{"id":22623,"date":"2023-07-12T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22623"},"modified":"2023-07-12T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:26:46","slug":"22623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22623","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z36ifo5PYwE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\nDarkness into light\nLight leads<\/a> into life\nLife breathed<\/a> into man\nAnd to man He gave a wife\nBut not a savior<\/a> 'til\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\n\nEvil turned<\/a> to rain\nThe rain became<\/a> a flood\nFlood became<\/a> a promise\nIn the colors<\/a> up above\nFor a savior<\/a> when\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\n\nFrom suffering<\/a> and death<\/a> came resurrection\nHis own sacrifice<\/a> to my salvation\nLife on Earth<\/a> gives way to life eternal\nSo we sing hallelujah\n\nVirgin to a mom\nA babe became<\/a> the Christ\nChrist became<\/a> the King\nOf my heart<\/a> and of my life\nHe's my Savior<\/a> 'cause\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\n\nThe lame began<\/a> to walk\nThe blind<\/a> began to see\nLazarus is alive<\/a> and\nJesus lives<\/a> inside of me\nAs my Savior<\/a> since\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\n\nFrom suffering<\/a> and death<\/a> came resurrection\nHis own sacrifice<\/a> to my salvation\nLife on Earth<\/a> gives way to life eternal\nSo we sing hallelujah\n\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\n\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\n\nWater turned<\/a> to wine\nWine becomes<\/a> the blood\nBlood poured<\/a> out for me\nAnd now I am in love\n\nWater turned<\/a> to wine\nWine becomes<\/a> the blood\nBlood poured<\/a> out for me\nAnd now I am in love\n\nWith my Savior<\/a> 'cause\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross\nI'm in love with my Savior<\/a> 'cause\nA cross<\/a> became The Cross<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
God Is Found in All Things<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Father Richard finds the foundation for his teaching that everything belongs in the crucifixion itself: <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cross is a perfect metaphor for what we mean by \u201ceverything belongs.\u201d The rational, calculating mind can never fully understand the mystery of the cross.<\/strong> These insights can only be discovered through contemplative seeing: God is to be found in all things<\/em>, even and most especially in the painful, tragic, and sinful things, exactly where we do not want to look for God. <\/strong>The crucifixion of the God-Human is at the same moment the worst and best thing in human history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Human existence is neither perfectly consistent, nor is it incoherent chaos. Instead, life has a cruciform pattern<\/strong><\/em>. All of life is a \u201ccoincidence of opposites\u201d (St. Bonaventure), a collision of cross-purposes. We are all filled with contradictions needing to be reconciled. <\/strong>This is the precise burden and tug of all human existence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The price that we pay for holding together these opposites is invariably some form of \u201ccrucifixion.\u201d Jesus himself was archetypally hung between a good thief and a bad thief, between heaven and earth, holding together both his humanity and his divinity, a male body with a feminine soul. He was a Jewish believer who forgave and loved everyone else. He \u201creconciled all things in himself\u201d (Ephesians 2:14\u201316). Jesus really is an icon of what Carl Jung called the holy and whole-making spirit<\/em>. [1] <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The demand for the perfect is the enemy of the possible good<\/strong>.<\/em> Be <\/em>peace and do <\/em>justice, but let\u2019s not expect perfection in ourselves or the world. Perfectionism contributes to intolerance and judgmentalism and makes ordinary love largely impossible.<\/strong> Jesus was an absolute realist, patient with the ordinary, the broken, the weak, and those who failed. Following him is not a \u201csalvation scheme\u201d or a means of creating some ideal social order as much as it is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world, and to love the way that God loves\u2014which we cannot do by ourselves.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The doctrine, folly, and image of the cross is the great clarifier and truth-speaker for all human history. We can rightly speak of being \u201csaved\u201d by it. Jesus crucified and resurrected is the whole pattern revealed, named, effected, and promised<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>Jesus did not come to found a separate or new religion as much as he came to present a universal message of vulnerability and foundational unity that is necessary for all religions, the human soul, and history itself to survive.<\/strong> Thus, Christians can rightly call Jesus \u201cthe savior of the world\u201d (John 4:42), but no longer in the competitive and imperialistic way that they have usually presented him. By very definition, vulnerability and unity do not compete or dominate. The cosmic Christ is no threat to anything but separateness, illusion, domination, and the imperial ego<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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[54] Christ\u2019s Disregards <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lord cared neither for isolated truth nor for orphaned deed. It was truth in the inward parts, it was the good heart, the mother of good deeds, He cherished\u2026. It was good men He cared about, not notions of good things, or even good actions, save as the outcome of life, save as the bodies in which the primary live actions of love and will in the soul took shape and came forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lewis, C. S.. George MacDonald (pp. 29-30). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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