Life-Death-Life

November 23rd, 2018 by Dave Leave a reply »

Life-Death-Life
Friday, November 23, 2018

The whole process of living, dying, and then living again starts with YHWH “breathing into clay,” which becomes “a living being” called Adam (“of the earth”; see Genesis 2:7). Breath and what appears to be mere dirt become human (the word “human” comes from the Latin humus). Matter and spirit are bound together; divine and mortal interpenetrate and manifest one another. The Formless One forever takes on form as “Adam and Eve” (and in Jesus “the new Adam”), and then takes us back to the Formless One, once again, as each form painfully surrenders the small self that it has been for a while. Jesus says, “I am returning to take you with me, so that where I am you also may be” (John 14:3). Resurrection is simply incarnation taken to its logical conclusion: what starts in God ends in God—who is eternal.

Buddhists are looking at the same Mystery from a different angle when they say, “Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form,” and then all forms eventually return to formlessness (spirit or “emptiness”) once again. Christians call it incarnation > death > resurrection > ascension. This is about all of us, including all of creation—not just Jesus—coming forth as individuals and then going back to God, into the Ground of All Being. That cyclical wholeness should make us unafraid of death and thus able to fully appreciate life.

The Risen Christ represents the final and full state of every True Self: God-in-you who is able to see and honor God-everywhere-beyond-you too! In other words, Christ is more than anything else a “holon”—a scientific term for something that is simultaneously a whole by itself and yet a part of a larger whole, too. Jesus is telling us that we are all holons! We all participate in the one single life of God.

“To God, all people are in fact alive,” as Jesus put it (Luke 20:38…He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”). We are just in different stages of that aliveness—one of which we experience as dying.

Journal DJR
Good Morning Lord
Pretty somber stuff this morning… Or not, If we really get that death is part of life and we are just going on to (back to) a better place. I seem to get that, and then lose it, and then get it again. I think it will take a while to totally replace decades of living with one paradigm with the new paradigm. Thanks for these reminders.

Flow with me. Daily and all day long, as much as you can. We’ll get there together.

Many things these days seem to have physical – spiritual connection. I see that there’s a connection, but I can’t discern exactly what it is. Like last night when I fixed the carburetor on the snow blower. I vacillated on having someone do it… as I knew nothing about it. But dove in and got it done… not the way any of the YouTubes suggested. So perhaps I got encouraged that I can do anything I set my hand to. A life long belief, but one that I’m questioning the value and appropriateness of, as the years go by and muscles grow weaker, eyes dim and memory becomes less reliable.

The belief is good. I put it in you. And everything belongs. It can be mis-used for sure. If you mix it with your Big Four, need to look good, and feel good, be right and be in control, that belief can surely run you amuck. So bring those things to the cross. I have a better replacement for each of those big four waiting for you. Keep the belief that you can do anything. It is rare and valuable. Your kids need it. Learn to live in Spirit and Truth and discover each of my Better Big Four. And let them live and lead your life.

Philippians 4:13 (NLT) For I can do everything through Christ,[a] who gives me strength.

John 14:12-14 (NLT) “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. 13 You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. 14 Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!

There are times when it will indeed be better to let others do things. You can still know that (with me) you could do those things… but don’t have to. Actually you only want to do the ones that I ordain for you. They will go down peacefully.

So did you ordain the gummed up carburetor?

You had more to do with that… by lack of maintenance. But I chose to bless you in the recovery. And we’re having this conversation.

Those alternative Big Four have my attention. Probably too simplistic to just ask what they are??

You can always ask me anything. But many times, most times, the answers don’t fit in small boxes. they lead to discussions and have nuances.

Isaiah 55:8-9
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
9For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Like last nite for example. I was with you in it. But it was pretty brutal. You missed many turns and it could have been more elegant if you had been better tuned and hearing the Voice and Seeing the Next.

John 5:19 So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. 20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. In fact, the Father will show him how to do even greater works than healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished.

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