Abide in me, and I in you.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15: 1-5
Can I pause and choose to turn toward this notion of ‘abiding’ – knowing that the God of my understanding / Divine holds me in ways that are sustaining and supportive? To choose to see and feel how the spirit of my understanding is moving through the moments of my life in rich and full ways – even in the changing of the leaves and the flutter of a wing. To pause and breath….to pause….breath…. and rest….rest into this knowing that I abide with something more. That I don’t have to do perhaps so much, know so much, or try quite so hard. That I can breath….that I can rest. That I can learn to trust – even a little bit more. To know that even when I feel that I have been surely forsaken that there is a chance….a chance that goodness is happening behind the scenes of my life, even though I am perhaps yet unaware. That the larger context of my soulful journey may be on track, even when I fall to my knees. Trusting that I do not have to do it all – I am sustained by something more. And, that when I can meet that something more grounded in the fullness of my human possibility, I am held in ways that sustain and support the moments of my life.
