Small Part - Big Mystery

A Cherokee or Ojibwa chief is said to have asked his young braves,

"Why do you spend your time in brooding?

Don't you know you are being driven by great winds across the sky?"

Don't you know you're part of a much bigger pattern?

But you're not in control of it,

any more than you would be of great winds.

You and I are a small part of a much bigger mystery.

(from today's R. Rohr meditation)

To submit to being taught
means accepting the wonder and largeness of truth
(the bubble of Love that holds us all) 
and our own smallness in relationship to it.
Eventually we must learn to hold the paradox of our finite self
held within the eternal and infinite (bubble of ) Love.
(past Rohr meditation)