Sign
of Jonah
What
is the meaning of the sign of Jonah for us?
Does it mean that we need to
release ourselves into the belly of
darkness before we can come to the essential truth in life?
Does it mean that
we need to give up control to be controlled by the Divine?
Does it mean that in
life people will throw us overboard and often by the grace of God we will be
‘spit’ into or get to the right shore?
It is not because we have done something
right but because God does ‘something right’ with our life.
As Richard Rohr
says, “ Faith is the leap into the water, now with the lived experience that
there is One who can and will catch you and lead you where you need to go”.
We
can never fully know what is happening with our life until after emerging from
the ‘belly of the whale’ our life. We come to the enlightenment after we have
gone through a period of aridity, darkness and confusion.
Then we realize what
God is doing with our life. Transformation comes after we endure lots of
suffering, pain and darkness.
Jesus let himself into the hands of his Father and allowed him to control his life.
Did Jesus evade or escape passion,
suffering and death because he was the son of God?
He had to be at the belly of
earth for three days before he emerged victorious by the action of God the Father.
Mary said at La Salette ‘come near my children, don’t be afraid’.
Don’t be
afraid that you are in the belly of darkness. Light and transformation are
inevitable by the action of the One can and will lead us to the right shore.
This is the sign of hope that Jonah offers to us.
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