Episode 3: God Isn’t In a Hurry
Cynthia and Susan are joined by guest Jeralee Henderson Renshaw to discuss the idea that God isn’t impatient with us, we are impatient with ourselves. “Becoming” is a lifelong process—the fact that we’re never quite finished is simply part of the plan.
Notes & Quotes:
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr
“I am far from what I once was, and not yet what I am going to be.” —Jeralee Renshaw
“It’s good enough!” —Cynthia Winward
“It all fits.” —Richard Rohr
“Slow doesn’t have to be timid or lazy or less than smart. Slow isn’t a marker for fear and procrastination. Nor apathy and indecision. Slow isn’t dull and boring but contemplative and considered. Slow is the yin in a very yang world.” —Jeralee Renshaw
“In deep time, everybody matters and has his or her influence and is even somehow present and not just past. Deep time erases the barriers of the years erect between us. Once a person moves to deep time he or she is utterly one with the whole communion of saints and sinners, past and present.” —Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
“To pray is to learn how to trust deep time. To learn how to rest there and not be wrapped up in chronological time.” —Richard Rohr
“Things will happen you can’t begin to imagine now.” —Susan Hinckley
“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue, do not seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live among some distant day into the answers.” —Rainer Maria Rilke