one that would send me traveling to more bases… if I was lucky.
How do I associate this with my faith journey? Seems many times my progress happens as I am pushed along by other forces. Are these angelic forces active in my life or is it the way the Universe aligns me with the Divine purpose God has laid out for me? I cannot say, but I do feel the impact and guidance.
There have been a couple of times when I really felt Gods’ presence with me, and those experiences were truly amazing. I am without explanation as to how to duplicate those special times, but I do know that God has spoken to me and I am without doubt afterwards.
I strongly believe in the power of prayer in my life and the lives of others, just as I believe that God is taking care of me by directing my life. But where I am on that ball field? Sometimes it’s first, to third, to home and back to second. Other times I might not even make it to a base before my path is changed. Does that matter where I run? I do feel that what does matter is that God guides me while I listen for His voice in everything I do and all that I am.
God is the cause and at the same time, the effect. God is the rhyme and the reason. It is God that allows me my creative time and I see God in the results of my work. God is all knowing and all powerful, a loving Father who gently keeps me on track. But when I’m not listening, He has to “get my attention” so I can hear His voice.
May we all be tuned in and listening for that still small voice whispering our name.
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