{"id":23334,"date":"2024-01-25T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=23334"},"modified":"2024-01-25T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:21:02","slug":"23334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=23334","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>The Unitive Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lauren Daigle ~ Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus (Lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5X85txs60yY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Richard Rohr expands on order-disorder-reorder as the pattern of resilience and faith:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Order by itself normally wants to eliminate any disorder and diversity. Disorder by itself closes us off from any primal union, meaning, and eventually even sanity in both people and systems. Reorder, or transformation of people and systems, happens when order and disorder are understood to work together.<\/strong> [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see this pattern in the Bible: (1) We start with group thinking; (2) we gradually move toward individuation through experiences of chosenness, failure, and grace; (3) then there is a breakthrough to unitive consciousness by the few who are led and walk fully through those first two stages. Consider Moses, David, many prophets, Job, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Paul, and Jesus himself. We could also describe it as (1) Simple Consciousness (Order), (2) Complex Consciousness (Disorder), and (3) Non-Dual Consciousness, or \u201cthe unitive way\u201d (Reorder).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unitive way\u2014or what I am calling Reorder\u2014is utterly mysterious and unknown to people in the first Order stage, and still rather scary and threatening to people in the second Disorder stage.&nbsp;<strong><em>If we are not trained in a trust of mystery and some degree of tolerance for ambiguity and suffering,&nbsp;<\/em>we will not proceed very far on the spiritual journey. In fact, we will often run back to Order when the going gets rough in Disorder.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus the biblical tradition, and Jesus in particular<strong>, praises faith more than love. Why? Because faith is that patience with mystery that allows us to negotiate the stages.<\/strong> As Gerald May (1940\u20132005) pointed out in&nbsp;<em>The Dark Night of the Soul<\/em>,<strong> it allows God to lead us through darkness\u2014where God knows and we don\u2019t. This is the only way to come to love!&nbsp;<em>Love is the true goal, but faith is the process of getting there, and hope is the willingness to live without resolution or closure.<\/em>&nbsp;They are indeed \u201cthe three things that last\u201d<\/strong> (1 Corinthians 13:13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Having faith doesn\u2019t have to do with being perfect. It has to do with staying in relationship, \u201changing in there,\u201d holding on to union as tightly as God holds on to us. It\u2019s not a matter of being correct but of being connected.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I once wrote in my journal while on retreat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>How good of you, God, to make truth a relationship instead of an idea. Now there is room between you and me for growth, for conversation, for exception, for the infinite understandings created by intimacy, for the possibility to give back and to give something to you\u2014as if I could give anything back to you. You offer the possibility to undo, to please, to apologize, to change, to surrender. There\u2019s room for stages and for suffering, for mutual passion and mutual pity. There\u2019s room for mutual everything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the genius of the biblical tradition. <strong>Jesus offers himself as \u201cway, truth, and life\u201d (John 14:6), and suddenly it has all become the sharing of our person instead of any fighting over ideas. 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