Well, the past few weeks have been anything but normal. Glad that I am in retreat for the time being. Dan the observer, are you there?

Yes, Dan in retreat, what’s up?

Today I had a meditation session related to Hildegard of Bingen.

You mean that mystic from the Middle Ages?

You got it. She was a pretty amazing human.

All right. How did it go?

Well, let me tell you about some of what she wrote, and I think it will be obvious.

Okay. Shoot.

The topics of light and love recur throughout her writings. She also writes of being good stewards of what is on earth. In fact, she took my breath away when she said that if humans misuse their place on earth that the divine justice of God is such that nature is allowed to “give a reminder”.

What’s that about?

Well, I can’t read her mind from here, but I expect this corona virus has given us all an opportunity to think about whether we are being good stewards of what we’ve been given on earth to use. And how we wish to be with each other-especially now that we are somewhat quarantined from each other.

It does make me think.

Yeah, me too. In fact I asked those meditating with me tonight to meditate on her words. We did, and my insight was that “Love is easy and easeful when I let it be. Also that there’s no time to wait to be loving, and finally, that God or the Universe is always ready to support us in what we do.

So that’s what you were up to

I hope others can have their own insights and share, too.