{"id":15984,"date":"2017-09-01T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2017-09-01T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T14:07:02","slug":"cosmic-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15984","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic Forgiveness<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGvGsApcnWA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world\u2019s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned. \u2014Annie Dillard [1]<\/p>\n<p>The Gospel accepts that life is tragic, but it graciously adds that we can survive and will even grow from this tragedy. This is the great turnaround! It all depends on whether we are willing to see down as up and learn to draw upon the Infinite Source.<\/p>\n<p>We should have been prepared for this pattern, given that the whole drama was set in motion by a seeming \u201ctransgression\u201d of Adam and Eve, and then the whole world was redeemed, say many Christians, by an act of violent murder! The problem is part of the solution. The genius of the biblical revelation is that it refuses to deny the dark side of things, but forgives failure and integrates falling to achieve wholeness.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is never upset at \u201csinners\u201d; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners! Jesus was fully at home with a tragic sense of life. He lived, died, and rose inside it. Jesus\u2019 ability to find a higher order inside constant disorder is the very heart of his message\u2014and why true Gospel, as rare as it might be, still heals and renews all that it touches.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus found and named the unified field beneath all the contradictions, which Annie Dillard speaks of. If we do not find that unified field, \u201cour complex and inexplicable caring for each other,\u201d or what Buddhists call the Great Compassion, there is no healing to life\u2019s inconsistencies and contradictions. Paul would call the unified field love: \u201cIt bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things\u201d (1 Corinthians 13:7). Mature spirituality is about getting you back and down into the unified field, where you started anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The forgiveness we truly need goes beyond forgiveness for this or that transgression. Ultimately, we each need universal, cosmic forgiveness for being who I am and for reality being what it is. The struggle to forgive this simultaneously broken and unified field of reality breaks us through to nondual consciousness. This is key! And, remember, in that inspired story of Adam and Eve, it is God who \u201cmade tunics of skins to clothe them\u201d and take away their shame and sense of separateness (Genesis 3:21). God reminds them of the unified field, or \u201cthe house of belonging\u201d as poet David Whyte loves to call it [2], even as they depart the garden of innocence and naivety.<\/p>\n<p>Gateway to Silence:<br \/>\nCreate in me a clean heart. \u2014Psalm 51:10<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Destined To Be Holy<br \/>\n<strong><em>\u2026it is written, &#8220;Be holy, for I am holy.&#8221; \u20141 Peter 1:16<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness. Today we have far too many desires and interests, and our lives are being consumed and wasted by them. Many of them may be right, noble, and good, and may later be fulfilled, but in the meantime God must cause their importance to us to decrease. The only thing that truly matters is whether a person will accept the God who will make him holy. At all costs, a person must have the right relationship with God.<\/p>\n<p>Do I believe I need to be holy? Do I believe that God can come into me and make me holy? If through your preaching you convince me that I am unholy, I then resent your preaching. The preaching of the gospel awakens an intense resentment because it is designed to reveal my unholiness, but it also awakens an intense yearning and desire within me. God has only one intended destiny for mankind\u2014 holiness. His only goal is to produce saints. God is not some eternal blessing-machine for people to use, and He did not come to save us out of pity\u2014 He came to save us because He created us to be holy. Atonement through the Cross of Christ means that God can put me back into perfect oneness with Himself through the death of Jesus Christ, without a trace of anything coming between us any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind\u2014 placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic Forgiveness In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world\u2019s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}