Dear All of Us,
This week
let's give a
LISTEN
to
Meister Eckhart,
one of the greatest
minds and mystics
in all of Christendom.
He soul jolts.
He's always been
a bit much, though,
for the lads in
the front office at
Church Establishment Inc.
His supersonic jets zoom at
forty-five thousand feet
to their Piper Cubs
putzing along at
five thousand.
They can't keep up
with him.
Ain't it too often so?
That crowd are
the same flashlights
that tried to dim out
the beacons brilliant
- Copernicus, Galileo, Chardin,
democracy, evolution,
and their many cousins
positive charged.
Their miss is our find.
Meister Eckart helps us
find our way to simple, pure
"spirituality for the street."
For all his lofty erudition
and
mystical union
he says it simple full,
soul to soul:
"God only asks that you
get out of the way and
let God be God in you."
WOW!
"Take ten."
"Take ten tens!"
That's more than a mouthful.
That's soulful.
Way too many-much,
though,
we tell ourselves and
others tell us
different dangerous.
Our Ego
rigged out in pride
and
reeking of it.
Some sometimes:
Parents
Coaches
Teachers
Social circle
Religious leaders
Cultural expectations
Spiritual directors
Media moguls
Advertisers
Philosophers
Self Help gurus
Churchy sorts
Friends and family
and
Long leagues more.
We/They play God.
We/They insist
we be different
than we really are,
different than
God wants to be
in and through us.
We become
misfits
in our own
skin
soul
and in
Realm Real:
twitchy
shallow
merked up mad
compromised
restricted
off center
deluded
doubting
duped
pseudo someone
God denied direction.
"Not nice!"
God doesn't get
to shine through us.
We 're off the grid and
operating on cheap,
short-lived,
low power batteries.
We don't glow.
We don't go.
Others are shorted out
on how God wants
to transmit transforming
Divine Voltage
to them
through us.
It's all rather
devilish and delusional.
Again and again,
fuller and deeper
we do well to
LISTEN
as
Jesus
tells us true:
"I am the vine,
you are
the branches."
God
is
the energy
the life
that surges us into
being and fruitfulness,
yes, God's very own!.
We are not
self-sourced,
self-sustaining,
self-producing.
It's infinitely better when
God is being God in us.
When we fuss and foul that up
it's like a branch of the vine
pretending to be
a chicken hatching eggs.
Crazy
No God Good
God is
Passionate Love
that wants
to be us,
to be as Augustine says,
more intimate to us
than we are to ourselves.
to flourish in us,
to enrich through us.
God wants to be unique in us,
make us one of a kind,
to do what/where
only we can as
friend, lover, teacher, parent,
scientist, line worker, pastor,
artist, public servant, leader,
programmer, musician, roofer, cook,
salesperson, social worker, therapist and...
And to be and do that as our body type,
personality, temperament, sexual state,
coloration, ethnicity, social status, location,
spiritual type, religion, and...
So, let's
Soul Search
a bit.
Do we really trust God
to do a good job of
creating us
and
uniquely so,
radiating out that goodness
- that GODNESS-
to further
Creation
in
us
our neighborhood,
our zone,
our time and place?
Such a trust is called
FAITH
Or do we falter because
our ego and/or the crowd
around where we live
play God and demand a
DIFFERENT US
How scared or secure are we
about being unique?
Example:
I'm an off the chart,
(ok, off the wall)
sociable introvert.
Society's Classified Ads
don't call for such at all.
Sociable ok, no way introvert.
People puzzle, even diss,
"How can you be such a live wire,
outgoing, enthusiastic,
leader, preacher, teacher
and then head for
your cloister of quiet alone?"
Well, the key is
"THEO"
(GOD)
as in enthusiastic
to share God
to be quiet in God.
That's the way
God wants to be God in me.
It took a lot of grace
to come up with the courage
to be so when I was a boy,
and ever since -
both recognized
and shunned for it,
accepted and excluded for it.
Been like that all my life.
Sociable Introvert
Not many of us
out on the street.
God loves me just so.
I accept the love jut so.
I'm on the street God in me.
I'm cloistered God in me.
At times it's pretty lonely,
but then nothing beats
letting God
be this way
on the street.
in the cloister.
Wherever we are,
however we are,
God wants to be
US THERE
and
UNIQUE
"God only asks that
you get out of the way
and let Go be God in you."
God speaks us.
May we
LISTEN
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However God is in you,
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PLEASE
As a kid I was a paperboy,
The Newark Evening News.
That was back in 1951-3.
Had fifty or so customers
and you know,
I actually was happy
to get the news to them.
I would like to ask you
to do some such where you live.
This week would you deliver
frankly speaking
spirituality for the street
johnfrankshares.blogspot.com
to five or so family, friends,
folks at church, colleagues?
If you can, please share that
you find some value here
each week
- well most weeks anyway -
and you are inviting them
to try it out.
Your referral,
and for fellow the introverts
"courage,"
would be a big help
and much appreciated.
Thanks!
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Have a great week.
Praying that we all
"LISTEN UP"
Love to all,
John Frank
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