Revelationary and Loveful

Nothing revolutionary or revelationary. 

Just faithful, hopeful, and loveful. 

Listen to your life. 

This morning’s journal began with these words. “No agenda. No worries. Just write.” My first thought when I opened a blank, new page was that I didn’t have anything to write. So, I just started writing. Moments later, my page was full. I looked back on the page and wrote, “Nothing revolutionary or revelationary there. Just being faithful, hopeful, and loveful.”  

I am aware of the two odd words in that last paragraph, but they seemed fitting. I entered my time of writing with nothing particular to say. I was simply being faithful to the practice of showing up, hopeful something would happen, and full of love for writing for its own sake. I don’t need anything profound. I just love being here in the peaceful quiet and stillness of this new day. To me, that is enough. 

I don’t need a revolution; no major change is necessary. I don’t need a revelation; no divine truth is necessary. I just love the freedom of stepping up to a blank page and plunging in. 

The suffix, -ary, means belonging to, connected to, or pertaining to. The suffix, -ful, means full of, having the qualities of, or characterized by. I could have said revelatory, but I like revelationary. I could have said loving, but I like loveful. I could have stared at the blank page waiting for the right words, but I like writing. Worry free. No agenda. 

In his book, Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer wrote, “Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. This seems a healthy approach to living and a wise practice for entering each new day. Listening in faith, in hope, and in love. Allowing life to reveal its lessons. We need not long for or expect any personal revolutions or divine revelations, but my suspicion is that the more often we enter our days in trust, open to surprise, the more often we will find exactly what we’re not looking for and exactly what we didn’t know we needed.  

So, today, may we be faithful and open. May we be hopeful and agenda-free. May we be loveful and ready to listen to life. And who knows? If we do, there may be a revolution or revelation waiting for us. And that “may be” is more than enough for me.