Searching for the Sacred: Sixty Meditations on Faith, Hope, and Love

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Searching for the Sacred: Sixty Meditations on Faith, Hope, and Love” is a book of stories and parables designed to inspire hope, insight, courage, and resilience. Each day, readers can spend 30 minutes engaging with one of the 60 meditations and related scriptures, pondering the questions that tie the daily thoughts together. This practice offers a meaningful opportunity for reflection. Beyond personal use, “Searching for the Sacred” is suitable for group discussions in classes or small gatherings.??????????????????????????????????????????????????

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Searching for the Sacred meditations

Cameron Trimble

Cameron Trimble is a serial entrepreneur committed to the triple bottom line – a concern for people, profit and the planet. Driven by an adventurous spirit, she runs businesses and NGO organizations, both secular and faith-based. She serves as a consultant, a frequent speaker on national speaking circuits, is a pilot, pastor and an author.

Cameron is the CEO of Convergence, a non-profit made up of subsidiary companies and organizations. She is the Co-Founder of Skycross Media, a for-profit venture that provides online solutions for organizations doing good in the world. She is also a partner in Trimble Properties, a real estate company dedicated to housing vulnerable people in the Atlanta area.

Cameron is focused on the empowerment of women, people of color and LGBTQ people in leadership. Her coaching clients are primarily executive leaders going through dynamic culture transformations. Diversity, she believes, is the source of lasting innovation and the driver of fair profit.

We Are All One

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1:8)

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Years ago, I went hiking through the rainforests of Costa Rica. I had never before experienced the magnificent energy of a rainforest. I remember my sense of wonder, walking under a fern frond and looking up to see that fern was nearly twice as tall as me. I brushed plants that recoiled at my touch and then opened again once I passed. I met a lizard braced on a towering tree who looked me straight in the eyes as if to have a conversation with me. Like Alice in Wonderland, I was in awe.

Likely because of that sense of awe, I had my first formative experience of Oneness. In my wonder, something in me shifted just enough for me to grasp an overwhelming sense of interdependence with everything around me. I was me, but I was also the giant fern, grasping plants, towering tree, and talkative lizard. They were also me. I was solid in form, but I also could permeate everything around me, just as everything around me could permeate me.

It’s strange to “language” the experience. Mystics talk about “non-dual actualization.” The best I can say is that in that moment, and in many since, I have understood at a deep, expansive level that we are all One. We are all stardust, energy flows, Love’s greatest expressions. This capacity for non-dual expansion of consciousness is not necessarily unique. It is something that happens to and for many of us, sometimes spontaneously and often through practice. Meditation and prayer have become profound teachers for me for this reason. They are the pathways by which I remember who I am.

As I think about the world we are creating together, I have a growing sense of urgency that our only sustainable future begins with our willingness to ground ourselves (literally) in our awareness of interdependence (Oneness), and then to create our businesses, institutions, politics, and rituals from that fertile soil. Nothing else will hold together the global future that awaits us….

Perhaps this sounds crazy to you. If you are willing to risk it, here is my invitation: Get up earlier in the morning than usual. In a quiet space, perhaps after lighting a candle and taking a few deep breaths, repeat this prayer as a mantra, a guide to ease you into openness. When you are there, let it go, and simply . . . be.

Be still and know that I am God.

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know.

Be still.

Be.

I am praying for you and inspired by who you are becoming. Indeed, the whole future of the world depends on it.

Reflection Questions: We must move beyond the illusion of separation in order to fully actualize a more holistic vision of our world. How might you explore opening yourself to your interdependence with all of creation? Meditation can be challenging for a lot of us. What gets in your way?

An Unexpected Emergency in Flight

Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9)

As I was taking off from Peachtree-Dekalb Airport (KPDK) in Atlanta, another pilot who had been cleared to land lowered his landing gear on his dissent as he had hundreds of times before. But this time, as his landing gear descended, it began making a horrible shaking noise. This is never good. He called the tower and reported that he might have an emergency on his hands. All of us in flight immediately tuned in.

The controller called back to the pilot and recommended he do a flyby so that the controllers in the tower, using binoculars, could visually confirm that the landing gear was down. They would not be able to confirm that the landing gear was locked in place, which left the risk open that the gear could collapse once the plane touched the runway. But it’s what they could do in the moment. The pilot flew low straight down runway 3L, and the controllers called back, confirming that they could indeed see all three wheels.

They cleared the pilot to circle the airport. The air traffic controller called him, saying, “Our longest runway is yours. When you are ready, and only when you are ready, you are cleared to make your turn and land. We are prepared for you.”

He made a wide circle so that he had time to get himself mentally prepared for potential emergency procedures. Ground services and the fire department got in position to meet the plane quickly if his landing gear collapsed. Everything was in place. The rest of us listened (and prayed). We only made radio calls as required by regulation. We wanted to make sure that frequency was open for that pilot to use in any way he needed. The waiting was interminable.

Finally, the pilot entered his final approach. Responding to the air traffic controller, he confirmed there was one soul on board and forty gallons of remaining fuel, which the fire department would need to know to gauge the intensity of the potential emergency.

In this situation, pilots are trained to land the airplane at the lowest speed possible and hold the airplane’s weight off the disabled wheel for as long as possible. At some point, gravity takes over, and there’s nothing left to be done.

The pilot lined up for runway 3R. He lowered his airspeed to just above stall speed, and then he gently, as if like a feather, placed that airplane onto the runway. The landing gear screeched and shimmied and left black rubber tire marks down the runway. But it remained intact, and he was safe. The controller came back on the radio with his call sign confirming that the plane was clear of the runway. Then he said to the pilot, “Really great job, sir.” It was a simple salute that held a universe of relief and respect from all of us.

Things go wrong in life despite our every attempt to make it safe and predictable. We can’t anticipate the curveballs that life throws our way even as we try to prepare to handle them in the safest way possible. Life is risky. The wondrous gift is that as we each experience our moments of challenge, we are never alone.

Compassion is the comforting presence we grant one another in the moments of our deep challenges. It is how we embody the Divine. In that space of loving witness, we meet God in each other and are moved to care for one another’s plight.

I often sign my emails and notes with the words, “We are in this together.” Yesterday, I was reminded by an ATC controller and a lucky pilot just how essential that truth is.

Reflection Questions: What curveballs have come your way that felt overwhelming but worked out in the end? What did you learn about yourself? Asking for help can be hard. Whose help do you need in your life and what stops you from asking? What if you reached out to them today?

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chalice Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 23, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 082723189X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0827231894
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches