At the advice of my Tech Team (husband and son 😊) I have moved from Hey Mail to Substack and brought you, my Camino friends with me. Don’t feel bad if you unsubscribe—I truly understand. Life is full.
My hope is to be more consistent at writing and I have received a little nudge to help: my first paid writing gig! Look for me at the Catholic Virginian, where I’ll be contributing quarterly to the column Believe as We Pray. It’s a dream come true and a way to hold me accountable. Which apparently I need.
—Why is it that it is so hard to do what we love, what is good for us?—
I hope you don’t mind me practicing on you here in between columns. 😉
What to Expect
From my earliest conversion experiences, before I ever understood what they represented, I’ve been drawn to the idea of thresholds. After years of seeking I have come to know them as the “thin places”. More recently I learned the term “liminal space,” for the erudite.
They all speak to the “in-between” of the physical and spiritual worlds. It is where we Christians are called to live-“in the world but not of it”, in the “already-not yet” space God opened when he entered this creation. It is a very Catholic, sacramental life of “both-and”, in a world which is determined to divide us by forcing us into an either-or existence.
The Camino was a mountaintop experience FULL of these “places”. I am truly hoping this little job will help me discipline myself to slow down and notice the “threads” back in the valley, to pull them until I find myself at a thin place. Nothing would make me happier than to take you with me, to a place of clarity and peace, joy and wonder. God is so good.
My goal is to set The Table of Plenty: a domestic table filled with all the good things of life: family and friends—that’s you!—, food and drink, some fresh flowers and beeswax candles (I’m obsessed)…. to put the gifts of creation in an order that makes space to just Be. Together. My hope is that it will be somewhere we can chew on matters of faith, praise God with gratitude for all of creation, and roast and carve the beastly into bite size pieces, using it for fuel that nourishes.
So come, let’s feast at the Table of Plenty, in the midst of a world that will tell us we’re starving from lack and scarcity, that we should all be very afraid. Of everything. All the time.
Be not afraid. God will provide for all that we need!
As always, I’m right there with you!
Looking forward to more of your inspirational writing. Would love to connect when we are in VA in July.