Welcome to The Wildroot Parables weekly discussions! This is where we can come together as a community and have real talk with one another: open, honest, gracious, and curious.
This is YOUR space to discuss with each other, not just engage with me! Because of this, SAFE SHARING is my highest priority. If you are not engaging safely and with grace with others, you will have to leave. Period.
Our question this week is: does “tiny” accurately describe the way you see yourself before God? If yes, how does that make you feel? If no, what word(s) would you choose?
Open, honest, gracious and curious. I love this table-setting of the space! I have never felt tiny. I AM tiny in the physical...and when I wonder at the expanse of creation it is with wonder that I realize I am both the all and a tiny expression of the all. But I haven ever felt tiny.
"Humbled" and "Awestruck" and "Grateful" would more accurately describe my feeling about how I see myself in the Presence of Creator-Source-All-G-d, Sophia, One beyond Names who Loves Us All SO MUCH in all places and spaces and dimensions forever!
This is always an interesting question. I have often heard it posed when contemplating space: "Considering how mind bogglingly HUGE the universe is, don't we feel small and insignificant?" But I always felt that was the wrong kind of humility--but I am not arguing that I feel BIG or significant, just that contemplating the Creator doesn't--for me--make me feel small.
It does make me feel loved, though. God went to all the care and detail to make this place, these circumstances, for *me*? It's probably like how your hummingbirds might feel--"She goes to all this trouble to put out food for *us*?" It makes me want to do my best with what I have--not to make myself bigger, but to make myself worthy of His infinite love. It's a small way of showing appreciation, of saying "thank you": that all the care and detail and attention isn't being taken for granted or put to waste.
Open, honest, gracious and curious. I love this table-setting of the space! I have never felt tiny. I AM tiny in the physical...and when I wonder at the expanse of creation it is with wonder that I realize I am both the all and a tiny expression of the all. But I haven ever felt tiny.
"Humbled" and "Awestruck" and "Grateful" would more accurately describe my feeling about how I see myself in the Presence of Creator-Source-All-G-d, Sophia, One beyond Names who Loves Us All SO MUCH in all places and spaces and dimensions forever!
This is always an interesting question. I have often heard it posed when contemplating space: "Considering how mind bogglingly HUGE the universe is, don't we feel small and insignificant?" But I always felt that was the wrong kind of humility--but I am not arguing that I feel BIG or significant, just that contemplating the Creator doesn't--for me--make me feel small.
It does make me feel loved, though. God went to all the care and detail to make this place, these circumstances, for *me*? It's probably like how your hummingbirds might feel--"She goes to all this trouble to put out food for *us*?" It makes me want to do my best with what I have--not to make myself bigger, but to make myself worthy of His infinite love. It's a small way of showing appreciation, of saying "thank you": that all the care and detail and attention isn't being taken for granted or put to waste.
Good thoughts and good posts, God bless!