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"Accept you to be no other than your self Loving what I know of you  Trusting what I do not yet know With respect for your integrity  And faith in your abiding love for me"  Moses and Zipporah's vows.   

Just parking this quote "Once you know there is an implanted and positive direction to creation, you can go with the primary flow (faith); eventually you will learn to rest there (hope); and you can actually live this outflowing life with gracious trust (love)" Richard Rohr Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self (Jossey-Bass: 2013), 85-86

Thanks to my good friend Sister Agnes, I'm really enjoying the thoughts of Ron Rolheiser  here's a challenging insight in it's entirety.... DYING IN ORDER TO LIVE APRIL 5, 1993 Leo Tolstoy once commented that “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I like to think that restlessness is like that, it takes many forms but each of us is restless in his or her own way. One form of restlessness that many of us share in common, however, is a sense of feeling trapped in certain marriages, families, vocations, careers, churches, jobs and locations which frustrate us, but which, for all kinds of reasons, we feel powerless to ever leave. Hence, we live in a state of dissatisfaction and restlessness, unable really to make peace with our lot in life and yet unable to leave it either. Thus, we all know people who feel that their marriages are really not good, but who cannot ever leave those marriages, just as we know people who cannot make peace with the fact that t...

The mysticism of Rohr's thoughts often baffle me, comfort me while challenging me. I don't want to lose today's thoughts as I think there is a lot to chew over so as ever I park it here to revist. "Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God; and at its core, it is love itself. Love is both who you are and who you are still becoming, like a sunflower seed that becomes its own sunflower. Most of human history has referred to the True Self as your "soul" or "your participation in the eternal life of God." The great surprise and irony is that "you," or who you think you are, have nothing to do with your True Self's original creation or its ongoing existence. This is disempowering and utterly empowering at the same time. There's nothing you can do to make God love you more; and there's nothing you can do to make God love you less. All you can do is nurture your True Self, which is saying quite a lot. It is love bec...

"A lot of the world's knowledge is contained within science and philosophy, but most of the world's wisdom is contained in its religious and faith perspectives. Just as we cannot live on religion alone, so we cannot live on science and philosophy alone. Wisdom needs knowledge and knowledge needs wisdom. Science and religion need more deeply to befriend each other." Rolheiser

"It amazes me that we should have to prove the obvious to so many Christians, who for some sad reason prefer a static universe, which they presume they fully understand." (Richard Rohr)

"The Incarnation Means that God is in the Ordinary" Love these thoughts by Rolheiser... "We celebrate many things at Christmas, not the least of which is how scandalously easy it now is to see God. After the incarnation, every home is a monastery, every child is the Christ child, and all food and drink is a sacrament." We struggle to believe this. For many reasons, each of us has the propensity to miss seeing God in the ordinary because we are forever searching for him in the extraordinary...We no longer need to look for God in extraordinary visions—a sunset will do."