{"id":19747,"date":"2021-01-22T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19747"},"modified":"2021-01-22T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:43:23","slug":"free-to-serve-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19747","title":{"rendered":"Free to Serve Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n03Jj0Q2cMI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>German theologian Dorothee\nS\u00f6lle (1929\u20132003) describes how seeing with God\u2019s eyes, hearing with God\u2019s\nears, and acting with God\u2019s passion for justice is a truly liberating\nexperience that benefits the entire community. S\u00f6lle writes: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the sense of theology that liberates, the\nsoul that is united with God sees the world with God\u2019s eyes. That soul, like\nGod, sees what otherwise is rendered invisible and irrelevant. It hears the\nwhimpering of starving children and does not let itself be diverted from real misery,\nbecoming one with God in perceiving and understanding as well as in acting. For\npeople in the slums, redemption does not consist of some great and far removed\nactor ending the misery of the oppressed. Rather, in coming so very close, that\nfar-near one acts in and through those who have become one with that actor. In\nliberating movements, the mystical eye sees God at work: seeing, hearing,\nacting, even in forms that are utterly secular. In the contingency of literacy\nprograms, or collaboration in building a school, God\u2019s action is manifest. It\nis a mysticism of wide-open eyes. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens really in the soul\u2019s union with\nGod in terms of liberation and of healing? It is an exercise in seeing how God\nsees, the perception of what is little and unimportant; it is listening to the\ncry of God\u2019s children who are in slavery in Egypt. God calls upon the soul to\ngive away its own ears and eyes and to let itself be given those of God. Only\nthey who hear with other ears can speak with the mouth of God. God sees what\nelsewhere is rendered invisible and is of no relevance. Who other than God sees\nthe poor and hears their cry? To use \u201cGod\u2019s senses\u201d does not mean simply\nturning inward but becoming free for a different way of living life: See what\nGod sees! Hear what God hears! Laugh where God laughs! Cry where God cries!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Allowing God to fully inhabit\nour senses does not mean we close ourselves off from the world but open\nourselves more fully to it. We are free to be fully ourselves but not to exist\nonly for ourselves. We are free to become Christ in the world to the same\nextent that we recognize the Christ in others, especially the last and the\nleast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German theologian Dorothee S\u00f6lle (1929\u20132003) describes how seeing with God\u2019s eyes, hearing with God\u2019s ears, and acting with God\u2019s passion for justice is a truly liberating experience that benefits the entire community. S\u00f6lle writes: In the sense of theology that liberates, the soul that is united with God sees the world with God\u2019s eyes. That [&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\/19747"}],"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=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19748,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}