YES. Yes, yes. Not to hustle, but only to say I'm with you, Tara, I'm a kindred spirit, this is what I said, too, at the end of my first essay at Sabbath Empire: "For a moment, let's stop trying to figure out what went wrong with everything, and go outside into the sun—it's still there...Let's find a tree or a rock or a little pond or even a stray blade of grass pushing up through the asphalt of the roof of the apartment complex, and sit comfortably beside it—it's still there. Let's take a few very long, slow, deep breaths through the nostrils, exhaling very slowly each time—we're still there. And then let's say, “Lord Yeshua Messiah, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner”—he's still there, too. And he's all we really need."
This speaks to my heart. Such a profound and precise encapsulation of our moment. And oddly, unutterably hopeful. Thank you.
I am increasingly on watch for those who read the times as I do, who expand and sharpen my vision, speak the language and share the meaning-making that signal *my tribe.* I'm so glad I found you, thanks to Rod Dreher. And to Him, Who inspires your thought and gives you voice.
This is beautiful. Discovering pieces like this is so helpful when quiet, individual protests against those small insidious manipulations of reality gets you eye rolls from others!
What God creates, shares being. What we make is artificially derived - except that we participated in the extension of Creation. Such that 'judgement' sets over and apart, as an artificial construct set in and by conflict & struggle under fear pain and loss; while discernment reveals knowing within All That Is - as felt awareness of the qualities of integral being - to which thought aligns in service instead of running dissociated, as mis-taken inheritances.
Narcissus in addicted image can figure for Human thinking. Is this our first begotten 'son' that we are called to yield in exchange for a conscious Covenant with Living Thought?
God is Source-Nature of Self in All and All in One - we cannot 'think' miraculously but that we release or yield to That Which Is - as the moment at hand. Always nigh - yet an perpetually busy mind has every kind of self-justifiction running for why to attend its own unfinished business first.
So don't just Do Something - Stand There!
Our resort to being is not an answer or response to any framed problem set to seek answer in some other moment, place or time. but re-alignment in and of the life we are as the basis to draw from and be moved by a true of being - to which all else must serve if we hold faith in purpose of healing and renewal.
How then shall I think, say and do? - but of a living will that I do not and can not make - but that receives all I thought to make to use for the healing of the split mind, that thinks it thinks alone, cast out, and beset by guilted fear set irrevocably by judgement.
Artifice is a masking 'reality' - but WHO told you you were naked?
Self-imaged consciousness serves a stepping stone to conscious co-creative being in true relational endeavour. But as grievance set holy, runs dark to its own Calling, perceiving threat in every situation as the call to war justified! In which a self made of lack and denial claims vindication in death set over life as 'victory'. There is no satiating such an 'appetite'. No resting point of sufficiency. True forgiveness accepts release from our grievances & hates in the 'othered' - be that our body, or our world. Give only as in truth we would receive, now and now - for willingness is always a present receptive to the unique discernment of the moment at hand. Through which is recognition extended - with or without a word. A qualitative consciousness is the root and branch of a true cultural endeavour.
YES. Yes, yes. Not to hustle, but only to say I'm with you, Tara, I'm a kindred spirit, this is what I said, too, at the end of my first essay at Sabbath Empire: "For a moment, let's stop trying to figure out what went wrong with everything, and go outside into the sun—it's still there...Let's find a tree or a rock or a little pond or even a stray blade of grass pushing up through the asphalt of the roof of the apartment complex, and sit comfortably beside it—it's still there. Let's take a few very long, slow, deep breaths through the nostrils, exhaling very slowly each time—we're still there. And then let's say, “Lord Yeshua Messiah, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner”—he's still there, too. And he's all we really need."
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
This speaks to my heart. Such a profound and precise encapsulation of our moment. And oddly, unutterably hopeful. Thank you.
I am increasingly on watch for those who read the times as I do, who expand and sharpen my vision, speak the language and share the meaning-making that signal *my tribe.* I'm so glad I found you, thanks to Rod Dreher. And to Him, Who inspires your thought and gives you voice.
You are a friend, I think. Thank you for your earlier encouragement.
This is beautiful. Discovering pieces like this is so helpful when quiet, individual protests against those small insidious manipulations of reality gets you eye rolls from others!
That last image is absolutely stunning, too.
What God creates, shares being. What we make is artificially derived - except that we participated in the extension of Creation. Such that 'judgement' sets over and apart, as an artificial construct set in and by conflict & struggle under fear pain and loss; while discernment reveals knowing within All That Is - as felt awareness of the qualities of integral being - to which thought aligns in service instead of running dissociated, as mis-taken inheritances.
Narcissus in addicted image can figure for Human thinking. Is this our first begotten 'son' that we are called to yield in exchange for a conscious Covenant with Living Thought?
God is Source-Nature of Self in All and All in One - we cannot 'think' miraculously but that we release or yield to That Which Is - as the moment at hand. Always nigh - yet an perpetually busy mind has every kind of self-justifiction running for why to attend its own unfinished business first.
So don't just Do Something - Stand There!
Our resort to being is not an answer or response to any framed problem set to seek answer in some other moment, place or time. but re-alignment in and of the life we are as the basis to draw from and be moved by a true of being - to which all else must serve if we hold faith in purpose of healing and renewal.
How then shall I think, say and do? - but of a living will that I do not and can not make - but that receives all I thought to make to use for the healing of the split mind, that thinks it thinks alone, cast out, and beset by guilted fear set irrevocably by judgement.
Artifice is a masking 'reality' - but WHO told you you were naked?
Self-imaged consciousness serves a stepping stone to conscious co-creative being in true relational endeavour. But as grievance set holy, runs dark to its own Calling, perceiving threat in every situation as the call to war justified! In which a self made of lack and denial claims vindication in death set over life as 'victory'. There is no satiating such an 'appetite'. No resting point of sufficiency. True forgiveness accepts release from our grievances & hates in the 'othered' - be that our body, or our world. Give only as in truth we would receive, now and now - for willingness is always a present receptive to the unique discernment of the moment at hand. Through which is recognition extended - with or without a word. A qualitative consciousness is the root and branch of a true cultural endeavour.