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Every Day, Sacred

Embracing the mystery of the divine

Judith Heaney
3 min readMar 8, 2020

To step forth into the unknown is to embrace the mystery of this life we have been gifted. I don’t know about you, but more often than not, I have more questions than answers, and that can feel disconcerting and cause you to lose the balance you crave from this life.

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But it is in the mystery where we discover true meaning, and, therefore, find the balance we seek. It is where we find beauty and wonder. It is where we find our true selves.

Mystery surrounds us, and with it, glimpses of the divine and a touch of the sacred. But if we are too focused on wanting answers, we miss the beauty of it all. The mystery of the universe, of time and space, of our lives and our very existence — who we are and what we were created to do in this world. These provide us the adventure for which our soul yearns and for which we were divinely designed.

Too often I push against those mysteries, demanding instead for the easy way. I talk often about figuring things out, but those tend to be things involving others, especially what my family needs from me and from the day that stretches before us.

Today, I want to embrace those mysteries. I want to step into them and breathe deeply the unknown and let the sacred nudge me into being. Because I think for so long I have been…

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