Experiencing God In A Time of Crisis

Experiencing God

In A Time of Crisis

Sarah Bachelard

There are critical time in our lives, moments of profound loss, grief and fear in which our frameworks of sense seem to collapse and no longer enable us to convey meaning to overwhelming events or even to life itself,  In this work Sarah Bachelard suggests that the practice of meditation and contemplative living may help us endure and integrate such turning-point experiences, and bring our life and identity into a deeper wholeness.

Crisis, Bachelard indicates, may be seen as a call or opportunity to genuinely encounter the reality of God.  The journey is painful and involves letting to our our old ways to enter the unknown realm of poverty of spirit, but it also offers us the possibility of going back into the world free and courageous, with a new sense of being alive, and with radically deepened capacity to be with and to love other human beings.