Jordan Stones Blog

"There are things to be considered . . . Where are you living? What are you doing?  What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your Truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader."     "There is a river flowing now very fast.  It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.  They will try to hold on to the shore.   They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly.  Know the river has its destination.       ".  Gather yourselves!  Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary .  All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.      "We are the ones we've been waiting for." -- attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder Hopi Nation

Here on the threshold of 2015 we are in transition.  We are letting go of (or trying to anyway) what is behind us and poising for what is ahead.  Still spinning from the glittering celebratory arrival of Christmas at the culmination of Advent...and we are left with... now what? Historically this is my least favorite time segment in the year. I think I now have a label for why. It is a reliable taste  of "Liminal Space" .  I stumbled upon this through a friend in the thick of advent.  It is a termed coined by spiritual formation writer Richard Rohr and commentaries on it have spun from many other spiritual writers. Richard Rohr defines Liminal Space as “a unique spiritual position where human beings hate to be but where the biblical God is always leading them. ” He says: It is when you have left the "tried and true" but have not yet been able to replace it with anything else. It is when you are finally out of the way. It is when you are in bet...