Wake UP

" There is no road from man to God, because the nature

of God is illimitable and infinite,

without beginning or end ... or even direction.

There is not a single atom ... of existent things with which God is not, ...

and which God does not comprise. "

 Sufi Thought

When you wake up, you begin to overcome your seperateness.

You begin to know tht you do not look out AT God over there,

But your look out FROM God, or, as Paul describes it, “I live no longer not I” (see Galatians 2:20)

            Richard Rohr

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According to Duns Scotus, each creature is a unique aspect of the infinite Mystery of God

There are perhaps other ways to put this

We come from the mystery that is whatever is greater than our selfs

We return to that mystery

When this mystery ends

We participate in the mystery

We carry it

And yes, at some level we “are” the mystery

Many wise people have suggested that we don’t have to find Sacred

We simply have to become awake to it

Awake to it in ourselves

And away to it in others

Only if we understand that we are all

A unique aspect of the mystery

Can we begin to understand Jesus

When he says

“when you do it for the least of these, you do it for me”

Only then can we know what he means when he says,

“I was a stranger and you took me in”

We must wake up to the mystery

Wake up to whatever it is

That drives us to love, to care, to heal to create

For while we know so little, really, about the reality many of us God call

(God is mystery, after all, and we simply cannot confine or define)

We do know this

God is love

And when we are awake to the mystery we are driven to love, to care, to give.

to have compassion, to forgive.

We can also assume, that when we are driven by other things

By fear, hate, ego, cruelty

We are not awake

So Wake up

Wake up

Wake up

There is an election coming up?

Which party (neither does very well) least reflects the way of the mystery

As revealed in Jesus?  (Spoiler:  IMHO its not the GOP and definitely not Mr. Trump)

There are desperate people heading toward out border

How do we as awake people see them?  As a threat?  Or as Jesus?

There are vulnerable people all around us

The ill, the aged, the wounded, the minorities, the disenfranchised, the “different”

Do we see them as throw away people, worthy of shame?

Or do we see them as precious children of God.

It is time to wake up