{"id":19950,"date":"2021-03-19T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19950"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:25:35","slug":"gods-love-is-evolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19950","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Love Is Evolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4exlSk0AL78\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Ilia Delio, a Franciscan\nsister and scientist, and a friend, reflects on love as the heart of the\nuniverse.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see the universe through the eyes of love\nhelps us make sense of evolution, not as a process of cold, blind chance or\nrandomness, but one of passion, yearning, novelty, union, gift, suffering,\ndeath, and new life. Love is the faithful heart of the cosmos, the constancy of\nall life; yet love seeks to become more being-in-love and hence is the energy\nof change. . . . The name \u201cGod\u201d points to this mystery of love in its unlimited\ndepth, the center of all that is; love that overflows onto new life. <em>God is not a super-natural Being hovering\nabove earth, but the supra-personal whole, the Omega, who exists in all and\nthrough all (RR-emphasis mine). <\/em>God <em>is<\/em> love\u2014eternal, divine, overflowing, personal\nlove. Love goes out to another for the sake of the other and manifests itself\nin relationship. Divine love is personally relational\u2014Trinity: Lover, Beloved,\nand the Breath of Love. Divine Love, breathed forth into Word incarnate, marks\nthe history of evolution. . . . Every star, every galaxy, every leaf and bird\nbreathed forth in Divine Love, reveals the Christ who is the personal unity of\ndivine being-in-love. From all eternity, God has sought to love another, to be\nlove in another, and to be loved by the other forever\u2014this other is the Christ\nwho is the aim and purpose of this evolutionary universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. . . Evolution is not only the universe\ncoming to be, but it is God who is <em>coming\nto be.<\/em> Divine Love, poured into space-time, rises in consciousness\nand erupts in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, becoming the pledge of our future\nin the risen Christ: \u201cI am with you always until the end of the world\u201d (Matthew\n28:20). We can read the history of our 13.7-billion-year-old universe as the\nrising up of Divine Love incarnate, which bursts forth in the person of Jesus,\nwho reveals love\u2019s urge toward wholeness through reconciliation, mercy, peace\nand forgiveness. Jesus <em>is<\/em>\nthe love of God incarnate, the wholemaker who shows the way of evolution toward\nunity in love. . . . In Jesus, God comes to us from the future to be our\nfuture. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian life is a commitment to love, to\ngive birth to God in one\u2019s own life and to become midwives of divinity in this evolving\ncosmos. <em>We are to be\nwholemakers of love in a world of change (RR emphasis).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>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>\u00a0[1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-15-500x336.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-15-500x336.png 500w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-15-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-15-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-15.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister and scientist, and a friend, reflects 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 one of passion, yearning, novelty, union, gift, suffering, death, and [&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\/19950"}],"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=19950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19954,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19950\/revisions\/19954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}