A Place to Start...

I believe that my life in recent years has been one of liminality. You know, not quite to the next phase of a journey or in the hallway but not into the next room that you want or need to be in. This has been my life for the better part of the last 3 years, knowing that I can't quite get to the room that I must be in, from the room I just came from. Struggle, anger, tears and loss were the catapult that had to thrust me from the "threshold" into the place I am now in. It was precisely those things that I couldn't do anything about that ultimatley did something to me. Liminal space can best be defined as "between" or even on the "cusp" of something new.
So it made sense to me when it came time to start thinking about posting my own blog that I would aptly name and claim it in this fashion. I hope that this space can be one that keeps us in the "threshold" of Christ together, after all isn't that where true transformation takes place? (see Matthew 4:2).
It has been said that the great saints and mystics of the church attempted to live their whole lives in this "teachable" space (see Matthew 7:13). I trust that we can begin to live our lives in this place that feels almost counterintuitive, only then can we begin to sense the intuition that is the Holy Spirit.

[Parts of this blog contain ideas that sprang forth from Adam's Return, by Richard Rohr]