The View Up Here

Recently, I'd say in the last two months, I've been the recipient of several outside references to Bruce Lee. I haven't gone seeking them, they've just shown up. Not the least of which happens to be part of my new license plate number: JKD (Jeet Kune Do, the martial art Lee created, which roughly translated means "way of the intercepting fist."). What has this to do with my life? His famous quote returns to me over and over again, like waves at the shore:   Be like water. What does this mean, and how am I to understand it in a Christian context?   Today's readings in the Lectionary point to it: saying yes to God's will in every moment, even when we don't understand it. Even when we cannot see the plan that includes every mote and moment of all creation in and outside of time, that includes every choice every person has ever or will ever make. I've just finished re-reading (since high school) C.S. Lewis's 2nd book of the Space Trilogy...

When God closes a door... or in this case, opens a door I wasn't expecting. I was invited to interview for and then got the position of Director of Faith Formation/Director of Religious Education/Catechetical Leader II (all synonymous and interchangeable in the Diocese) at a new parish about 30 minutes east of Rochester. So yes, I have moved (again...) and have started a position with more responsibility in a wholly different kind of parish. Today was Day 4 at the new gig, and it was as chaotic and wonderful as could be. For now, I'm staying with friends until I get a place that suits me (hopefully soon!), so most of my things are in storage. It is, as you can imagine, very disorienting. But, it's good change, and I've felt that it was the right thing to do from the beginning. So God opened this door and I was free to say no or to say yes. I said yes, but I do need more in the way of total surrender. Things at this parish are very different than they were in my las...