Tabernacle

 For us Catholics we like our tabernacles.  God can be encountered on our own terms, quiet and tranquil.  In our chaotic world, God is manageable in our unmanageable life.  It is why many of us prefer quiet meditation, controlled by some method we use to encounter our Higher Power or the Divine.  We don’t like unmanageable people or situations.  We want control.  Tranquillity is our power to control our surroundings.  But if we ever learn to pay attention, we might notice that God prefers, for us fearful ones, to come in the chaos of our life.  Too often we pray that God changes the chaos, the other person or situation.  We do not pray that God changes us.  For recovering people,  go to some newcomer meetings or ones in the seedier parts of town.