Category: Various
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#Love & Grace
It’s amazing the impact that RELIGION has had on perverting the historical, the real JESUS! There just seems to be this paradigm among Christians, especially fundamentalists, that life needs to be FAIR. And in order that everyone is treated fairly, what is implied, and probably not understood, but there nonetheless, is that there’s no room…
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Being human and being here.
Do not be afraid stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. Exodus 14:10,13-16 So what does it take to qualify as a leader? Being human and being here. As long as I am here doing whatever I’m doing, I’m leading, for better or for worse, so are you.…
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God’s plan is so #perfect that even sin are used to bring us to divine union.
Most religious searches begin with one massive misperception. People tend to start by making a very unfortunate, yet understandable, division between the sacred and the profane worlds. Early stage religion focuses on identifying sacred places, sacred time, and seemingly sacred actions that then leave the overwhelming majority of life unsacred. People are told to look…
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All we need is right here and right now—in this world.
The visible world is an active doorway to the invisible world, and the invisible world is much larger than the visible. This is the mystery of incarnation, the essential union of the material and the spiritual worlds—or simply “Christ.” Our outer world and its inner significance must come together for there to be any wholeness—and…
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#Love is not loved!
The experiences of God’s love revealed to Francis our fragile and temporary place within creation. He knew that we share this earth, our loves and work with all of God’s creatures, our brothers and sisters. Unlike the monastic life, which strove to domesticate nature and to bring it under control, Francis expected to live lightly…
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Don’t waste any time dividing the world into the #good guys and the #bad guys.
Francis also said as he lay dying, “I have done what is mine; may Christ teach you what is yours!” [2] We cannot change the world except insofar as we have changed ourselves. We can only give away who we are. We can only offer to others what God has done in us. We have…
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