My soul has become a huge warehouse
where day after day the trucks unload their crates without any plan or discrimination,
to be piled helter-skelter in every available corner and cranny, until it is crammed full from top to bottom with the trite, the commonplace, the insignificant, the routine….I now see clearly that,
if there is any path at all on which I can approach You, it must lead through the middle of my ordinary daily life….I must learn to have both every day and Your Day
in the same exercise.
In devoting myself to the works of this world,
I must learn to give myself to You,
to possess You, the one and only thing, in everything …in You, all that has been scattered is re-united;
in Your Love all the diffusion of the day’s chores comes home again to the evening of Your unity.Karl Rahner (1904–1984)
“God of My Daily Routine”*
Reflect and Respond:
- What of Rahner’s prayer resonates with your current experience?
- Where are you needing to notice the Spirit’s work in your everyday, ordinary, and many times crowded life?
* Karl Rahner, “God of My Daily Routine” in Encounters with Silence (London, Sands & Co, 1960), 45-52.
