Today I hurt my toe–not a big deal–and I allowed someone to bandage it for me.
When I make an altar every day, I begin to see the mystical in the every day–today, in that moment of giving and receiving care.
It is not always easy to write about this.
“The irony of writing about [a mystical] experience in the modern era is such that, if I say to people, ‘This really happened,’ not unreasonably, they will be inclined to doubt me. They might suspect me of boasting, or assume that I have lost my mind. If I say, ‘I imagined it, I made it up, it’s fiction’–only then are they free to believe it.”–Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace
May I experience and believe.
