To Recover is to Reimagine.
In Richard Rohr’s daily meditations today, he shares the inspiration of Jennifer Bailey.
https://cac.org/daily-meditations/recover-repair-reimagine/
Now, Think patterns. When we recognize patterns, we understand our path in this life. Where are we going, and why are we moving in that direction?
Richard Rohr focuses on understanding Order-Disorder-Reorder.
Joesph Cardijn showed us how to See-Discern-Act.
Jennifer Bailey enlightens us to take the next step to Recover-Repair-Reimagine.
Understanding that our lives are never linear is a key to spiritual growth. When we are open to the spirit, we often experience synchronicity, a meaningful coincidence that guides us.
We often find ourselves, our friends and our worst enemies stuck in the ORDER phase of life. It is where we grew up; it was necessary as a phase in our lives. At a young age, our minds, brains, and bodies were growing and forming, challenging and understanding, rebelling and accepting.
Later in life, as we look back to the stage in life called “order,” we sense it was a warm, fuzzy in our lives. All was right. All was good, so we think. We become blinded by the order because we refuse to let go or change.
Richard Rohr, Joseph Cardijn, and Jennifer Bailey understand the transformative power of spiritual thinking. It is a cognitive, meditative, and reflective process that goes beyond the ordinary boundaries of the mind and our daily lives and allows us to reach into the realms of higher consciousness. To ask, Why me? What am I doing, and where are we going? Unlike conventional thinking processes we use daily to solve business and organizational problems, which usually invoke logical reasoning and analysis, spiritual thinking requires us to stop the bus we are riding on and look at the profound mysteries of our existence, purpose, and interconnectedness to each other as human beings. It is a contemplative journey that inspires you and me to explore the depths of our inner selves and connect with a broader, more transcendent understanding of reality. In an age of emerging technology, we are facing questions about the value of our lives, the good, the bad, and the ugly of artificial intelligence. Because of this, we must discover, act, recover, and reimagine who we are and what it is all about.
Louis J. Putz, CSC, a follower of the Cardijn method, coined a phrase about life: “There are three stages: the age of learning, the age of earning, and the age of returning.”
All too often, in the age of earning, we lose track of what it is all about; we are way too busy. We find our lives deep in the forest, hugging a tree, and often, we hug it so tight we get bark in our teeth. But there is a forest where that tree is, and we hug it. When we see the beauty of the forest and the landscape of life, we see God and realize we can return, reimagine, and recover.
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