{"id":22091,"date":"2023-01-31T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22091"},"modified":"2023-01-31T07:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:38:39","slug":"22091","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22091","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Camp - Getting Started (Lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8e1Yc5fWxe0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Making Room for Something New\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In a 2004 conference with Richard Rohr, author and retreat leader Paula D\u2019Arcy spoke of her childhood kitchen table as a symbol of the security of her first half of life:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a dream [at a retreat] \u2026 and in that dream, I was back in the home in which I was raised, and my siblings and my parents and I were all sitting around the kitchen table, which was the hub of our home. And then in the dream, <strong>suddenly the table was just gone. It had vanished\u2026. When the table was removed, it made room for truth. Now there is space for something entirely new to happen<\/strong>\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that table, the first part of my journey happened. At that table, we sat, and my sisters and I were quizzed on the Baltimore Catechism, and we learned the laws, and we learned the rules. It\u2019s very interesting to think how at that table, I first heard the question, \u201cWho is God?\u201d and \u201cWhy were we created?\u201d And we parroted back to my parents the lesson book, the things that we were learning. At that table, we passed back and forth to my parents our report cards and sat hoping that they were good enough. At that table, we learned the values that had given my parents\u2019 life shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>D\u2019Arcy lost her husband and young daughter in a car accident when she was pregnant with their second child. She describes what it meant to sit at that same table with the reality of immense loss, and then to discover in her dream that the table is eventually taken away:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because that table once held all the answers, it held all the security. It was the frame, and it was the root of my life.\u2026 That table was so many things in that life; and then it became a table where I went in my grief and asked a lot of the questions about the meaning of life, and the extent of the darkness, and how a person got through that amount of pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the dream at that retreat was significant to me, when I dreamt that the table was now removed. It had served its purpose. It had held me while I went through the first half of my journey. <strong>It had provided all of the things that were meant to be provided, and now the table was removed, because the journey was to go a different way. The journey was now within. <\/strong>Now, all the doors and all the answers and all the mystery were going to be found not at that table, but \u2026 looking through eyes that were very different, and a life that was suddenly broken open in a different way. <strong>I learned the roots of love at that table, but when the table was removed\u00a0.\u2026 My litany at that table would have been, \u201cDo I have what it takes to really love, to do the second half of the journey?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-9-500x315.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22093\" width=\"768\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-9-500x315.png 500w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-9-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-9-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-9-1536x968.png 1536w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-9.png 1872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Room for Something New\u00a0 In a 2004 conference with Richard Rohr, author and retreat leader Paula D\u2019Arcy spoke of her childhood kitchen table as a symbol of the security of her first half of life: I had a dream [at a retreat] \u2026 and in that dream, I was back in the home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22098,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions\/22098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}