Dear All of Us,
We want to be close in with
that one so special.
We itch to visit
that one particular place.
We know the one thing
we really want for dinner.
We can't wait to read
that one certain book.
We long to hear our one
most favored piece of music.
The Gravitational Pull Of
ONE
It
Draws Us Through
The Many And Good
To
Itself
So
Embrace your beloved.
Spend a month
on Martha's Vineyard.
Savor that linguini
with red sauce.
Get lost in Wendel Berry's
The Mad Farmer's Poems.
Soar in the uptake of
Handel's Messiah.
At first the many and good
seem to be
simply singular and secular.
But yielding deeply, reverently,
fully to them
The Gravitational Pull Of
ONE
Draws Us
Centers Us
Unites Us
In
ITSELF
The Source And Fullness
Of All That Is
THE ONE GOD
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Over the next few days let's
Pray Ponder,
a little at a time over
the sharings that follow.
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How do we let
"the many and the good"
draws us to
Oneness
God
rather than just
skim the surface of
shallow immediacy?
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DEEP DOWN
ONENESS
O Holy Spirit,
you are the mighty way
in which everything that
is in the heavens,
on the earth,
and under the earth,
is penetrated
with connectedness,
penetrated with relatedness."
Hildegard of Bingen
Medieval Mystic
Diffusely One
(pretty sexy spirituality!)
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No one, Nothing, Nowhere
Is
Stranger
Down Deep
Oneness
All
Connected
Related
ONE
What's that like
at the dinner table,
on a plane,
in the office,
driving,
around the neighborhood?
How can that be a
Holy Communion?
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"The church consists in the state
of communion of the whole world."
Augustine
A Sacred Oneness
Sure recasts "going to church."
How so?
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Happy to be
ONE
with you,
John Frank
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Never "One and done."
Always "One" more and more.
May all our ones add up to
The Divine One
See you next week.
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"The ego gets what it wants with words.
The soul finds what it needs in Silence."
Richard Rohr
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