Henry David Thoreau said, “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” How often do we judge whatever we are doing as wrong because it does not fit within the constraints of what is considered acceptable? How often do we question who we are being or doing because it is outside the norm or our path seems messed up? God spends no time judging the path we are on. When has holding ourselves in contempt for not fitting some sort of expected mold motivated us to change? I have never found it to work and believe me I tried. It is mind-blowing to approach wherever we are in the moment with reverence. Our hearts resonate with it easily but we do not look at our lives through our hearts, we look at it through our minds. Reverence is about honoring what is. Reverence is about finding something to love about whatever we are experiencing simply because it means we are alive. I did not get this for a long time and when all seems lost and I am in pain, reverence is the last thing on my mind. It is in those moments when I come back to my breath and awaken my heart hoping it will return me to a space of reverence even if for just a moment. Reverence is about holding space honoring that we are not what we think we are just because of what we are feeling or experiencing. Reverence is about taking God’s perspective on who we are and remembering we can never not be a creation of God. The story of creation in Genesis ends each creation with God’s acknowledgment of its goodness. God does provide qualifiers on goodness. Reverence is honoring the presence of God within ourselves because we have the humility to know there is nothing we can do to undo God.
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