Every great move of God begins with a fiat, a “yes” to the presence and action of God in our lives. One way of understanding the difference between sin and sanctity is the simple difference between “no” and “yes” to God in the depth of the heart. Mary’s motherhood, and the great love story that blossomed from it, came about because   Mary’s answer to God is always yes – or to say it in classical terms, she was sinless.
Because we too are sustained by the very Breath of God, be can reasonably expect that Mary’s deep, surrendered yes flows in our own veins as well. If “yes” to God often seems difficult, it is not because there is no part of us geared to “yes” – our lives are built on God’s yes whether we recognize it or not; YES is our deepest principle. However, ego, culture, our own expectations and those of others can bury our fundamental fiat under a heavy load of “no.” Contemplative practice, then, is a way of releasing all the clutter that lacks the courage, the commitment, the surrender, the love to say “yes”. As we practice, we adapt Mary’s stance more and more, learning to say yes just for a moment. As we say yes to one moment, then the next, then the next, we rediscover the yes that is the core of our soul and become more and more a portal for Divine Love to manifest in the world.
Contact us at 314-578-0062 or [email protected]!