Remember the excitement and the anxiety of the first day of school each year? Now consider those emotions in the context of moving to a large urban high school from a southern town where you have lived all your life. My two granddaughters had this experience this week---and it was not good. They are in different schools. They ate lunch alone. They were ignored by the other kids all caught up in their own excitement and anxiety.
And their mother and I have been in very frequent email contact-commiserating and praying for them--and for each other.I want the girls (and their mother) to know they are not alone---that God is with them as they walk through those new hallways and classes. That is what Kathleen Norris is talking about in "Quotidian Mysteries" when she talks about sacred roles. She says that by framing our everyday tasks as sacred we feel God's presence in walking through our "hallways." Our roles as mothers, spouses, friends, cooks, chauffers, laundress, cheerleader, counselors etc. etc. etc.become sacred when we are able to bring them into our relationship with God. Our role as a recovering woman becomes active and alive in an ogoing conversation and relationship with God.
What roles are you active in today? How can you begin to think of them as sacred?
In what ways is this gift of recovery sacred?
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