In the Coracle

Tides

January 23, 2004 // Tags: Uncategorized

Even as the tide comes in and goes out again, so we are drawn to retreat into silence and aloneness with God, then released to be involved in the going and activity again.
Most of the world would like to see something of Jesus, but how we fail to show Him through our life! How seldom when we speak is it what He has given us to be said!”

From Celtic Daily Prayer’s commentary for today.

Lord, help me to show you through our life, by my actions, and by every word that comes out of my head. Help me to see your kingdom at work in my family, my friends, my neighbors, the “strangers” that I will cross paths with today. Lord, undo me, so that you can rebuild me as your own.

I liked the image of our lives and activities as like the tides - regularly and gently, sometimes more fiercely than other times, sometimes resulting in storms and changing of landscapes, we are drawn into retreat and then pushed forth into activity. Rhythmic, balanced-but-not-equal times. Natural, biotic. Responding to the pull of a heavenly body on our internal systems. A natural dance.

Lord help me to dance, following your leading, not my own. remind me that I am your partner.

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Welcome! I'm Pat Loughery, and I'll be your host here. Feel free comment on what you see here. I am a lay missionary to North Bend on the east side of Seattle, a husband, dad to 2 kids, a software test manager for Equiom, Inc.,, a software consulting company. I'm also a failed and (quite possibly future) church planter and a Doctor of Ministry student with Bakke Graduate University, and usually on this blog we discuss Christian spirituality (especially of the Celtic, post-Evangelical, post-Charismatic and neo-monastic flavors), photography, motorcycles, and other oddball things.

About the Coracle

I'm trying to live a deep and relational Christian life. As I study Christian spirituality, I find the Celtic stream helpful, challenging and liveable. One of the images from early Celtic Christianity is their sea transport - the coracle.

The ancient Celts traveled in coracles - handmade, wooden framed and hide-covered boats, to journey where the trinitarian God led them. Though the transportation was simple, the journey was profound. This image is an illustration of the way I experience God's guidance - an invitation to travel with him on his paths, not mine; at his pace, not mine.

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Tides