h " My thoughts are NOT your thought, nor are my ways your ways, says The Lord. " As high as the heavens are above the earth......so high are my ways above your ways" Isiah 55.
" As far as the east is from the west, so far have, I, set your sins, behind you." Psalm 104 " " Seek the Lord, while He may be found...... call on Him, while He is still near. " Isiah 55 : 6
I am sorry for the delay. I had my back "shot-up", and the results, were not very pleasant. They have not improved. So this effort comes to you through, a murky, haze. You may a lot of work to do," more than usual", you may well, ask? There never was a promise of smooth sailing, that is not life's, reality !!
This is a " bookmark", Sunday. Not because of what is written, but because of what is read. This is a very mysterious, Sunday. The scriptures offer us layers and layers of mysterious, hidden, meanings. It will take the rest of your linear time to plunge the depths of what we are, gift-offered. Like any gift we have the freedom to open the gift, or allow it just to lie there. Neglect, is a common human response ? " All creation, is charged with the glory of, God." (Hopkins.) When we are attached intentionally to creation, we are plugged into the Infinite PowerSource. A Source, in Whose's Reality " we live, and move and have our being. This Power Source is never exhausted. The Power of creative Love is" renewed each morning". As That Power is renewed, so we being attached, are renewed, and invigorated as well. A day of new challenges necessitates a reinvigoration. Renewed to continue to seek, and search for "the buried treasure", " the Pearl of Great Price". The Price of The Pearl is great. It is gifted to us." We cannot "earn, deserve, or qualify"(Rohr) for this gift. We are invited to open, to unwrap, said gift, in each moment. In 2 Corinthians 4 6:7, " the gift comes to us in, earthen vessels" and the unwrapping, moment ? It is known to us as, the present
The reception of this gift is given to all, as gift. To some minds this is hard to accept. These minds raised in the transactional world have real difficulty accept the working of The Giver Who is " Gracious and merciful... compassionate towards all His works." That word "compassionate" is such a strong word. It means, " to suffer with". Yes ! our Ineffable Creator great plan is not to be, "distant from", but to be. "immersed in". Why ? because, " His thoughts are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways," and to add to the mystery," as high as the Heavens, are above the earth, so high are my thoughts, above your thoughts."( Isiah 55.) That is why " his ways are unsearchable". Yet there is some Power within our depths that draws us into an endless, seeking, and searching. There is always the hope that in some book, in some sermon, in some ???? we will finally arrive at an answer, that will enable us to cease the endless journey into mystery. St. Augustine summed it well oh. so many years ago, " You have made us for Yourself O Lord, and we will never rest, until we rest in You"
The You speaks about in within you, and I, we are the presence of The Ineffable Presence. Is that any radical than say, in our "weness", we are The Body of Christ.The power lies in the 'we", not in the I. Reflecting on The Mystical Body Body will aadd so much as to how we will enter the community, experience the strengthening, transforming power that is gifted through that simple word "we". There is another exploding field of thought, where the power and challenge of entanglement is essential for the evolutionary new awareness. There is that contemporary challenge of seeing some similarities between Christian Mystical though, and the broad scope of Quantum thought. That evolutionary reality adds so much to our sense of security, so necessary for our present journey into, insanity.
"Weness", is essential for a healthy mysterious journey. Then, "My thoughts are not, your thought", and they never will be. This does not prevent us from wanting to make "our plans" the Creative's Spirit's plan.We can blame anthropomorphism for that. The ultimate idolatry, creating a higher power according to our image and likeness. We are wrapped up in the endless process of making, our plan, and mistaking it for, The Plan, The Way. There is only one Way, and we are not it. We are called to have insights These insights are just a drop of water, compared to the expansive, ocean. These lines are from a prayer I love; "Make your way, my way. Make our way, be a revelation of The Way".
There is no change without, Paschal pain, leading to Paschal death.There is terminal pain, and then Paschal Pain. One signals the end, the other a new beginning. Something has to die, so, a birthing can take place . The pain of surrendering to The Plan is a sign that something new is taking root in our reality. This is The Power of The Cosmic Christ, ever present , and acting in us, then as a consequence, present in our evolutionary universe. As the health of the cell, so is the health of The Body. Now, where will this fit into your evolutionary reality, Galatians 2 " because I have suffered with Christ, it is He who lives, and not, I. The I no longer has an individual existence, (cf, entanglement). We have to become new "wine skins". The old cannot accommodate the expansion of "the new wine". Where have you found space to accommodate the challenges of, " The Christ in you", Colossians 1:27 ?? All of creation is waiting for your answer. We must " act our way into a new way of thinking.
So today we are to obey Isiah 55, and seek The Lord. Not "while He may be found", but " seek the Lord" Who has first found us. This was a life changer for " doubting Joe", "when you search for The Divine, it means that Divinity has found us." He has first found us, in the darkness of eternity. We have been brought into the light, and life. We are to do our "seeking" in the darkness of our depths, where The Light is, ALWAYS, to be found. Calling out, to The Lover in our depths, in silence, is ???
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