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One Love
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|  Posted 11/13/2008 9:41 AM (GMT -6) |   | I've been singing today...
I've been listening to different beats...and I'll just say this over and over again.
Lord, take my spirit.
and gimme Your Spirit.
Lord, take my spirit...
and gimme Your Spirit...
Just kinda over and over again...over any beat you choose.
It's been pretty cool.
I'm thinking it relates to my understanding of "Father, into Your hands, I commit my spirit." (Jesus giving himself to God to the uttermost...something, by grace, we can also do), and "Receive the Holy Spirit" (Jesus giving His Spirit to the uttermost...something, by grace, we can also experience)
Also, I remember a prayer my mother taught me when I first began to have the ability to do it...
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
So it's like...
"Empty me. And fill me with You."
Over and over. Over any music you choose.
See how it works?
It's interesting. Try it. 
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 11/13/2008 11:23 AM (GMT -6) | | One night I had a dream.
I dreamed I was walking along the beach with God
And across the sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two pairs of footprints in
The sand, one belonging to me and the other to God.
When the last scene of my life flashed before us,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at times along the path of life
there was only one set of footprints.
I noticed that it happened at the very lowest
and saddest times of my life. This really bothered
me and I questioned God about it. "God, you said
That once I decided to follow you, you would walk
With me all the way, but I noticed that during the
Most troublesome times in my life there is only one
Set of footprints. I don't understand why in times
When I needed you most, you would leave me."
The Great Heart replied. "My precious, precious child. I love
You and I would never, never leave you during your
Times of trials and suffering. When you see only one
Set of footprints it was then that I carried you."
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 11/13/2008 11:30 AM (GMT -6) | | Endokimov. The End of Chapter 2: "The Image and Likeness of God"
In the writings of all of the Fathers, we find a noticeable difference which St. John of Damascus describes: "'After His likeness' means likeness in virtue." The tradition is very explicit and ever strong: after the Fall, "the image" remained unchanged, but was reduced to ontological silence, ineffective because all capability of "likeness" to God had been destroyed, so "likeness" because radically inaccessible to man's natural powers. St. Gregory Palamas states this precisely: "In our being 'in the image' (of God) man is superior to the angels; but it is 'after the likeness' that he is inferior, because he is unstable." "After the Fall, we rejected the likeness, but we did not cease being, 'in the image.' " Christ restores power to human acts, re-establishes the likeness, which, in turn, liberates the image; and its radiance can be perceived in saints and children. St. Gregory of Nyssa gives us his anthropological kerygma (proclamation): a being is a human being only when moved by the Holy Spirit, then such a being is a "resembling image." The image is constituent and normative; it can never be lost or destroyed. In is function of conforming ot the divine, it makes these words come true: "You must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt 5:48). When "God will be all in all" (1 Cor 15:28), His human temples will be like the (P)resence that fills and animates them. The scriptural notion of "sonship" excludes any concept of legal adoption; Christology shows that in Christ, the sons and daughters are really similar to the Father. While God is beyond compare, the human heart, which only God can sound, contains--as St. Gregory of Nyssa states so well--something unique which can be compared: "something that makes one similar to God, for in order to share in God it is vital to possess in one's being something that corresponds to what is shared." To the statement "God is love" (1 Jn 4:16) corresponds the human being's Amo, ergo sum ("I love, therefore I am" ).
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 11/13/2008 12:06 PM (GMT -6) | | Got this email today. Figured I'd share...
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TWS 33rd Sunday Ordinary Time Year A Nov 16, 2008 Proverbs 31: 10-13,19-20,30-31 Psalm 128 1 Thes 5:1-6 Matt 25:14-30 The parable of the ‘Talents’ is one of the most contemplated pericope’s of Sacred Scripture. I would imagine in good measure because of its seeming ease of access to the “principle” or “teaching.” We know from Biblical scholarship that a “talent” was most likely the equivalent of a normal year’s wage. Now given the present global downturn in the markets, I wonder if the master’s reaction would have been different? I have also often wondered how the ‘parable’ would have played out if the first servant would have ‘lost’ the five talents with which he had been entrusted? Would the master have commended him for his risk? What does it all point to? What is the lesson or lessons of this pericope? Webster defines a parable as:”a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle” So what attitude or principle is to be found herein? I wonder if it isn’t the call of discipleship to be willing to risk sharing all that we have, even our very selves? It seems to me quite plausible that Jesus shares this parable with the disciples, in the context of Matthew’s Gospel, just prior to his arrest and trial, precisely because the reality of “fear” was going to confront them all intensely. I wonder if Jesus understood the human condition so well that he knew that ultimately what would hinder the growth of the world in faith would be fear! “Do not be afraid” is a mantra of Matthew’s Gospel and this parable might well once again illustrate the destructive power of fear. Maybe Jesus understood that a healthy fear is not a bad thing, but that when fear becomes debilitating, or is used as a tactic to elicit conformity, or is abused to maintain silence, it most certainly is always wrong. I believe as disciples we are called to be ‘fearless’ not ‘fearful’—to live with a healthy respect of fear but not to be intimidated, manipulated or abused by it or with it. ©Rev. Martin Shanahan 2008
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One Love
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| Posted 11/15/2008 6:39 AM (GMT -6) | | | Got inspired...me and my homies flowed to stuff like this for a WHILE last night. Good times.
Ay, ay, ay, ay...
Lord, take my spirit.
and gimme Your Spirit.
Lord, take my spirit...
and gimme Your Spirit...
I feel like dying...I feel like dying, Lord...
I feel like dying to all that that I am...
That You can raise me to new Life...yeah...
I feel like...I feel like...
I feel like dying, take me away.
Make me lighter than a feather, a Word that you say...
can make me me ghost like Casper. You're precious like jasper.
Take my mask, I mean Face-Off like Caster
Troy..boy, I mean I want to be destoyed...
My false self''s heavy on me, fallin' like an as-ter-oid...
from the heavens like Satan, steady baitin
me like a fish, but yo, there's no debatin'
I know that you will take my spirit in Your hand,
and lift it upwards into the Upper Stratosphere, another land...
that flows with Your beauty, Your Presence and your Light.
Just take me, Lord, I won't put up a fight.
And when I'm vanished, gone from my center...
And my soul is still, like a lake in the winter
Then send Your Mighty Spirit, rushing in..yeah, I mean this
I'll be Reborn in your Fire, just like a phoenix.
Yes...
yes....
yes...
Lord, take my spirit.
and gimme Your Spirit.
Lord, take my spirit...
and gimme Your Spirit...
I feel like dying...
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 11/15/2008 9:21 AM (GMT -6) | | | Another hot 16. Here we go...
Lord...
Jesus....
Lord...
Jesus...
Lord Jesus, you are the Alpha and Omega
Everything else is old and played out like Sega
I'm searching for you, exploring like I'm De la Vega
I'm falling on my knees all up in Yo' bodega...
Raise me on my feet, I will never see defeat...
I will always be replete...with Your Word. I won't delete...
any thing, any jot, any sentence, any tittle
I will keep it in my heart, and spit the truth without the spittle
I am little, you are Great, I am nothing, You are Weight.
I mean Glory straight heavy, but with You I levitate.
To the sky, rising altitude, up into the clouds, cause...
YOU...exalt the humble and YOU...lower the proud
And YOU...will say it loud. All Power's in Your Grasp.
Death tried to gas you up, steathy bite just like an asp.
But you took away the sting from death, and stole the victory.
You Took the beef away, and smoked it, like it's hickory.
Hickory...dickory dock, mouse up the clock
Tick to tha tock. Logos is tha Logic like Spock...now DOCK...
...in the bay of his Grace and his Mercy.
Get energized, then run like Jackie Joyner Kersey...
Get a jersey, get off the bench, get on tha team
He will clean you up, and sew you up just like a seam.
Balance on the beam, but no, this ain't no gymnastics...
But with God, we move and bend, just like we plastics...
what!
yeah...yeah...
hehe...
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
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One Love
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| Posted 11/15/2008 10:05 AM (GMT -6) | | |
The unitive life is the last stage of mystical ascent. The mystic becomes as closely united to God through God’s love as God is unified to his own being by nature. Mystically married to God, the mystic becomes “God by participation.” Nonetheless, this union remains differentiated, that is, God and the mystic become one while remaining distinctly two. The mystic’s person does not dissolve into God. In fact, the more deeply united to God the mystic becomes, the more the mystic’s individuality is confirmed and enhanced.
Mystical marriage bestows the conscious sharing in God’s own life and power and almost complete self-forgetfulness. The mystic now seeks only God’s will and honor and desires to serve God totally. Although external trials may continue, absolutely nothing can touch the peace and freedom at the deepest core of the mystic’s being. The transformed mystic desires greatly to suffer, but in no way does this suffering disturb the peace that flows from the ever present, explicit awareness of living God’s very own life. In fact, the only thing separating the mystic from the beatific vision is this life itself.
The mystic is experientially united to a love that communicates itself to all persons and to all things. Therefore, the more deeply the mystic experiences union with God, the more deeply union with God’s creation is experienced. Transformed by and into Love itself, the mystic becomes creative, totally self-giving, radically concerned about others—in short, spiritually fecund.
Hence, mystics heal in their own persons and through apostolic service the fragmentation found in so much of human life. They become an even deeper part of the great process of life. Wholly in God, yet totally in the world, they experience both absolute peace and a holy anxiety to serve God and God’s world.
The mystics insist, however, that the mystical life is more than heroic virtue or service to the world. These are the outward expressions of their union with God, the sacramental expression of their mystical lives. They are socially and often politically active because they seek God and God alone. Only this—not “experiences,” not a transformed personality, not serving the world—gives the mystical life its ultimate value.
Nonetheless, the mystics are the most impressive servants of humanity the world has ever seen. These deified, christified, spirit-filled persons are the amplifiers of every person’s more hidden life of faith, hope, and love. Their lives help us bear the interior whispers and see the faint flickers of divine truth and love in ourselves and others. The Christian mystics point the way to fully authentic human life by illustrating what it means to be a human being, what life means: eternal union (which begins here) with the God of love.
Harvey Egan, S.J.
An Anthology of Christian Mysticism
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