Reflections - Archive 2008/09The theme for this year's reflection will be Moments of Recognition. Within most of us there is a desire, a hunger for meaning, for a deeper spirituality, for more of God. Every so often on our earthly journey, we are gifted with moments of awareness, of recognition where the veil is lifted ever so slightly and we have that ‘aha’ experience that transforms us a little bit more. Sometimes they sneak up on us and catch us unawares. At other times we may be going through a wilderness place, but we emerge at last with the gift. Perhaps the greatest treasures are mined from those dark places where we feel we have made a mess of everything or have suffered acute loss. We would not wish such anguish on anyone, least of all ourselves, but when the worst of the nightmare has passed we can recognize, in retrospect, that we have been drawn more deeply into the heart of God. This year I would like to look with you at some of these moments of recognition, eternity moments, as they occurred in the life of one person in the hope that his experience might gift us with a heightened awareness of what is happening to us as we journey. I have called these reflections ‘Moments of Recognition,’ but I could equally well have called them ‘A Love Story’ because that is really what they are all about.