My hope and prayer for this blog…Ancient Paths and Sacred Passages has been to bring our awareness back around to what G-d is saying concerning the path we are on and the passages that our lives always go through. So many times when we are going through challenging seasons we need someone to help us reframe our perspective. We need to know that someone else has gone through the Dark Night of the Soul and has transcended the heartache and actually came out the better for it.
Thus Ancient Paths, taken from Jeremiah 6:16 NIV This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. I went to this passage through so many crossroads in my life and asked for the ancient paths, I asked that the good way would be illuminated to me, and I stepped out in faith and followed the peace in my heart…I have found rest for my soul more times than I can count.
Sacred Passages came to me when I was in the midst of the most challenging moments in my journey…those heart wrenching moments we all face…in the silence of my prayer time between the waves of tears and brokenness, I became aware of a statement: “Tess, this is a sacred passage, treat it as such.” The statement reframed what was going on…it made me step back to find that place of contemplation that had eluded my raw emotions.
The Contemplatives cultivated the capacity to step back from the frenetic raw emotions of crisis and in the stepping back, the dialing down…they found Wisdom from G-d. In that sacred silence I too found Wisdom waiting for me. It is my hope that in the blogs that are entered here, the testimonies I share, with transparency and humility you too will reframe your crisis, (which crisis only means “turning point”) that you will be enabled to turn to the Lord. Find as I have, that His Wisdom awaits our asking…Beloved, you are never alone…
