{"id":17311,"date":"2018-10-04T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17311"},"modified":"2018-10-04T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:01:34","slug":"listening-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17311","title":{"rendered":"Listening and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unknowing: Week 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Listening and Learning<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, October 4, 2018;\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Feast of Francis of Assisi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qv-SXz_exKE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHuman history is in a time of great flux, of great cultural and spiritual change. The psyche doesn\u2019t know what to do with so much information. I am told that if you take all of the information that human beings had up until 1900 and call that one unit, that unit now doubles every ten years. No wonder there\u2019s so much anxiety, confusion, and mistaking fact for fiction and fiction for fact!<br \/>\nIn light of today\u2019s information overload, people are looking for a few clear certitudes by which to define themselves. We see various forms of fundamentalism in many religious leaders when it serves their cultural or political worldview. We surely see it at the lowest levels of religion\u2014Christianity as well as Judaism, Islam, and secular fundamentalism, too\u2014where God is used to justify violence, hatred, prejudice, and whatever is \u201cmy\u201d way of doing things.<br \/>\nThe fundamentalist mind likes answers and explanations so much that it remains willfully ignorant about how history arrived at those explanations or how self-serving they usually are. Satisfying untruth is more pleasing to us than unsatisfying truth, and Big Truth is invariably unsatisfying\u2014at least to the small self.<br \/>\nGreat spirituality, on the other hand, seeks a creative balance between opposites. As Jesuit William Johnston writes, \u201cFaith is that breakthrough into that deep realm of the soul which accepts paradox with humility.\u201d [1] When you go to one side or the other too much, you find yourself either overly righteous or overly skeptical and cynical. There must be a healthy middle, as we try to hold both the necessary light and darkness.<br \/>\nWe cannot settle today\u2019s confusion by pretending to have absolute and certain answers. But we must not give up seeking truth, observing reality from all its angles. We settle human confusion not by falsely pretending to settle all the dust, but by teaching people an honest and humble process for learning and listening, which we call contemplation. Then people come to wisdom in a calm and compassionate way. There will not be the knee jerk overreactions that we have in so many on both Left and Right today.<br \/>\nThe Judeo-Christian tradition was not supposed to be a top-down affair, but an organic meeting between an Inner Knower (the Indwelling Holy Spirit) accessed by prayer and experience; and the Outer Knower, which we would call Scripture (Holy Writings) and Tradition (all the ancestors). This is a calm and wonderfully healing way to know full Reality.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Young, Sarah. Jesus Calling<\/p>\n<p>October 4, 2018<\/p>\n<p>AM THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: Lord of all that is and all that will ever be. Although I am unimaginably vast, I choose to dwell within you, permeating you with My Presence. Only in the spirit realm could Someone so infinitely great live within someone so very small. Be awed by the Power and the Glory of My Spirit within you! Though the Holy Spirit is infinite, He deigns to be your Helper. He is always ready to offer\u00a0assistance; all you need to do is ask. When the path before you looks easy and straightforward, you may be tempted to go it alone instead of relying on Me. This is when you are in the greatest danger of stumbling. Ask My Spirit to help you as you go each step of the way. Never neglect this glorious Source of strength within you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN 14: 16\u2013 17 NKJV; And I will pray the Father, and He will give you anotherHelper, that He may abide with you forever\u2014 17 the ..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN 16: 7; But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ZECHARIAH 4: 6;\u00a0So he said to me, \u201cThis is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: &#8216;Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,&#8217; says the LORD Almighty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknowing: Week 1 Listening and Learning Thursday, October 4, 2018;\u00a0Feast of Francis of Assisi Human history is in a time of great flux, of great cultural and spiritual change. The psyche doesn\u2019t know what to do with so much information. 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