RAINBOWS

r.r.lackney, liturgical architect, sketch



The Spritual Arch of Hope

Our Miracle: We Pass Beneath The Spiritual Arch of Hope as

We Enter The Gates of Paradise

Recently, I visited Gethsemani, a holy place.

“Did you see any miracles?” One of my friends asked.

Now, a miracle is a mysterious force that enters into our lives and profoundly changes our personal relationship with Christ.

A miracle, the church teaches, is beyond logic. Yet, the experience is personal, concrete, and unique. The experience is something that we enter into and allows us, for a brief moment, to “See- Something”.

Something outside of our normal experience.

“IT” happened. Yet, “IT” cannot have happened.

God has interrupted  our daily routine.

 

The mystical experience cannot be ignored.

An invitation has been made to you. And, requires your response.
What is left will continue to affect all your experiences and relationships.

On a hilltop in West Virginia, over looking the valley below and seeing the translucent colors of a Giant Rainbow, I was stunned by its

Simplicity, Silence, and Splendor!

There was no doubt, as an 8 year old boy, I was inspired.

Something in me changed on that walk down from that hilltop.

That powerful sense of Presence, Passion, and Promise

had invaded all the areas of my life, education, career, and family

right up to this present moment.

 Maybe you have a similar story? Many do.

 

Our minds tend to become fragmented over a lifetime and become unable to activate the whole nature of our being. The mystical experience “turns-on” our spiritual nature from time to time and we enjoy the opportunity to be liberated by a great sense of beauty, wonder, and awe for the mysterious. The Divine.

St. Therese, The Little Flower, asked,
“Do we not become responsive to Christ who is actualized within us?”
The great saint taught, “With God there always is more mystery.”

 There is wisdom in the thought that we are a “work in progress”, God is not finished with us.

As long as we have breath there will be more miracles and mysteries, more hilltops and valleys, and more and more Giant Rainbows.

Only The Good Things
deacon r.r. lackney, My 4^th Day Journal , October 2012
PS: The Rainbow that is in our imagination could be the
“ Spiritual Arch of Divine Hope as we open the Gates of heaven?