Become like children and reclaim our connection with wisdom

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In a recent webinar for FutureChurch, Sr. Sandra Schneiders described religious life as a “highly specific way to structure, organize and express one’s relationship with Ultimate Reality,” a life that is a “total, irrevocable, self-donation to God,” … a “single-minded search for God.”

We know from Scripture that the God we seek is the God longing to be found, and that we have an innate capacity for genuine and direct experience of God, often called mystical. For some who have experienced spiritual and sexual abuse, whether religious or lay, the light of this capacity for deep connection to wisdom dwelling within seems an impossible dream. For them, mystical experiences are only for special people, not us ordinary or wounded ones. However, theologian Karl Rahner refutes this in a collection of lectures in Theological Investigations, 1961-92. He said it is time to move mysticism from the margins to the heart of being Christian. Thus, any and all wounded Christians are included.