Wednesday, January 18, 2023

MYSTIC


Dear All of Us, 

No matter the length 

of our living,

what do we want to be

when we grow up?


       That's 

"THE QUESTION" 

of all questions.

Our answer, 

clarified and realized,

literally makes 

all the difference

in a lot of the world.


The question calls for

response again and again 

until there is no "when."


Most likely my little Grand Son, 

     Ollie the Younger,

will voice an ever evolving 

litany of life responses

as he matures into his years.

His grandpa sure has 

and still does,

even moving in on 

eighty-three of his years.


Whatever our being and doing

in the span of our time,

may Ollie, his grandpa, all of us,

grow into this lived response:

       When I grow up 

       I want to be a

           Mystic


Now, most likely that's not 

the wording of our way,

but pray may it be 

the living of our way. 


Mysticism is not 

being in a trance

and chanting 

"Ommmmm"

all day.


Mysticism is simply 

living the mystery of

    God's Love

  where we are, 

    as we are.

    Mysticism 

 is experiencing

    God's Love

deep in and real,

  as well as in

all the particulars of

our daily, evolving, 

life and consciousness.

It's not a cerebral achievement.

It's letting God fold us 

into a mystery beyond 

concept or articulation.

That mystery (thus "mystic") is  

The Love That Is God,

the Energy of All That Is.

The mystic is a lover

accepting unto to Oneness,

God being our Lover.

Mysticism takes us to 

      The Center

as we live its extensions

in the vastness of 

           ALL


Lovers get lost 

in the mystery of love.

It's constant.

Sometimes it's 

clear and conscious.

Always it's the energy

of their union and doings.

Some of it is in bed.

Most of it is lived 

in the practicalities of 

love actualizing daily 

potential and service

in unity.


Same so for the mystical life.

We're already loved by 

          Love 

We awaken to it,

we accept it,

we embrace it

over the times 

and ways and places 

of our life.

Mysticism happens as we do.


      

We all are invited 

over the next some days

to prayerfully personalize 

what follows.


We pray ponder:

     What's the inner meaning here?

     How am I with that?

     How can I be with that?

     What does all this mean

     in the living of my days,

     profoundly, progressively,

     practically, mystically?

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               MYSTICISM 


A mystic is simply one who has moved 

from mere belief or belonging systems 

to actual inner experience of God.


A mystic sees things in their wholeness,

connection, and union, not their particularity.

Mystics get the whole gestalt in one picture, 

beyond the sequential and 

separated way of things.


A Christian is one who can see Christ 

everywhere else and even in oneself. 


If you want to find God, 

then honor God within you, 

and you will always 

see Gid beyond you. 

For it is only God in you 

who knows where and how 

to look for God. 


Saints embody goodness 

while mystics embody love. 

- Carl McColman 


The mystic is not a 

special kind of person. 

Each person is 

a special kind of mystic. 

   William McNamara 


    This Soul Search is from 

Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation,

          The Center for 

   Action and Contemplation,

    Saturday, July 20, 2019

  We are blessed and grateful.


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The past weeks have been busy:

Hanukkah, Christmas, 

New Years and MLK Day,

three four-day work weeks, 

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on Wednesday,

January 11, 2023

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