I’ve waking up at four in the morning lately. There must have been some cosmic shift out there that I am reacting to. Anyway I had time to check in with my tumors early today. If you are new to the blog I may have to explain that I have tried to create some sort of positive relationship with my cancer, with my tumors. This has been going on for a while and I have blogged about it. Well OK, and this morning they seemed their usual selves, sort of quite and shy when I saw them.

I better back up my story to last evening. We had a wonderful dinner of chicken, brussels sprouts and yams, a nice winter meal. and during this time we started trying to figure out how our Thqnksgiving was going to work. Wiley and Hanna are going to be out of town. So, who can we invite so it wouldn’t just be the two of us? So, I was getting in this welcoming, holiday, party sort of mood before bed.

One more factor to add to this is that I have been avidly reading Richard Rohr’s blog everyday. If that doesn’t give you a clue I have to say that he is one of the most expansive Christian writers that one can run across these days. So, for days now he has been talking about how God is in everything and everything is God.

“Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things.
Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God.
Every creature is a word of God.
If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature—even a caterpillar—
I would never have to prepare a sermon.
So full of God is every creature. ”
— Meister Eckhart (13th-14th century German theologian and mystic)

That’s from a few days ago in Rohr’s blog just trying to give you a feel for the flavor of the thing.

So, mix together this expansive state where we search for God in everything with my mood to invite and celebrate with my visit to my tumors and what do you get? What I got was the question, “Am I supposed to find God there?”. Is God there in those little guys like he is in you and me and a caterpillar? This is I admit a strange thought given our mindset of fighting cancer but worth exploring nevertheless.

So I decided to try and invite them on an outing. I started thinking about a day at the beach maybe. That’s where the little tiny beachchairs comes in as they will need somewhere to loll around. Maybe little tiny drinks with parasols for the guys. I know, all this sounds totally crazy. Yes, yes I am thinking that myself but…

Looking for common ground, trying to find the positive, love you, Felipe.