Dancing our Faith
I am a wanderer. I would say that I am a seeker, but sometimes I have no idea what I might be seeking, so I will stick with wanderer. This blog is more a public journal than anything. I don't claim to have life figured out. I simply stumble from mystery to mystery, and share my reflections along the way. Sometimes I feel burdened, and trudge. Sometimes? Well sometimes grace breaks through, and its time to dance.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
love
The
Moon asked me
to meet her in a field
tonight
I think
she has amorous
ideas
Fantastic
Hafiz
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on this day
when we talk about love
and pretend that a tiny
part of love is indeed the whole
when eros is celebrated
and equally powerful facets of love,
phileo and
storge
and agape are sometimes
neglected
let us remember
how big love really is
how it embraces
everything that
lifts up, and encourages
everything that protects
and builds
passion is there to be sure
but so too friendship
loyalty
kindness
generosity
patience
forgiveness
and let us remember that Love
is that from which all comes
and is that which holds
everything together
Love is
The Sacred One
God
And we can find Love everywhere
In a lover
A children
A parent
A friend
But also in
The moon
The sun
The wind
The trees
In the rivers and trees
And that is…
Fabulous
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
live like it's heaven
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll
never be hurt,
Sing like there's
nobody listening,
And live like it's
heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey
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Just good
theology, this
Live with gusto! Check
Live in love!
Check
Lift your
voice! Check!
But that last
line says it all
Live like its
heaven on earth
Exactly!
Think about it
Why did Jesus
come to this earth?
To teach us how
to get to heaven?
No!
Jesus came to
show the solidarity between heaven and earth
To remind us that
the earth is Sacred
And so are the
people who live on it.
He came to teach
us how to live on this earth
not how to
scratch our way to heaven
To teach us how
to bring the Kingdom of Heaven (or God)
In to being
Here!
Now!
And we are taught
to pray
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
On earth!
and we are
impelled to live accordingly
which means
fighting for justice
making peace
demanding and
creating equity
advocating for
and working for equality
We should support
nothing on this earth
That would not be
allowed in heaven
No caged children
No people without
clean water (or water at all)
No greed
No hate
Nothing
We should do
nothing on this earth
that would not be
acceptable in heaven
We should feed
the hungry
Clothe the naked
House the
homeless
We should be
people of
compassion
generosity
and kindness
we should live
like its heaven on earth
after all the
Kingdom is very
near
perhaps as near
as our breath
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Part of a whole
No one ever knows
what divine narrative God may be writing with the crooked lines of someone’s
struggles, misdeeds, and omissions”
John
O’Donohue
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to what degree do
I believe
that God is
engaged in my life
writing a divine
narrative of which I am
somehow
a part?
that is a good
question
I do believe that
we live on Sacred ground
Moses was not
unique
when his toes
clutched the earth of the Sinai
and he stood in
the flickering light of
divine fire
every step we
take
we are in touch
with what is Sacred
the earth
the sky
the mountains and
rivers
the flora and
fauna
that person we
stumble across
all contain God
participate in
God
are, in some
sense Sacred
and the more
aware one is of this
the more the
Divine influences
each step
each action
each word
each thought
if I see God in
the mountains
do I dare rip
that mountain apart for coal
if God is in that
river do I careless allow oil
to foul its
waters?
If I see God in
that child
can I pull her
from her mother
and throw her
into a cage?
If I sense the
that man is a Child of God
can I discard him
because he
happens to have an addiction?
I suspect that in
some mysterious way
we do participate
in some sort of divine narrative
But I suspect we participate
in that narrative as a single thread
participates in
an amazing handwoven carpet
We are woven into
the fabric of something huge and complex
In my hubris I
want God to be all about “me”
And my individual
journey
I want God
guiding each step
Determining my
path
Setting me on my
way
But the more I
participate in the mystery
the more I
understand that we are all so inextricably woven together
that we cannot
separate our narrative from all narratives
our narrative is
not more important than another’s narrative
we are not
singled out for blessing
or for curse
we are part of a
whole we cannot understand
we are in this
together
each of us doing
the best we can
moving along in
torturous fashion
but all
together
creating the
divine narrative
moving haltingly
toward that new
heaven
and more
importantly
that new earth
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