When we need the Cocoon the Most
In times like these …. the tempest roars …what could we need more than a cocoon? Don't we long to be wrapped in warm transformative safety? It has to be re-woven with steely silken Holy Spirit threads…EVERY day. But as I try to do the work of putting myself in stillness long enough for the Spirit to thread…it surrounds me. Even when I don’t realize it. Even when I don’t recognize that Jesus is here in the dirt with me, fighting my battle , going ahead of me, frustrating my enemies, asking where are my accusers now?, holding all things scary and fearful, and incubating in the dark what his abundance has planned for me…. all while I wait wrapped in his Kingdom Cocoon . Night Prayers In times like these…when you hunger for the cocoon…the work looks like “Night Prayers”: “St. Teresa pointed out that the door of entry to the soul is prayer and reflection. Night prayers, more than any others, seem to carry us over the portal. A night prayer is one said against a bac