Two Wings of AwarenessThe reflection that you are about to read came to me in a group email. It is a beautiful reflection for our
time. Two wings of awareness, from John Philip Newell From John Philip Newell’s blog on the Heartbeat website: 24th March, 2020: Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th-century Christian mystic, said that we need to fly with two wings of awareness. The one wing is an awareness of life’s glory and beauty. The other is an awareness of life’s pain and suffering. If we try to fly with only one of these, she said, we will be like an eagle trying to fly with only one wing. In other words, we will not truly see. We are living through a moment in time that invites a new strength of awareness. We are hearing stories from around the world today of terrible suffering and loss. And, at the same time, we are hearing accounts of great beauty of spirit and love. I pray for all of us these days that we may be strong in our seeing and in our loving of another. As one of the prayers in Sounds of the Eternal puts it: Let us serve love with our strength this day, let us serve love with our strength. In heart and mind and body this day let us serve love. Heartbeat John Philip Newell is a former Warden of Iona Abbey, a teacher and an author. Comments are closed.
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AuthorRev. Laura Sundberg has
been in ministry at St James for the past 12 years. This is my first blog. Let
me know if you find this remotely interesting or inspiring, it is a two way
conversation as we meet the Holy. Archives
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