{"id":17451,"date":"2018-11-06T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17451"},"modified":"2018-11-06T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:31:23","slug":"seeing-with-gods-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17451","title":{"rendered":"Seeing with God\u2019s Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard Rohr<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Seeing with God\u2019s Eyes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday, November 6, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eyp_oL4m5k4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nLove [people] even in [their] sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God\u2019s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God\u2019s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. \u2014Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov [1]<br \/>\nGod refuses to be known in the way we usually know other objects; God can only be known by loving God. Yet much of religion has tried to know God by words, theories, doctrines, and dogmas. Belief systems have their place; they provide a necessary and structured beginning point, just as the dualistic mind is good as far as it goes. But then we need the nondual or mystical mind to love and fully experience limited ordinary things and to peek through the cloud to glimpse infinite and seemingly invisible things. This is the contemplative mind that can \u201cknow spiritual things in a spiritual way,\u201d as Paul says (1 Corinthians 2:13).<br \/>\nWhat does it mean when Jesus tells us to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind (not just our dualistic mind), and strength (Luke 10:27)? What does it mean, as the first commandment instructs us, to love God more than anything else? To love God is to love what God loves. To love God means to love everything . . . no exceptions.<br \/>\nOf course, that can only be done with divine love flowing through us. In this way, we can love things and people in themselves, for themselves\u2014not for what they do for us. That\u2019s when we begin to love our family, friends, and neighbors apart from what they can do for us or how they make us look. We love them as living images of God in themselves, despite their finiteness.<br \/>\nNow that takes work: constant detachment from ourselves\u2014our conditioning, preferences, and knee-jerk reactions. We can only allow divine love to flow by way of contemplative consciousness, where we stop eliminating and choosing. This is the transformed mind (see Romans 12:2) that allows us to see God in everything and empowers our behavior to almost naturally change.<br \/>\nReligion, from the root religio, means to reconnect, to bind back together. I would describe mystical moments as those attention-grabbing experiences that overcome the gap between you and other people, events, or objects, and even God, where the illusion of separation disappears. The work of spirituality is to look with a different pair of nondual eyes, beyond what Thomas Merton calls \u201cthe shadow and the disguise\u201d [2] of things until we can see them in their connectedness and wholeness. In a very real sense, the word \u201cGod\u201d is just a synonym for everything. So if you do not want to get involved with everything, stay away from God.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Young, Sarah. Jesus Calling<\/p>\n<p>November 6, 2018<\/p>\n<p>SEEK TO PLEASE ME above all else. As you journey through today, there will be many choice-points along your way. Most of the day\u2019s decisions will be small ones you have to make quickly. You need some rule of thumb to help you make good choices. Many people\u2019s decisions are a combination of their habitual responses and their desire to please themselves or others. This is not My way for you. Strive to please Me in everything, not just in major decisions. This is possible only to\u00a0the extent that you are living in close communion with Me.<\/p>\n<p>When My Presence is your deepest delight, you know almost instinctively what will please Me. A quick glance at Me is all you need to make the right choice. Delight yourself in Me more and more; seek My pleasure in all you do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN 8: 29; And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HEBREWS 11: 5\u2013 6; 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PSALM 37: 4;\u00a0Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of yo<\/strong>ur heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Rohr Seeing with God\u2019s Eyes Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Love [people] even in [their] sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God\u2019s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God\u2019s light. 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