The marrow in the skeleton bones of creation , the cosmos, is The Cosmic Christ.
The Skeleton holds us fast, while the marrow of, The Cosmic Christ, fills us up.
Come, Holy Spirit, come, and strengthen the weakened mind of this, faithless one. (hij)
This, mystifying reality, is beginning to take hold. When the oriental horizon is slowly being illuminated on, September 29 2025, I will be entering a moment, I have never dared to imagine, the possibility of Joe entering that stratosphere of being, get this, 86 !!!! May, The The Gracious Creative Spirit, Who has guided my journey to this mysterious ,NOW moment preserve, protect me as, " Expectations, are planned resentments." My, false self, is still very much, alive !!!! My expectation that it would die because, of the aging process was, laboring under, a misconception !!!. My reality is with the passing years it seems to have caught up more energy.
Please put in a good word for me, as you are celebrating your connectedness with your Higher Power. An evolving relationship with, The Prodigal Mother/Father, has been a blessing for me , and I wish the same for all you who read this effort. A person does not, nor cannot exist, cannot evolve, in, isolation. There is, in these mysterious, fruit-full now moments, a tremendous evolving, developing emphasis on humanities' relationship with, The Cosmic Christ. You are reading, and hearing the mention of The Cosmic Christ. Here is a thumbnail nail sketch of how I have been lead to understand His Reality today.
" The Cosmic Christ is a theological and mystical interpretation of Jesus Christ that extends beyond the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth. It views Christ not merely as a personal savior or religious teacher, but as a universal, Divine Presence, that permeates all of creation. This understanding draws from Christian Scriptures, early Christian mysticism, and contemporary theological developments , especially within the realms of process theology, panentheism, and eco-theology." All things one in Christ, especially within the Body of The Cosmic Christ. " In Christ were created all things in heaven and on earth : everything visible and invisible...... Before anything was created, CHRIST EXISTED, and Christ holds all things in unity ". (Col 1,15-17) Efforts at disunity war against The Reality of The Cosmic Christ,
We are not islands, then, living a disconnected existence. Back in those days that are now, lost in the mist of time, it took me some time to plunge the depths of this reality, " no women/man is an island". " Alone, we can do nothing"(Paul) Ireland, was and is, an island, and was surrounded by many, many islands. In school, their names and locations, had to be memorized. Many of these were inhabited, and flourishing. So then, can we believe, "One can flourish as an island," ?That belief can, and will lead to dysfunctional behavior. Are we, not now living an existence that is, death dealing , rather than, as The Gracious Creator intended, be life giving. We are called, destined from eternity to be co-creators of new life, not co-destructors of that same fruit bearing, life!!
Back then, and in some vapid teachings, and preachings of today, our god was presented, communicated to be of the transcendent ,variety, " God was in heaven and all was right with the world". The evolution of scriptural scholarship understanding, and dynamic fruit bearing revolution of The Second Vatican Council, lead to the revelation that Our Infinite Creator is in reality, Emmanuel. Emmanuel brings with it the transforming reality, that, THE DIVINE GOD, Is,WITH US, what is more awe-full, The Creative Presence is ever and always within us. What is even more boggling to the mind is the Mercy-full, The All powerful cannot leave us. WE are bound together in a covenant of love. Now we celebrate That Loving Transforming Presence " in Whom ,we live, and move, and have our being."There is no moment that we are in presence of Creative, Transforming Prodigal Lover. " "Christ is present, in all things that, are" Gregory of Nazianus. Add " Christ holds things in, unity." That statement is certintly
Wow !! how we struggle to make that mystifying reality, the ground of our reality. We are thereby gifted with the Foundational Rock, with Whom we can exist, live, grow, and be a creative life giving and life enhancing power of love. " The logos of God has become human so that you might learn from a human being how a human being may become Divine." Clement of Alexandria Another quote that got me having to dig deep, when at that moment in time, I only wanted EASY solutions, in my troubled life. This was the time of deep searching, as it was then, so it is now, and ever shall be until, my last breath.
" God became man, so that man could become God".Wherever there is The Logos, Love is in the process of creation. Yes ! there is a new creation breaking, through into existence. Creation is being being continued, anew, renewed, transfigured, and transformed , through the mystery of grace in action,
A hard fact I have only recently begun to accept, wherever there is death, there ,new life is, mysteriously birthed. Life and death are the two sides of the same coin. From the moment we are birthed we are beginning to, live. As we are living our daily lives, we are closer each lived day, to the day of our death. Then begins a new life in a deathless resurrected reality " Death, is, no more". Love, great grandpa Joe.
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