My initial response to "How might seeing love as the very energy of the universe expand your understanding of faith and responsibility?": this recognition encourages me toward compassion, strengthens my courage to trust and have faith in the unfolding of life, and energizes my commitment to expand my ownership, authority and stewarding of the living Earth.
Living love into this great disruption is both joyful and gritty.
I find that in my own faith community more people are coalescing around active love and care - especially related to sanctuary and resistance work.
There is much more happening in our congregation around mutual care and mutual aid. I sense that many people are beginning to see the light - truly.
At Solstice and as Christmas nears, I recognize that we are nested in a great cloud of unknowing. Heaven and earth as we have known them are passing away.
Our false idol - Bronze Age Jesus - is melting away.
Stone Age emotions, Medieval Institutions, and god-like technology are a self-terminating combination.
What we call Christianity has forsaken Love and embraced the very Bronze Age concepts of God and human destiny that Jesus rejected.
We are not here to destroy or to create empires.
We do not create the “New Jerusalem” - that settler colonial religious belief is a remnant of the Bronze Age.
All humans and all human civilizations will pass away, and eventually our species will pass away as well. Jesus understood this. He pointed to the vulnerable, passing tiny birds and wildflowers as our teachers.
We are folded into Love, just as is the tiny bird and the wildflower.
We have no idea of the transformations that are even now under way, nor do we control them. “
The mytho-poetic language of ancient Scripture shows us how to be in the world while we are here. The story of Jesus tells us that eternal life is not something we can comprehend or manage. We are pointed away from creating empire. We are pointed away from obsession with eternal life. We are pointed to the opposite of these immature question. We are pointed to the real destination of our journey in this life. We are pointed toward radical acceptance, absolute vulnerability, and full loving presence in each moment.
In our world today, to follow Jesus is to live a short life, experience ecstatic compassion, and especially even to embrace suffering in order to bring healing and liberation from oppression for others.
We are invited to trust even in the predicaments of death and extinction. We do not control them and we never will.
When we love, we can make a way for life, but we do not love in order to survive. We love because we are here to love.
We can only love deeply in each moment - this is our only entry into the Kin-dom of Heaven.
Do not misunderstand me. We must be fierce in our willingness to follow Jesus in his example of taking on the woundedness of Creation.
We must protect those who are oppressed. I believe that we must nurture and include all creatures in the beloved community of Creation.
Where the need is greatest, there love goes to dwell.
But this is not so that we may go to Heaven when we die.
We enter into the Kin-dom of Heaven only as we love - in each moment.
My initial response to "How might seeing love as the very energy of the universe expand your understanding of faith and responsibility?": this recognition encourages me toward compassion, strengthens my courage to trust and have faith in the unfolding of life, and energizes my commitment to expand my ownership, authority and stewarding of the living Earth.
Love, organized, moves,
gathers heads, hearts, hands, shapes, builds.
Works on to-do lists.
...
True love, activist.
Caring kinship, keeps it real.
Simple, holy acts.
True words. Thank you!
Living love into this great disruption is both joyful and gritty.
I find that in my own faith community more people are coalescing around active love and care - especially related to sanctuary and resistance work.
There is much more happening in our congregation around mutual care and mutual aid. I sense that many people are beginning to see the light - truly.
At Solstice and as Christmas nears, I recognize that we are nested in a great cloud of unknowing. Heaven and earth as we have known them are passing away.
Our false idol - Bronze Age Jesus - is melting away.
Stone Age emotions, Medieval Institutions, and god-like technology are a self-terminating combination.
What we call Christianity has forsaken Love and embraced the very Bronze Age concepts of God and human destiny that Jesus rejected.
We are not here to destroy or to create empires.
We do not create the “New Jerusalem” - that settler colonial religious belief is a remnant of the Bronze Age.
All humans and all human civilizations will pass away, and eventually our species will pass away as well. Jesus understood this. He pointed to the vulnerable, passing tiny birds and wildflowers as our teachers.
We are folded into Love, just as is the tiny bird and the wildflower.
We have no idea of the transformations that are even now under way, nor do we control them. “
The mytho-poetic language of ancient Scripture shows us how to be in the world while we are here. The story of Jesus tells us that eternal life is not something we can comprehend or manage. We are pointed away from creating empire. We are pointed away from obsession with eternal life. We are pointed to the opposite of these immature question. We are pointed to the real destination of our journey in this life. We are pointed toward radical acceptance, absolute vulnerability, and full loving presence in each moment.
In our world today, to follow Jesus is to live a short life, experience ecstatic compassion, and especially even to embrace suffering in order to bring healing and liberation from oppression for others.
We are invited to trust even in the predicaments of death and extinction. We do not control them and we never will.
When we love, we can make a way for life, but we do not love in order to survive. We love because we are here to love.
We can only love deeply in each moment - this is our only entry into the Kin-dom of Heaven.
Do not misunderstand me. We must be fierce in our willingness to follow Jesus in his example of taking on the woundedness of Creation.
We must protect those who are oppressed. I believe that we must nurture and include all creatures in the beloved community of Creation.
Where the need is greatest, there love goes to dwell.
But this is not so that we may go to Heaven when we die.
We enter into the Kin-dom of Heaven only as we love - in each moment.
Love is fierce and love is tender.
All that we see and know will pass away.
Only Love remains.
Beautiful. Not only is Love a verb, unlike other forms of "energy" , it's "energy" is never destructive, it is infinite and eternal.