Divine Chaos

"The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly."
—Caroline Myss, *Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness*

This quote leads off Rob Brezny's current weekly e-mail bulletin. It's cool. I haven't read this book, but I DID read Caroline Myss' book "Anatomy of the Spirit." I heard about it on the radio quite a few years ago, then later stumbled upon it in a bookstore. I got it, but couldn't really get into it, couldn't really "get" it, if you will, at the time. So it sat, along with many other books, on one of my shelves. Hopes, intentions, aspirations -- all bound up in words on paper, but not actual present time reality.

Then my neighbors asked me to house-sit, and I noticed they had a taped lecture of Myss speaking about the concepts in the book. I listened to it, and started getting into it. But it still took another year or so to actually get back to the book (which I read during a solo retreat I took two summers ago). I FINALLY really got into it. I just wasn't ready before. My spirit and my mind and my body weren't ready for it earlier. But I was ready to take it in at the right time. Oh yeah baby.

Oh, and back to that Divine Chaos thing? The electricity just went out for a moment. Then came back on. I know, I know, that's not chaos. But it is still weird. Also, I did a google image search for divine chaos, and stumbled upon this cool blog: http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/05/02/celebrity-tarot-divine-chaos/