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Actions of Love, Actions of Compassion—God in History 03/24/2023 |
Yesterday we meditated on being, interbeing and compassion and how returning to
our Source and touching being leads to fruitful action from non-action. |
To recognize that God is compassion and that compassion is our godly work and our working out of our shared existence and
interdependence and interbeing is very important. It forms a substrate for all the work we do in our time on earth from earning a living to raising a family; from being friends to our family and friends to standing up | Presence and compassion. Image by Alice Popkorn on Flickr |
to injustice and lies and distortions within ourselves or our culture and its structures. If “compassion means justice” as Eckhart insists
(and the Jewish prophets of old insist), then to do justice in the midst of injustice is to bring the Divine back to history and culture. It is to bring love back since “God is love” and compassion is another word for love. And justice is another word for love. It is to bring God back, back into our consciousness and our work, back into history, it is part of what Pere Chenu calls therefore “continuous incarnation,” ongoing incarnation. It is God made flesh, made historical, made present. |
| That God is love is found in the first Epistle of John in the Christian Bible (1 Jn 4.16) and in many other places including in St Paul’s shout out: “Who shall separate us from the love of God? ….Neither death nor life, height nor depth, neither present nor future." (Romans 8:35, 38) Meister Eckhart says: “Love is nothing other than God….In the same love in which God loves the Godself, God loves all things.” God
as love is found in other traditions as well, such as in the Song of Songs in the |
Hebrew Bible and in the following teaching from Rumi who says: “All the universe is born of Love—But where did this Love come from?” And
again, “Lose your soul in God’s love, I swear there is no other way.” Love causes the earth to tremble.
God said, ‘If not by pure love
How
could I have created this world?
I have brought everything into existence,…
So you could know the glory of Love.’ |
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Adapted from Matthew Fox, Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God…Including the Unnameable God, p. 1. And Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart. Banner Image: Icon of Dorothy Day recognizing the Christ presence in a
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Queries for Contemplation Do you agree with Rumi that everything has been brought into existence “so that you (and all) could know the glory of Love”? |
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Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God
…Including the Unnameable God
Too often, notions of God have been used as a means to control and to promote a narrow worldview. In Naming the Unnameable, renowned theologian and author Matthew Fox ignites our imaginations by offering a colorful range of Divine Names gathered from scientists and poets and mystics past and present, inviting us to always begin where true spirituality begins:
from experience.
“This book is timely, important and admirably brief; it is also open ended—there are always more names to come, and none can exhaust God’s nature.” -Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, author of Science Set Free and The Presence of the Past | |
Meditations with Meister Eckhart: A
Centering Book
A centering book by Matthew Fox. This book of simple but rich meditations exemplifies the deep yet playful creation-centered spirituality of Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century Dominican preacher who was a mystic, prophet, feminist, activist, defender of the poor, and advocate of creation-centered spirituality, who was condemned shortly after he died.
“These
quiet presentations of spirituality are remarkable for their immediacy and clarity.” –Publishers Weekly. | |
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