Daily Meditations

[BlkSabbath74]

Going to start posting these, mostly as a place marker for myself, but also for anyone interested to share and respond.

Martin Luther King: Redemptive Suffering

Modern Peace Makers Martin Luther King: Redemptive Suffering Tuesday, October 27, 2015 I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving

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It is evil we are seeking to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. Those of us who struggle against racial injustice must come to see that the basic tension is not between races. . . . The tension is at bottom between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. . . . At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love. . . . To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. - MLK

Heaven and Earth Are One

The Cosmic Christ: Week 1 Heaven and Earth Are One Thursday, October 27, 2016 After the microcosmic moment of Jesus, human and divine in time, the

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Most of Christianity has been doing just that, straining to find the historical Jesus “up there.” Where did he go? We’ve been obsessed with the question because we think the universe is divided into separate levels—heaven and earth. But it is one universe and all within it is transmuted and transformed by the glory of God. The whole point of the Incarnation and Risen Body is that the Christ is here—and always was!

Suffering: Week 2 Summary

Suffering: Week 2 Summary: Sunday, October 21-Friday, October 26, 2018 The genius of Jesus’ ministry is that he reveals that God uses tragedy, suffering,

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I don’t know where to start.
Or how to bare this heart.
But I fear I’ve become what’s been done to me.

Rummage Sales

Church: Old and New Rummage Sales Sunday, October 27, 2019 I have come to set fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already blazing. —Luke 12:49

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As Phyllis Tickle (1934–2015) reflected, in the process of building necessary structure in institutions, we eventually “elaborate, encrust, and finally embalm them with the accretion of both our fervor and our silliness. At that point there is no hope for either religion or society, save only to knock the whole carapace off ourselves and start over again.”

Falling Away from I AM

Thomas Keating: The Secret Embrace, Part Two Falling Away from I AM Tuesday, October 27, 2020 To be nothing Is to consent to being a simple creature. This

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When there is no fixed point of reference to “take it home to,” to make it about “my experience of I AM,” then there is only the bare “I AM.” Then even that may shed its skin. “Then the ‘I’ may fall away, / Leaving just the AM.” . . . Thomas Merton

Made in the Divine Image

Original Goodness Made in the Divine Image Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Father Richard views religion’s purpose as reminding us of who we truly are: The

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In each human soul there exists a divine element, a kind of inner eye capable of glimpsing something of God, for there exists a deep relationship, an affinity between human and divine nature. [3]

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[Toadman005]

Hippy bullshit.

Kidding. Thanks for posting these.

 

[tinp]

Sorry, wrong place, I thought title said "...Medications..."

 

[BlkSabbath74]

Hippy bullshit.

Kidding. Thanks for posting these.

Some of the rabbit holes I go down can be defined as such, but I'm cool with that. Unlike some folks, I am not afraid to explore dissenting opinions.

 

[Fishin-4-a-Livin]

Sorry, wrong place, I thought title said "...Medications..."

That’s exactly what I thought.


Figured we were gonna start a swap meet or something.

 

[LyquidMetal]

As I've mentioned before I am a member of AA. In my morning meditation(which includes coffee) this reading was a part of it.
In AA we don't get into politics religion or whatever. Just a primary purpose of staying sober and helping those who want help.

But this has a bit of a ring to it considering what's going on.

All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations
and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed
for or tempted into controversy. Others fell apart because
of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon
the rest of mankind some millenium of their own specification.

 

[BlkSabbath74]

From Sunday...

Modern Peace Makers: Weekly Summary

Modern Peace Makers Summary: Sunday, October 25-Friday, October 30, 2015 “Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the

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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence. -Mother Teresa

Bigger than Christianity

The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 Bigger than Christianity Monday, October 31, 2016 The “Christ Mystery” is much bigger than Christianity as an organized

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The “Christ Mystery” is much bigger than Christianity as an organized religion. If we don’t understand this, Christians will have little ability to make friends with, build bridges to, understand, or respect other religions or the planet. Jesus did not come to create a country club or a tribe of people who could say, “We’re in and you’re out. We’ve got the truth and you don’t.” Jesus came to reveal something that was true everywhere, for everyone, and all the time.

Love at the Heart of the Universe

Cosmology Love at the Heart of the Universe Tuesday, October 31, 2017 We used to believe that reality was comprised of little separate “elemental”

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Quantum physics is based on the primacy of energy and the interconnectedness of all that exists. . . . Being is intrinsically relational and exists as unbroken wholeness. Each part is connected with every other part. . . . We are, fundamentally, wholes within wholes. [David] Bohm wrote:

Reformation 500th Anniversary

500th Anniversary of the Beginnings of the Reformation Today we celebrate an important milestone in the history of Western Christianity. On this day in

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Today we celebrate an important milestone in the history of Western Christianity. On this day in 1517, an Augustinian friar named Martin Luther posted his famous “95 Theses” to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. This set off a much-needed firestorm that has continued to this day. “I have come to set fire upon the earth and how I wish it were already blazing,” says Jesus (Luke 12:49). The flames of the reformation are still burning, bringing regeneration and new life in their wake.

The Face of the Others

Love: Week 1 The Face of the Others Wednesday, October 31, 2018 In Jesus, God gave us a human heart we could love. While God can be described as a moral

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In Jesus, God gave us a human heart we could love. While God can be described as a moral force, as consciousness, and as high vibrational energy, the truth is, we don’t (or can’t?) fall in love with abstractions. So God became a person “that we could hear, see with our eyes, look at, and touch with our hands” (1 John 1:1).

Breakthroughs

Church: Old and New Breakthroughs Thursday, October 31, 2019 Whether or not they are acknowledged publicly, those on the margins and their allies

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“No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:3). In the Spirit, we know that the Church is the difference Jesus of Nazareth has made and makes in human history. And what is the Church but a society held together not by power but by love? This polity of love stems from the self-consecration of Jesus as our lover nailed to the cross of our power, manifest in his resurrection to draw all things to himself. This is the secret of the Church, the ripple effect of Calvary.

Thomas Keating: The Secret Embrace, Part Two: Weekly Summary

Thomas Keating: The Secret Embrace, Part Two Summary: Sunday, October 25—Friday, October 30, 2020 To begin this second week exploring Thomas Keating’s

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The contemplative state enables one to rest and act at the same time because one is rooted in the source of both rest and action. —Thomas Keating

 

[BlkSabbath74]

Today - Happy All Saints Day...

An Evolving Cosmology

Science: Week 1 An Evolving Cosmology Sunday, November 1, 2015 (All Saints Day) We’re living in a truly amazing time. The ever broader shape of the cosmos

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As Ilia Delio says, “We’re reaching a fork in the road; two paths are diverging on planet earth, and the one we choose will make all the difference for the life of the planet. Shall we continue our medieval religious practices in a medieval paradigm and mechanistic culture and undergo extinction? Or shall we wake up to this dynamic, evolutionary universe and the rise of consciousness toward an integral wholeness?” [4] This is the paradigm shift that is being asked of our generation.

All-Inclusive, All-Pervading

The Cosmic Christ: Week 2 All-Inclusive, All-Pervading Tuesday, November 1, 2016 (All Saints' Day) Human beings are programmed to love all other living

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Human beings are programmed to love all other living beings. We fall in love with persons and creatures, not so much with concepts or energies. We need “interface.” And so the Word or the Blueprint became flesh—one humble human, a Jewish Nazarene, called Jesus. Though it seems he was not particularly attractive, and many people despised and rejected him (see Isaiah 53:2-3 or Mark 3:21), Jesus in his full humanity was still alluring. We can relate to his suffering, his kindness, his friendship, his constant inclusivity.

Coming to Be Love

Cosmology Coming to Be Love Wednesday, November 1, 2017 (All Saints Day) Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister and scientist, continues reflecting on love as

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To see the universe through the eyes of love helps us make sense of evolution, not as a process of cold, blind chance or randomness, but one of passion, yearning, novelty, union, gift, suffering, death, and new life. Love is the faithful heart of the cosmos, the constancy of all life; yet love seeks to become more being-in-love and hence is the energy of change. . . . The name “God” points to this mystery of love in its unlimited depth, the center of all that is; love that overflows onto new life. God is not a super-natural Being hovering above earth, but the supra-personal whole, the Omega, who exists in all and through all.

Self-Giving

Love: Week 1 Self-Giving Thursday, November 1, 2018 All Saints' Day Divine love is compassionate, tender, luminous, totally self-giving, seeking no

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The mystics experience this full body blow of the Divine loving and accepting them, and the rest of their life is about trying to verbalize and embody that. They invariably find ways to give that love back through forms of service and worship; but it’s never earning the love, it’s always returning the love. Can you feel the difference? God’s love is almost a different language. It’s not based in fear, but in ecstasy.

If We Were Christian

Church: Old and New If We Were Christian Friday, November 1, 2019 All Saints' Day Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club,

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1. Jesus is a model for living more than an object of worship.
2. Affirming people’s potential is more important than reminding them of their brokenness.
3. The work of reconciliation should be valued over making judgments.
4. Gracious behavior is more important than right belief.
5. Inviting questions is more valuable than supplying answers.
6. Encouraging the personal search is more important than group uniformity.
7. Meeting actual needs is more important than maintaining institutions.
8. Peacemaking is more important than power.
9. We should care more about love and less about sex.
10. Life in this world is more important than the afterlife

Solidarity: A Public Virtue

Public Virtue Solidarity: A Public Virtue Sunday, November 1, 2020 Citizens of the United States will finish voting this week. Many of us are feeling

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We must use the power of the Gospel to critique and affirm both the Left and the Right on most public positions, even while knowing that political or programmatic changes—of themselves—will never fully bring about the goodness, charity, or transformation that the Gospel offers the world.

A Foundation for the Common Good

Rediscovering the Common Good A Foundation for the Common Good Monday, November 1, 2021 Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners ministry and a longtime friend

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Christianity is not a religion that gives some people a ticket to heaven and makes them judgmental of all others. Rather, it’s a call to a relationship that changes all our other relationships. Jesus told us a new relationship with God also brings us into a new relationship with our neighbor, especially with the most vulnerable of this world, and even with our enemies. But we don’t always hear that from the churches. This call to love our neighbor is the foundation for reestablishing and reclaiming the common good, which has fallen into cultural and political—and even religious—neglect.

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