Parables Experience and Trust

The texts of the Roman Catholic Lectionary today bring the qualities of Experience and trust to mind. The theme that our experience of the love, compassion and forgiveness of our intimate relationship with the Divine is not to be forgotten or replaced with rules and religiosity. The difficult times when we “walked in the valley of the shadow of death” were times when we knew the Presence that was our guide. The psalmist declares that God delights in our way. That way is not best described by following this rule or that superstition but by a resonance of the indwelling Spirit with the Divine about which words are inadequate to write. This is the domain where poets, musicians and storytellers have a way to approach the documentation of experience. The parable does not give the seeker a “yes” or “no” because the deep understanding and Truth is not a subject for “dual” thinking