Cutting Strawberries (# 1765)

1.The old man was standing at the kitchen counter cutting up strawberries into a bowl. He wondered, if the lost son was looking from some place, would he think nothing had changed. But there were huge changes inside, a huge empty place.

Later, after some consideration, the old man realized that lunch time had been a place of meeting and sharing space. There was often conversation about what had been done and what was read the previous morning . There may have been a time when strawberries were being cut at the counter to free up space elsewhere. This arising of pain had a trigger.

2.In “Talks of Instruction” Meister Eckhart wrote that God suffers with man:

“However great the suffering may be, if it comes through God, then God suffers first from it. Indeed by the truth that is God, there never was so tiny a pang of sorrow that befell a man, not the least little discomfort or inconvenience, but if he placed it on God, then it would pain God incomparably more that that man, and incommode God more than the man himself”

“But if God endures this for the sake of such benefit as He intends for you thereby, and if you will endure that which God endures and which comes to you through Him, then it inevitably becomes godlike, so that shame is like honor, bitterness like sweetness and the blackest darkness like the brightest light. It takes all its savor from God and becomes godlike: for whatever comes to such a man conforms to God, because he seeks nothing else and has no taste for anything else. Accordingly he gets hold of God in all bitterness just as in the greatest sweetness.”

From Walshe, Talks of Instruction, pp27-8. Quoted from Richard Woods, Meister Eckhart, Master of Mysteries p.162.

Woods says that by “welcoming God’s presence, we transcend pain and bitterness”. How APAPB!!!

3.A few posts ago I speculated about space and raindrops. I was advised to look at time. Yes, the raindrops were moving through space in time.

What we think of as space is mostly air with molecules suspended in space. Do raindrops react with the molecules as they push past on their way to the ground?

4.BrM – Be still!!!