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Greetings
First off, I have no idea what the magnum Mysterium has in store.
I hope for the best, and expect all manner of good things.
But while listening to this Christmas Carol, I reflected on a PBS documentary titled from Jesus to the Christ.
I firmly believe that Jesus, even before his transformation into Christ a century or more later, was a unique embodiment of love, or wonderworker (taumaturgos) whose presence (without any other referent) transformed peoples lives, particularly broken peoples' lives, in ways that were both marvelous and unimaginable.
As physician friends Ed Myer and David Stoltze would say when I start to carry on like this: “But, what is the point of all this?!?”
The "point" is my persistent perplexity, as I look out on Yeshua's singularly unique embodiment of love, is how can "you" enter into that Love unless you more or less embody it already.
First off, I have no idea what the magnum Mysterium has in store.
I hope for the best, and expect all manner of good things.
But while listening to this Christmas Carol, I reflected on a PBS documentary titled from Jesus to the Christ.
I firmly believe that Jesus, even before his transformation into Christ a century or more later, was a unique embodiment of love, or wonderworker (taumaturgos) whose presence (without any other referent) transformed peoples lives, particularly broken peoples' lives, in ways that were both marvelous and unimaginable.
As physician friends Ed Myer and David Stoltze would say when I start to carry on like this: “But, what is the point of all this?!?”
The "point" is my persistent perplexity, as I look out on Yeshua's singularly unique embodiment of love, is how can "you" enter into that Love unless you more or less embody it already.
Otherwise, the likelihood of "bouncing off" Love impresses me as high.
How can we merge with what is alien to us, or -- perhaps more accurately -- what we have become?
And so we bounce off.
And so we bounce off.
In our fallen state, we look on - and not really recognizing the incandescence of what we see - we bounce off it.
The presence of Love is not enough.
We also want to be rewarded in another world.
We also want to be rewarded in another world.
Not "getting it," we want a consolation prize.
I too hope for a blissful other world, but it seems to me that "the point" should be that "virtue is its own reward just as "we are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them."
I too hope for a blissful other world, but it seems to me that "the point" should be that "virtue is its own reward just as "we are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them."
We are so accustomed to wanting to see what is not in front of us -- what is elsewhere -- that our wish comes true and we no longer see what is in front of us.
Love is real, and it is often here, and now.
But it takes two to tango, so if we don't see it when it's staring us in the face, we don't see because we have learned to crave the things that are not in front of our face.
And thus the goose chase begins.
Being distracted from incarnating love in the eternal now, we are distracted from loving by our desire, and often lost for a heavenly reward in the elsewhere.
Being distracted from incarnating love in the eternal now, we are distracted from loving by our desire, and often lost for a heavenly reward in the elsewhere.
"How Piety And Devotion-To-God Distract People From The Necessary Work Of Kindness"
Living As If God Is Love - Pope Francis And The Inviolable Wholeness Of Love... And Nothing Else. This Postulate May Not Be Objectively True, But If It Is Not True, What Other Bedrock Value-Choice Offers Greater Goodness?
It seems to me that, letting ourselves be distracted by the prospect of a heavenly reward is to let our left hand know what your right hand is doing, a behavioral pattern, which the unique embodiment of love warned against.
Any thoughts?
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