Caged

 For Catholics, the holy communion wafer is God.  We put God into the tabernacle after mass, until we need it again.  Unfortunately, for many of us, it is our way of "storing" God.  When you store some food, you are putting it into a safe place until you need it.  You have the control.  The food sits and does nothing until needed.  Catholics go and visit church and chapel because there is a tabernacle there where God is "stored."  We find God where we put the host when we last needed it.  I try not to get too caught up in this because God cannot be stored.  God is free to be everywhere, and is mystery, beyond concepts.  I still sit in the monastery chapel and visit with God in the tabernacle, but this is more of a comfort that helps me to focus on sitting in quiet and stillness, waiting upon the mystery that is within and around me.  I let go of a need for certainty, and fall into trust, sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly.