{"id":16135,"date":"2017-11-01T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16135"},"modified":"2017-11-01T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:03:37","slug":"coming-to-be-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=16135","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Be Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cosmology<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/coming-to-be-love-2017-11-01\/\"><strong>Coming to Be Love<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, November 1, 2017<br \/>\n(All Saints Day)<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FQ6HUtx0h_s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister and scientist, continues reflecting on love as the heart of the universe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To see the universe through the eyes of love helps us make sense of evolution, not as a process of cold, blind chance or randomness, but one of passion, yearning, novelty, union, gift, suffering, death, and new life. Love is the faithful heart of the cosmos, the constancy of all life; yet love seeks to become more being-in-love and hence is the energy of change. . . . The name \u201cGod\u201d points to this mystery of love in its unlimited depth, the center of all that is; love that overflows onto new life. <em>God is not a super-natural Being hovering above earth, but the supra-personal whole, the Omega, who exists in all and through all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God <em>is<\/em> love\u2014eternal, divine, overflowing, personal love. Love goes out to another for the sake of the other and manifests itself in relationship. Divine love is personally relational\u2014Trinity: Lover, Beloved, and the Breath of Love. Divine Love, breathed forth into Word incarnate, marks the history of evolution. . . . Every star, every galaxy, every leaf and bird breathed forth in divine Love, reveals the Christ who is the personal unity of divine being-in-love. From all eternity, God has sought to love another, to be love in another, and to be loved by the other forever\u2014this other is the Christ who is the aim and purpose of this evolutionary universe.<\/p>\n<p>[Evolution] is not only the universe coming to be, but it is God who is <em>coming to be.<\/em> Divine Love, poured into space-time, rises in consciousness and erupts in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, becoming the pledge of our future in the risen Christ: \u201cI am with you always until the end of the world\u201d (Matthew 28:20). We can read the history of our 13.7-billion-year-old universe as the rising up of Divine Love incarnate, which bursts forth in the person of Jesus, who reveals love\u2019s urge toward wholeness through reconciliation, mercy, peace, and forgiveness. Jesus <em>is<\/em> the love of God incarnate, the wholemaker who shows the way of evolution toward unity in love. . . . In Jesus, God comes to us from the future to be our future. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Christian life is a commitment to love, to give birth to God in one\u2019s own life and to become midwives of divinity in this evolving cosmos. <em>We are to be wholemakers of love in a world of change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In summary, this is why I (Richard) say we need to switch our thinking from \u201cJesus came to fulfill us\u201d to \u201cwe have come to fulfill Christ.\u201d We are a part of this ever-growing cosmic Christ that is coming to be in this one great big act of giving birth described in Romans 8:22.<\/em> [1]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gateway to Silence:<br \/>\n<\/strong>We live, move, and have our being in love.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou Are Not Your Own\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>By <a href=\"https:\/\/utmost.org\/oswald-chambers-bio\">Oswald Chambers<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><!-- \/.col-12 --> <!-- \/.row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<strong>Do you not know that\u2026you are not your own? \u2014<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=1+Corinthians+6%3A19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 Corinthians 6:19<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">There is no such thing as a private life, or a place to hide in this world, for a man or woman who is intimately aware of and shares in the sufferings of Jesus Christ. God divides the private life of His saints and makes it a highway for the world on one hand and for Himself on the other. No human being can stand that unless he is identified with Jesus Christ. We are not sanctified for ourselves. We are called into intimacy with the gospel, and things happen that appear to have nothing to do with us. But God is getting us into fellowship with Himself. Let Him have His way. If you refuse, you will be of no value to God in His redemptive work in the world, but will be a hindrance and a stumbling block.<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The first thing God does is get us grounded on strong reality and truth. He does this until our cares for ourselves individually have been brought into submission to His way for the purpose of His redemption. Why shouldn\u2019t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God\u2019s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, \u201cEnter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.\u201d If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmology Coming to Be Love Wednesday, November 1, 2017 (All Saints Day) Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister and scientist, continues reflecting on love as the heart of the universe. To see the universe through the eyes of love helps us make sense of evolution, not as a process of cold, blind chance or randomness, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16140,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions\/16140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}