{"id":16723,"date":"2018-05-08T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16723"},"modified":"2018-05-08T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:37:43","slug":"16723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16723","title":{"rendered":"The Beloved Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/the-beloved-community-2018-05-08\/\"><strong>The Beloved Community<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday, May 8, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzzGL6XNIuw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. <\/em>\u2014Martin Luther King, Jr. [1]<\/p>\n<p><em>As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw clearly in the last years of his life, we face a real choice between chaos and community\u2014we need a moral revolution. If that was true fifty years ago, then we must be clear today: America needs a moral revival to bring about beloved community. <\/em>\u2014William J. Barber II [2]<\/p>\n<p>I believe that \u201cmoral revival\u201d is a natural outgrowth of realizing how connected we already are: what we do unto others or to the earth, we really do to ourselves. All created beings are included in this one Body of God. Protestant pastor and political leader Rev. Dr. William Barber writes:<\/p>\n<p>The main obstacle to beloved community continues to be the fear that people in power have used for generations to divide and conquer God\u2019s children who are, whatever our differences, all in the same boat. [3]<\/p>\n<p>It takes a contemplative, nondual mind to see foundational oneness\u2014that we truly are \u201cin the same boat.\u201d The first philosophical problem of \u201cthe one and the many\u201d is overcome in God as Trinity. The Trinity reveals that God is precisely <em>diversity maintained<\/em> (\u201cFather,\u201d \u201cSon,\u201d and \u201cHoly Spirit\u201d) and yet that same <em>diversity overcome <\/em>(God is One by reason of the infinite love shared between the Three). Each of the Three perfectly loves and is perfectly loved. And all is created in imitation of this divine shape of Reality. As of yet, we humans have neither done unity nor diversity very well. We have not solved the essential problem that was already resolved in God. (Please read that until it sinks in!)<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the spiritual journey is to discover and move toward connectedness and relationship on ever new levels, while also honoring diversity. We may begin by making connections with family and friends, with nature and animals, and then grow into deeper connectedness with those outside our immediate circle, especially people of races, religions, economic classes, gender, and sexual orientation that are different from our own. Finally, we can and will experience this full connectedness as union with God. For some it starts the other way around: they experience union with God\u2014and then find it easy to unite with everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Without connectedness and communion, we don\u2019t exist fully as our truest selves. Becoming who we really are is a matter of learning how to become more and more deeply connected. No one can possibly go to heaven alone\u2014or it would not be heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Inherent Goodness can always uphold you if you can trust it. I call that goodness \u201cGod,\u201d but you don\u2019t have to use that word at all. God does not care. <em>It is the trusting that is important.<\/em> When we fall into Primal Love, we realize that everything is foundationally okay\u2014and we are a part of that everything!<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus Calling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Young<\/p>\n<p>May 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p>DO NOT LONG FOR THE ABSENCE of problems in your life. That is an unrealistic goal since in this world you will have trouble. You have an eternity of problem-free living reserved for you in heaven. Rejoice in that inheritance, which no one can take away from you, but do not seek your heaven on earth. Begin each day anticipating problems, asking Me to equip you for whatever difficulties you will encounter. The best equipping is My living Presence, My hand that never lets go of yours. Discuss everything with Me. Take a lighthearted view of trouble, seeing it as a challenge that you and I together can handle. Remember that I am on your side, and I have overcome the world.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"df_con\">\n<div class=\"rwrl rwrl_pri\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblica.com\/en-us\/bible\/online-bible\/niv\/john\/16\/\">John 16:33<\/a><\/strong> <sup>33<\/sup>&#8220;I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblica.com\/en-us\/bible\/online-bible\/niv\/isaiah\/41\/\"><b>Isaiah 41:13<\/b><\/a> <sup>13<\/sup><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;\">For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblica.com\/en-us\/bible\/online-bible\/niv\/philippians\/4\/\"><b>Philippians 4:13<\/b><\/a> <sup>13<\/sup><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;\">I can do all this through him who gives me strength.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"b_vPanel\">\n<div>\n<hr class=\"df_fn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beloved Community Tuesday, May 8, 2018 The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. \u2014Martin Luther King, Jr. [1] As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw clearly in the last years of his life, we face a real choice between chaos and community\u2014we need a moral revolution. 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