Experiencing salvation

 

Experiencing God's salvation is something I need every day. 

Some mornings, like today, I wake up feeling vaguely troubled, a bit confused and lost. I'm so grateful for words like these that bring a salvation experience in the ordinary stuff of life:

Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. 

I’ve called your name. You’re mine.
When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. 

When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down.
When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end
Because I am God, your personal God, The Holy of Israel, your Savior.
I paid a huge price* for you: 

    all of Egypt, with rich Cush and Seba thrown in!
That’s how much you mean to me! 

That’s how much I love you!.

So don’t be afraid: I’m with you.

(Isaiah 43:1-5, The Message)

*This was written for the nation of Israel; the price he paid for me was much greater.

after letting go...

 Let go

Slow down

Stop

Be quiet

Receive

Letting go

 From “Pilgrimage of a Soul” by Phileena Heuertz

(p87) prayer of St. Ignatius:

Take O Lord and receive

All my liberty, my memory,

My understanding and my entire will

All that I have and possess

You have given all to me

To you O Lord I return it

All is yours

Dispose of it all according to your will

Give me your love and grace

For this is sufficient for me.

(p90) As we let go of physical, mental and emotional attachments, we abandon ourselves to God and yield without restraint to God’s love and grace—for this is sufficient for life’s journey. Knowing and being known by God, relationship with God is supreme—the source of our identity and purpose. Expressing our truest identity is possible when we are free of false attachments that try to make claim on who we are. These accessories can become quite burdensome and impede our pilgrimage [the context for this sentence in particular, and the whole paragraph in general is the writer’s experience on the Camino de Santiago]. The spiritual journey has to be made with simplicity and a desire to be free.