As many of you already know (if you’ve read “Mirari” or many of these Musings) I start my day, and do almost all of my writing, in a cabin in the woods behind my yard. I like being out for sunrise and am familiar with life on my plot of ground.
As I head out each day, I sprinkle feed for the bunnies, the earliest risers. They tend to stay on the yard side of the woods. Then at 7:30, I feed the squirrels and birds. I’m very keen about being timely as I’m the one who’s gotten my yard animals used to this rhythm. Consequently, when I miss my allotted time, as I did this morning, I know I’m more deeply immersed in “time outside of time,” than usual. My last Musing spoke of receptivity, and I now add a bit about the non-ordinary time that you and I can also be receptive “to.” Time itself is a major topic in the books of Mary.
When ACOL was announced to me back in 1998, I heard that I would have something to do with the end of ordinal time. Ordinal time is often translated as “ordinary” time, and I like that, and the idea that we are bringing in non-ordinary, or extraordinary time. But “ordinal” more properly means “ordered” time. Quite apart from religious distinctions, I see this as being freed from our mutual bondage to time’s demands.
The first of five Installments (While Mari is on sabbatical)
Nice to think of you on Sabbatical Resting in God. Just finishing the letters. The memory of being born anew as though I were there with Christ, with Mary, with Mari. And now you attend the new babe being born to the new. Resting into God. Receptive in Receptivity