{"id":21935,"date":"2022-12-22T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21935"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:05:17","slug":"the-fullness-of-our-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21935","title":{"rendered":"The Fullness of Our Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Katy Nichole (feat. Big Daddy Weave) - God Is In This Story (with lyrics)(2022)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F8KOW6qEzuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Father Greg Boyle is the Founder of Homeboy Industries, which offers jobs, services, and dignity to former gang members. He has witnessed the healing that comes from having reverence for reality\u2014which is where we bump into God. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We remember the sacred by our reverence. . . . This is the esteem we extend to the reality revealed to us. Jesus didn\u2019t abandon his reality, he lived it. <strong>He ran away from nothing and sought some wise path through everything. He engaged in it all with acceptance.<\/strong> He had an eye out always for cherishing his reality. <strong>A homie, Leo, wrote me: \u201cI\u2019m going to trust God\u2019s constancy of love to hover over my crazy ass. I\u2019m fervent in my efforts to cultivate holy desires.\u201d This is how we find this other kind of stride and joyful engagement in our cherished reality. The holy rests in every single thing. Yes, it hovers, over our crazy asses. . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always liked that Saint Kateri Tekakwitha\u2019s name \u201cTekakwitha\u201d means \u201cshe who bumps into things.\u201d <strong>What if holiness is a contact sport and we are meant to bump into things? This is what it means to embrace a contemplative, mystical way of seeing wholeness. It gives a window into complexity and keeps us from judging and scapegoating and demonizing. If we allow ourselves to \u201cbump into things,\u201d then we quit measuring. We cease to Bubble-Wrap ourselves against reality. We stop trying to \u201chomeschool\u201d our way through the world so that the world won\u2019t touch us. Hard to embrace the world . . . if we are so protective and defensively shielded from it<\/strong>. A homie told me once, \u201cIt\u2019s taken me all these years to see the real world. And once ya see it\u2014there\u2019s only God there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Boyle closes the gap between the secular and the sacred:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t want to distance the secular but always bring it closer. It\u2019s only then that ordinary things and moments become epiphanies of God\u2019s presence. Some man said to me once, \u201cI want to become more spiritual.\u201d Yet God is inviting us to inhabit the fullness of our humanity. <strong>God holds out wholeness to us. Let\u2019s not settle for just spiritual. We are sacramental to our core when we think that everything is holy. The holy not just found in the supernatural but in the Incarnational here and now. The truth is that sacraments are happening all the time if we have the eyes to see. . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The point of the Incarnation is that Jesus is one of us in the ordinary. Jesus is God\u2019s declaration that the Infinite is present in it all. . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our mystical \u201cdiving in\u201d is at the heart of the Incarnation. <strong>Jesus ONLY referred to himself as the Son of Man, which means the Human One. It must be important. It shows up eighty-seven times in the Bible. \u201cNever say it\u2019s not God,\u201d if it\u2019s human, in the flesh, and ever-present.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you ponder the majestic mystery of the incarnation, relax in My everlasting arms. Do not try to understand, simply surrender, worship and follow Me. I am the light that guides you to peace and tranquility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 1:14 And<strong>&nbsp;the Word became flesh<\/strong>&nbsp;and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.&#8221; In this verse, John is communicating that Jesus (the Word) is the entire message, the complete message, God wanted to send to earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 2:10-11 NKJV <strong>When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy<\/strong>. 11 And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. 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