{"id":16916,"date":"2018-06-21T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16916"},"modified":"2018-06-21T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:45:11","slug":"walking-toward-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16916","title":{"rendered":"Walking Toward Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard Rohr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, June 21, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Summer Solstice<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0RwDpnKIvUI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Yesterday I explored the fundamental importance of <\/em><em>discovering and living out of our True Self, our <\/em>imago Dei<em>, the image of God that we are. <\/em><em>In the Center for Action and Contemplation\u2019s most recent edition of <\/em>Oneing,<em> \u201cAnger,\u201d actor, filmmaker, writer, and personal friend Josh Radnor writes about how living from our inherent divinity contributes to creating a just and loving world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his book<em> Carpe Jugulum, <\/em>Terry Pratchett has a character define sin thusly: \u201cSin, young man, is when you treat people like things.\u201d [1] . . .<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing the consequences of this everywhere these days: People are being <em>objectified. . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The translation of <em>Namaste <\/em>is one of infinite depth. It means: <em>The divinity in me . . . salutes the divinity in you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here we have an antidote to objectification. Something infinite, immortal, mysterious, loving, and alive abides <em>in me<\/em> and it is from this light that I bow toward that which is infinite, immortal, mysterious, loving, and alive <em>in you. <\/em>What if this was our set-point, our baseline, the fundamental assumption we had about every single person we encountered? All our reputations precede us: <em>We\u2019re divine<\/em>. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Mystics from every tradition testify to the aliveness and sentience of all things, that the natural world is lit up with the flame of divinity. This does and must include us. We\u2019re not taught this. In fact, most of what we\u2019re taught <em>opposes <\/em>this.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an urgency to this moment. We must choose between a world of subjects and a world of objects. To acknowledge the divinity of another, we must first accept our own, which is not nearly as easy as it sounds. . . . Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield [writes]:<\/p>\n<p>Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn\u2019t know how to be. If we fully acknowledged our dignity, it could lead us to radical life changes. It could ask something huge of us. [2]<\/p>\n<p>. . . So many of us carry a kind of unspoken assumption that something is very, very wrong with us, that we\u2019re damaged, guilty, and unlovable. Stepping into our divinity\u2014acknowledging and accepting our fundamental nobility\u2014is the ultimate paradigm shift. Kornfield is right. We cannot continue with business as usual after this. . . .<\/p>\n<p><em>Namaste <\/em>asks something huge of us: If the divinity in me recognizes the divinity in you, how could I abuse, debase, violate, or harass? I would, after all, only be punishing myself. . . .<\/p>\n<p>St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-c. 394) offered another beautiful, succinct, and useful definition of sin. <em>Sin,<\/em> he [suggested], <em>is a refusal to keep growing. <\/em>[3]<\/p>\n<p>This is a growing moment. Growth is painful.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe hell or heaven to be post-life destinations. I believe they are states of consciousness largely visible here and now. A world of objects is a kind of hell. A world of subjects\u2014divine beings honoring the divinity in the other\u2014is surely heaven. May we point our feet toward this heaven and begin the hard and necessary work of walking there.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Young, Sarah. Jesus Calling<\/p>\n<p>June 21, 2018<\/p>\n<p>WAIT PATIENTLY WITH ME while I bless you. Don\u2019t rush into My Presence with time-consciousness gnawing at your mind. I dwell in timelessness: I am, I was, I will always be. For you, time is a protection; you\u2019re a frail creature who can handle only twenty-four-hour segments of life. Time can also be a tyrant, ticking away relentlessly in your mind. Learn to master time, or it will be your master. Though you are a time-bound creature, seek to meet Me in timelessness. As you focus on My Presence, the demands of time and tasks will diminish. I will bless you and keep you, making My Face shine upon you graciously, giving you Peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MICAH 7:7<\/strong>; But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REVELATION 1:8; <\/strong>I am the Alpha and the Omega,\u201d says the Lord God, \u201cwho is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ECCLESIASTES 3:1<\/strong>; A Time for Everything &#8211; There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:<\/p>\n<p><strong>NUMBERS 6:24\u201326<\/strong>;\u00a0\u201cThe LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Rohr Thursday, June 21, 2018 Summer Solstice Yesterday I explored the fundamental importance of discovering and living out of our True Self, our imago Dei, the image of God that we are. 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