Divine Discontentment: Part II
20 11 2007
Back in April I posted my thoughts in the post, “Divine Discontentment”. It was expression and frustration at this discontentment that causes me to be restless inside.
Now it’s almost seven months later. This restlessness, this Divine discontentment is more profound in my life. Tying this in with my recent post on creativity and spirituality this makes the discontentment more so.
Today, for the first time ever, I’m posting away from home (I’m at work). So far, the IT guys haven’t listed blogging as “forbidden” but I’m not going to push my luck (or online access).
I went online and Googled “divine discontentment” and “divine restlessness” and for the most part was directed to rather “churchy” sites. It appears that for the most part, brand x-tianity focuses on what’s wrong with the restless.
(Pause: I had to stop writing since I was at work. Now I’m continuing at home.)
As I said before, my online results were more geared to the “you ought to” answer to divine discontenment/restlessness. I’m not in the mood to hear what I need to do, “try harder in my x-tian walk”, or any other preaching. It appears that x-tians are very uncomfortable with the unknown in their spiritual lives, rather settling for the predictable and neatly packaged.
I believe, as I said in April, God’s trying to tell me something. She’s trying to woo me out of my façades and lead me into the path of true righteousness. As a creative individual, restlessness is a part and parcel of who I am.
Maybe it’s my search for meaning in my life, going beyond the mundane.
Still restless, my family. ‘Til next time, peace and Happy Thanksgiving!
Ewww, I can’t even look at those “churchy” “should” sites anymore. Don’t bloody tell me what to do - who the hell are you?
*Removes chip from shoulder*
I think you are asking questions that are really, really good, although really, really perplexing. Seems to me that God is doing an awful lot of moving people’s internal furniture around. The future feels very pregnant to me. I think there is a lot of freedom coming our way, if we can only hang out in the not knowing, as freaky as it is./
Good luck!
Happy Thanksgiving!
((( D.C. )))) (oh, look! DC could stand for Divine Contentment as well! ;-)…
Hope you are yours had an awesome Thanksgiving and way to Blog from work! (I do it all the time, to fill in slow times. Fortunately, no IT guys looking over my shoulder or big Corporate Watch Dogs monitoring us!)
Based on my own experience with Divine Discontentment, I know that I won’t find any answers “Out There”. Not any personalize info, anyway, other than some ideas for managing it.
You’ve made a really interesting comment: “She’s trying to woo me out of my façades and lead me into the path of true righteousness.”
From my ‘church” days, I’m used to defining righteousness as “in right standing with God”. Unfortunately, those days tried to tell me that I had alot of performing to do in order to do that.
Wonder if She was trying to woo you out of your limiting beliefs about what righteousness really is? Wonder if she’s trying to get through the facade of Legalism, blame, shame, guilt and man-created “law” in order to tell you: “Yo! Home Boy! We ARE good!” Wonder if you were ON the path already, and IN rightstanding with Her ALL the time?
How does that make you feel?
Wonder if the call isn’t to be in right standing with Her so much - as to be in total rightstanding with yourself and the idea: You’re perfect just the way you are and there’s not need to prove anything or do anything?
Wonder if the whole point of this Divine Discontentment is to get us to drop our stories, and just LIVE a life a love, joy, peace and creativity?
Thanx gang for the comments!
Discombobula, God is such a pisser! She’ll rock our world, ring our chimes, rain on our parade, or slip in a club music CD into our quiet church service to get our attention! But I love Her so!
Namaste Grace! God is trying to get our attention to see beyond the “religious” existence we settle for. We’re too much into a quiet, predictable routine. Adventure in our spiritual is blasphemous! We don’t see the higher, deeper, vast life God offers us as taught by Jesus.
Pastor, hope your Thanksgiving was blessed. We need some divine “luck”! The challenge is to pay attention with the eyes and ears of our hearts, which we need Her help with. There’s so much distraction inside and outside ourselves that try to hinder our paying attention.
Stay tuned! Peace!
DC, I love her so too
I’m feeling completely divinely discontented at the moment. But it’s a matter of riding it, of not giving into the emotions (or at least trying to minimise giving into the emotions - I have varying amounts of success with that). I guess ultimately it’s knowing that God is up to something … and whenever s/he has been up to something in the past, it’s boded well for my spacious places in the future 
I’m glad to see another on this road trip who feels as I have. This discontentment not only draw us closer to the Divine, but also maintains our humanity as well. We just don’t “drift” through life, but we become more connected to it.
I believe we also see past the surface of life and peer into what is real. We can step back and see the world from a whole new perspective. We become mystics in the greater scheme of things.
Then we will transcend to the next level where God wants us to be. More woven into Her fabric and more connected to others through Her.
Stay discontented! Peace!