Dear All of Us,
Before we get started,
a few words about
the words that follow.
This week's posting
is about love making,
God and us
Divine Intimacy
It employs forthright,
real life love language.
It does that in the
unabashed manner,
freedom, spirit and joy of
The Judeo-Christian Scriptures
Medieval Christian Mystics
Sufi Mystics
Among so wonderfully more.
Explicit metaphors
to make explicit
the majesty of
Divine Coupling.
Explicit metaphors
to move us
to move in
with God.
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No matter how sincere, urgent,
passionate, well intentioned,
we just cannot make love
to someone
who is not there.
Fact of life.
Yet, that fact is missed
in a huge swath
of spiritual teaching and
leads millions upon millions
to spiritual frustration and
discouraged disengagement.
Sad such the spirituality
that fixes God in heaven,
us are on earth.
Distinction and distance
absolute
fixed in place.
Sure, it says that
God has good hearing and
God way up there in heaven
hears our prayers.
But God is still way up there
in heaven and we are
still stranded way down here,
earth bound.
We and God exchange
vibes varied
- revelation, prayer,
ritual, sacrament -
but still that
fixed, far apart,
distance and distinction.
No love making.
We just have to wait it out
til we are outed to heaven
to be bedded by God,
to be totally present
to each other.
In practice it's not actually
The Practice of
The Presence of God
so much as it is
The Practice of Patience
Until We Are Present
With God
In Heaven
Yet, that same,
far out spirituality
urges us to go ahead anyway
and give it a go at trying
to live out
The Practice of
The Presence of God
Frustration fraught!
Quite frankly, that's like
trying to have sex
on a Zoom Call.
No go!
Digital connection doesn't do it.
Neither does
God there
us here spirituality,
us spirituality slugging away trying
to picture, see, sense, achieve
a direct line connection to
God Intimacy
We just can't do it.
Wrong number.
"This call cannot be completed,"
nor can our embrace unto
ONENESS
until the celestial by and by.
It
"...misleads millions upon millions
to spiritual frustration and
discouraged disengagement."
RESET
absolutely necessary
we get into a
totally different mode,
get on a completely different
wavelength
The reset is that God is
Totality.
Unlimited.
God
is
BEING ITSELF
Anyone, Anything
that has being
does so
in
The Being
that is
God
Totality
Unlimited
Paradox for sure.
Potential even more for sure.
"In him we live and have our
BEING"
Acts 17:28
So does all Cration.
Speaking of Christ:
"...all things were created
by him and for him...and
"IN
him
ALL
things hold
TOGETHER."
Colossians 1:16-17
"Everything
comes from him.
Everything
happens through him.
Everything
ends up
IN HIM"
Romans 11: 36
The Message
All that "be's" is
"varied together"
in
The Ground of Our Being
GOD
Thank you, Martin Buber.
So, yes God is in heaven
and just as "yes"
God is everywhere
and everyhow else.
So, bring it on!
"God is love"
1 John 4:16
and we do
more than
interface!
We
"INTER"
as in
INTERCOURSE
- L. "inter" - between
- L. "currere" - flow, move
INTERCOURSE
as in course through,
as in flow through
each other
passionate
pulsating
It's free, full
Embrace
and
Enfoldment
Our reset is to
stop stressing
to reach God
and let God
choose how
to be
PRESENT
to us.
As we relax to
INTER
FLOWING
we
STREAM ONE
God is
"IN"
everything
and
occurrence.
We are
awash
in God
We don't have
to seek it,
It's ours
to wake to it,
to see and sense it,
to open wide to God
as God chooses
to be present to us.
As they say
in Sheboygan,
"Ya gotta be there!"
"BE"
THERE
because God
is already there
and just
plain passionately
wanting, waiting.
God is our environment.
God is our divine milieux
Thank you
Teilhard de Chardin
God is,
"being" present to us,
inviting us to
INTERENESS
to
COURSING
through each other
in the Love that is God
in who we are
in what we are
in how we are
in where we are
in what we are about
PRESENT TENSE AND PLACE
No need to wait it out
until the celestial
by and by.
We don't have to wait.
We don't have to relocate.
We just need to slow it down
to fall into God's Presence.
We just need to
let go,
open up,
to be enfolded
into God Present as
we fold the wash,
drive the car,
go to school
do our work,
drink our wine,
share sacraments
take a deep breath,
tell a joke,
sing a hymn
are patient with a pest,
worship
take a shower,
hold a baby,
grow a garden,
be a church,
steep in scripture,
seek The Common Good,
as we endeavor
"To act justly,
and to love mercy
and to walk humbly
with your God."
Micha 6:8
in prayerful contemplation
as we reverence and repair
the elements,
as we discover God present
through all we
see, hear,
taste, touch,
smell,
understand,
intuit, feel,
do.
It's like the sun
shining on us
into us
in all sorts of rays.
So what about all the dark,
dirty, rotten, painful stuff?
It is God Good fouled
by human sin and weakness.
It is God Energy twisted
hideous and destructive.
We are present with God
suffering through it all
to redemptive rightness
and freshness.
As Augustine said,
God is closer to us
than we are to ourselves.
That's pretty intimate.
We chill to the warmth of God
as our core and more.
So, we let God be God.
So, we let God do
the heavy lifting.
So, we let God "presence"
where and how God does -
the times, tones,
textures, touches.
So, we soften to let all
be the unique
God Presence it is.
So, we let God take the lead
in love making and thrill to it.
So, we allow surprise -
God draws us into Love
in the sensual to the spiritual -
a delicious Friday night pizza
to
contemplative joy
holding a baby.
So, God shows up in the
here and the now -
after all, that's the only
place and time we really have,
and the only place and time
where/when love making can be.
AH YES,
God
is present
in
ALL
right here,
right now
(even writing/reading this blog)
and we are invited
to the endless
Caresses
and completing
Enfoldment
of
divine
Love Making,
the
Real Deal
The Practice of the
Presence of God
PRESENT TENSE AND PLACE
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