As I sit in my office awaiting a client, my attention is drawn to this picture on the wall before me. It was given to me as part of a >thank you’ gift at the conclusion of a weekend retreat. The givers of this gift will never know the depth of meaning this picture has for me.
It is a powerful reminder of a profound insight I received many years ago when I was studying Scripture. In the Book of Kings we read that AGod pitched God=s tent among us@ (1Kings 8) and as our professor stated, “and never took it up again”. The word used for God in this passage is “Shekina”- a feminine word for God. - the ONE who gives life to and dwells within each one of us. We carry Sacred Presence within us whether we know it or not. But what a gift it is when we are cognizant of this reality as we make our way along life`s path with its various twists and turns.
This Indwelling Presence of the Divine has become the heart and centre of my spiritual life, and the One to whom I turn when my ego suggests less loving reactions to the person(s) or situations before me. Shekina, thank you for your abiding Presence.
Doreen Kraemer CSJ