Dear All of Us,
Bothered Bob says:
"I'm feeling way, way off center today."
Wise William says:
OK, just don't drive or go to work,
especially if you are a brain surgeon,
airline pilot, or Middle School teacher!
Imagine a soccer team.
The goalie plans to also
take over center.
That team has lost
before they take the field.
Widen the frame.
If we claim center stage in life,
if we appoint ourselves
the center of what's going on,
life spirals out of control.
It's hell before death and
we make it that way for others.
In all Reality
we "are" because
we are centered
in
The Center
of all that is.
We are
participants
in
Existence
Reality
Life
and we call that
GOD
The Still Point
and
Center
and
Fullness
of all that is
Things go crazy,
they just completely
go to hell,
when we want life
to spin around us -
our wants, desires,
wills and ways.
Richard Rohr
sets us straight,
"My life is not about me.
I am about Life."
Life goes wonderfully well
when we are completely
centered
in the energy core of
All Reality
of
Life
God Good
All we are and all we do then
are in the sweep of
The Divine Dynamic
of
God's
Presence
Limitless Realness
and
Goodness
Ongoing Creation
Redemption
Our focus, points of reference,
thrust, efforts, our energies,
our finances and lifestyle,
delights, evaluations, interests
are then focused to freely furthering
Life
God Good Actuality
across the span of
Existence
where and as we are.
From the time we get up
until the time we go to bed
we are rays of the creative
Energy Source.
We don't pretend to be it.
We welcome it
to flow through us.
We don't try to isolate it
around ourselves.
So,
We drive cooperatively,
not aggressively.
We apply our gifts and talents to
The Common Good
rather than spinning out of control
in selfish absorption and acquisition.
We spend ourselves for others
in every opening before us
from having kids
to caring for poor
or infirm relatives,
to helping settle immigrants
to doing the dishes
when it's not our turn.
We give priority to time for
reflection and prayer,
for being
Centered in the Center
We have a trusted spiritual friend
hold us accountable
to being centered in the true
CENTER
In every instance we joyously join
the evolution, the furtherance
of God's Goodness right here -
a smile, a favor, a courtesy,
deference to needs of others,
forgiving, cheering,
encouraging, cooperating,
flexing plans to accommodate.
We look to give and enhance,
not clutch and cling
in off centered isolation.
Revelation shares that
"God is love."
That's what
God is and is all about.
That's where we come from.
That's also what life is all about.
That's what we are invited to be,
beautifully so and forever,
all about life,
radiating Love from the
CENTER
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Each week we have visitors
from all over.
Sometimes it's Singapore,
- and did we ever have
an extensive showing
this week from Singapore -
Ireland, Russia, The Netherlands,
England, Slovakia, Poland,
Germany, USA and happily more.
From wherever you come you are
WELCOME
and do come and stay.
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Here's to being all about Life,
living from the Center.
See you next week.
Love to all.
John Frank
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