Written by Deb Gregory on April 24, 2018 “Prayer is a wonderful and frustrating mystery. A liminal time, this… when the veil between life and death grows thin, when the rhythm of day drawing breath. Faith Development (1982). September 2020 Freedom And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. Help us to find effectiveness in our voices, spaces, places, and organizations during our journey between our endings and our new beginnings. It’s where we sit in God’s presence to hold anxious feelings, resist impulsiveness, live with “not knowing,” and think the best of other people. I’m so glad to hear you’ve navigated through it in one sense of your live, though you’re unfortunately back in it again. And recovery of sight to the blind, I had been thinking of 2020 in terms of liminal spaces when the headlines thrust the disintegrating old and the emerging new into the forefront. Suffering Thanksgiving We grieve the racial and social unrest in our nation, the lawlessness, police violence, oppression, systematic racism and discrimination, gender oppression and violence, domestic terrorism, divisiveness, shadow conspiracies, classism, pathology, homophobia, and the plurality and polarization of thought and action. Juggling Epihpany 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” Awareness Examen “The word ‘liminal’ comes from the Latin root, limen, which means ‘threshold.’ The liminal space is the ‘crossing over’ space – a space where you have left something behind, yet you are not yet fully in something else. There in a woodland forest or on a mountain peak by the babbling water The two will kiss and meet. 16, President’s Blog 7 – Pain and Joy as Healing Waters. God erodes them from many sides, hoping they will fall. – Luke 4:1–2  The New King James Version. Saints & Mystics Many named: Samhain, All Souls, Dia de los Muertos. We keep praying that our illusions will fall away. Liminal Space Saturday, May 2, 2020 Summary: Sunday, April 26 — Friday, May 1, 2020 Liminal space is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. Examples in the Bible include the dream of Jacob (Genesis 28:12–19) where he encounters God between heaven and earth and the instance when Isaiah meets the Lord in … It is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. Pain Lament 8000 Utopia Parkway We seek an antidote to our current chaos and as we reflect on our changing realities during this liminal season – we plead for your mercy, Oh God. Jim and Lisa Coe, thank you for believing in … Surrender - Jackal. Liminal Space is not intended as a blog in the usual sense. Laying On Of Hands October 2017 We grieve the recent losses of family members and other loved ones in our community. Now that we are in liminal space we can begin to imagine this new world. Meditation Community The word “liminal” is derived from the Latin word “limens,” which means threshold. It’s a time when seeds are germinating in the darkness of the earth before they burst into bloom. Atonement And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. January 2017 Liminal Space Between Two Worlds Sunday, April 26, 2020 Liminal space is an inner state and sometimes an outer situation where we can begin to think and act in new ways. Lectio Divina August 2020 Discernment It is an in-between time that bridges what was, to what will be. November 2017 the Lord has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, A liminal space can be a quiet space where we can just be, where we can pause, breathe and live in the moment. We usually… Continue Reading Between Two Worlds We work our way through liminal space with a discerning mindset, not a decision making mindset. Jesus will bring us to liminal spaces. Between the shore and ocean Between the sky and sea There is a fluid meeting of time and eternity. Worship Music, Today I facilitated a time of meditation and guided prayer for the Vanderbilt Divinity School community during their online worship. When you find yourself in a liminal space, you are quite literally standing on the threshold between one room and another, one stage of your life and another, one reality and another. Holy Spirit Poetry The Liminal Space of PRAYER – Raynna Myers. Creation Centering Prayer Welcome to my little corner of the Universe. We grieve for humanity and nature as we simultaneously grapple with our previous life, conscious death, and pending resilient spiritual new appearance. A space that begins with loss – so teach us not to resist loss or liminality but to sit with the ambiguity and disorientation. But it’s a time of transition, a time of grieving the past so that there is space for a new and different future. We grieve the estimated 18 million people and families who are impacted by unemployment in the United States of America. Children Liminal existence can be located in a separated sacred space, which occupies a sacred time. Yet the liminal space provides the holding environment for gestation.