Dear All of Us,
"Go figure!"
And we sure do try!
Self-Identity
Relationships
Reality
Religion
Right and Wrong
Raising Kids
Life Changes
In-laws
Finances
Politics
(Good luck!)
Purpose
Values
Vocation
Work
Recreation
Our spiritual life
Lots of lots
all over the place.
It's a day in and
day out deal.
How do we
put it all together?
How does it all add up?
"Go Figure!'
The mystic,
Julian of Norwich, did.
She was shone and
shows that
it all adds up to
ONE
Actually and paradoxically
we start, stay, go, remain,
end up, always are,
always will be
VARIOUSLY ONE
For sure it's
a higher math
factoring endlessly
the dynamic of
Goodness
Goodness
is loving, outgoing,
giving, positive,
creative energy.
That energy
is what we call God.
God Goodness is
the base, the genesis,
the source,
the very presence
in which all that is is.
God Goodness radiates out
in form, manner, intensity,
dynamically and beyond count.
God Goodness is The Being
in which all being exists.
Come to find out
everyone, everything
is marvelously unique
in the shared
ONEING
that is God Goodness.
That One is busy
bursting forth in
uncountable, ecstatic,
beautiful ways -
Creation
us and all that "is"
rooted and emerging from it,
the most element pulsation
of energy to its most
complex configuration -
all
one in being,
varied in expression.
We're all
ONE
in unendingly
different ways.
PHEW!!
OK. Let's take
a deep breath.
ONEING
is
One in all
and
all in One.
It is God Goodness
in different ways.
At the core of all is
One
in expression
vastly varied.
A vital, fruitful apple tree
can be an icon for us
of this divine unity
variously expressed and present -
the oneness of rooted trunk
branching,
flowering forth,
fruitful in each unique apple.
Same one life/being
presenting variously.
Our spiritual life,
indeed, life itself,
is in large part
catching on how to
"Go figure"
the
God Goodness,
of all that is,
how to see
and live this
ONEING
It is active
contemplation.
Active contemplation
is letting God
show us around
and getting us in
on it all.
For us it starts in
our here and now
and never stops
in our everywhere
and always.
It's a given, not a gotten.
We just let go and let God
SHOW SHARE
THE PARTICULARS
OF
ONE
Our spiritual "practices"
are simply
relaxation exercises
to loosen us up so
God Goodness can
introduce us to ourselves,
and to our ourselves
in all the different ways
we are one with all that is,
getting us active
in the dynamic of
ONEING
in having a blast
Be-ing,
One
with/in all.
Julian words God:
"See that I am God.
See that I am in everything.
See that I do everything.
See that I have
never stopped
ordering my works,
nor ever shall, eternally.
See that I lead everything
on to the conclusion
I ordained for it
before time began,
by the same power, wisdom,
and love with which I made it.
How can anything be amiss?"
ONEING
So, when we feel that "other"
people, places,
energies, elements,
activities -
are strangers,
we realize it's
an estrangement
on our part.
We ask God Goodness
to warm us open,
to get us
ONEING
free us to
embrace
and
engage,
Oneness
in all its
delightfully
different ways.
Hey, as that aborns
we find ourselves
in love with All.
Julian of Norwich:
"The fulness of joy
is to behold God
in everything."
No chance then for
violating, waring,
for any kind of
us against them
because at core we are
ONE
Julian of Norwich:
"The love of God creates
in us such a oneing
that when it is truly seen,
no person can separate
themselves from another."
Everyone, everything
is family and more.
Everyone, everything
is a particular of One.
We are the same
in different ways
We're kin at core.
Thus, Godly Kin-Ness.
"Whatever you do to
the least of these
you do unto me."
Jesus
Matthew 25:40
Unfortunately, it takes
lots of time for lots of us
to grow up, to wake up to
who, how and what
we and all are, to our
ONEING
So we sin.
It's like cancer.
The body attacks itself.
Sin is the sickness of soul
trying to split our Oneness -
us and them,
haves and have nits,
preferred and rejected.
Fortunately, as Julian assures:
"The love of God is
hard and marvelous.
It cannot and will not
be broken because
of our sins."
As we see and embrace our
Oneness
we are free to fly.
Other things, other people
are the me I haven't met yet.
We don't have time to
grab, hoard, or hurt.
We reverence, we celebrate,
we delight, we care,
we love
ALL
because that's us.
We're freed to get
wildly carried away
making love with
every bit of existence.
We help, we give,
we receive, we share,
we create, we celebrate,
we enjoy, we rejoice,
we heal.
One and never done!
"...Thy kin-domain come
on earth as it is in heaven."
Jesus
That's our prayer.
That our life.
That's the wholly-ness of
ONEING
Delighted that
together we are
ONEING
John Frank
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ONEING
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