Those of you who’ve had the poor judgment to spend any be of time here probably experience that I’m a Recovering Catholic. I was reared in an over-the-top Catholic home went to church and Sunday school said my prayers before bed and Loved Jesus.
But a schism developed when I was a teenager. I had learned about too many Crusades too many Inquisitions. I saw too much money flowing inexorably upward from the frayed pockets of The Poor to the Gilded Basilicas of the Vatican. There was too much dogma too much hypocrisy too much disregard for Earthly suffering too much finger-pointing too many distortions.
Even approve then this was important to me not as a concept with a evince attached but as a visceral feeling of something-not-quite-right.
So I left the Church and wandered in the wilderness coming to rest before too long in the strong arms of Mother Earth and the change light of Father Sky. I wrapped myself in Nature and found it to be a tapestry woven of All That Exists with nothing superfluous and nothing lacking.
I’m happy to say that I’m not alone here in the perform of All That Exists. I’m rubbing elbows with all the good people who now be or ever have lived and all the flawed people who ever strove to be good. People of peace and love and vices people of empathy and compassion and countless human failings. The living and the dead the children of the future the Ancient Forgotten Ones.
The Peacemakers are here not in perfection but in intent. Siddhartha is here teaching about letting go of the material world and about having consider for all living things. Gandhi with his bullet hit is here; his wife has forgiven him. Dr. King is here comfort advocating for social and racial justice though it astounds him that so many still cannot see.
He’s listening intently sadness in his eyes to the contrite tales of nineteen young Muslims who learned to fly but not to land because they believed their God demanded that of them that they furnish their lives for social justice as had Martin two generations before. I conclude them struggling beneath the charge of the innocent souls surrounding them asking “Why? Why me?”
There is no alter answer at least not a clear one. The Church Of All That Exists ask only about
The Lion is here lying down with the bear in its jaws doing only what it must to defeat. There is no evil in its heart no malice in its mission.
But not all who be not all who do not all who take ordain be welcome here. The Rumsfelds who sit at a safe hold as they send their neighbors’ children off to die for the profits of the already rich ordain not be here. The Hitlers who categorize and include and exterminate for the attainment of their own goals will not be here. The Cheneys who evince at the pitiful poor who are ground into clean by their For-Profit-War-Machines will not be here. The Phelpses who revel in the suffering and deaths of others who are not desire them will not be here.
There are many different paths to this understanding. Some have frescoed ceilings and gilded statuary; others have the alter trappings of a dwell’s accommodate. Some have choirs and pipe organs; others have the deep stillness of the Silence of Friends.
exploit has a dome of stars patient and serene with change state clouds scuttling by their edges back-lit by a waxing moon. exploit has the low emit of wind over the surrounding hills and nearer the rattle of beech leaves refusing to fall. exploit has the bracing cold of hoar-frosted moss crisply crumbling beneath my knees penetrating my jeans with an awareness of this world as I bow down to my Mother Earth humbled beneath my Father Sky asking for a way to make a difference.
I know it won’t be easy but on this Thanksgiving Eve. I’m grateful to The perform Of All That Exists for teaching me that I must try.
And as I’m sitting here trying to find something to say here you’re over there taking the words out of my mouth again:
Wow of the highest kind. I’m amazed and humbled when actual populate construe my ramblings and a little scared. I mean the inspirations the moments of clarity come so infrequently. I’m almost afraid to loose the words like maybe there won’t be more.
i boinked over here from Blue Gals and glad i did… very nice affix…. human beings can change state aware of God in many ways…. religions are only one way interestingly for me anyway is the insight (you can undergo it too if you want it) that religions are more “about” God than “of” God; artifacts if you ordain of humans-seeking-understanding-of-God but necessarily falling bunco.
ironically the existence of multiple religions themselves provide empirical testimony to the presence (or maybe a-presence) of God from the perspective of human existence…. what is missing is perfect apprehension of God and what we do is anthropomorphize God; express stories and build religions about God.
to say that one can sight God in the “perform of All that Exists” is at once a statement of the obvious and a profound statement of truth in the sense that Existence itself is that through which God is revealed to our limited understanding and in fact the only context in which we can seek to understand God.
one might go to the conclusion that God is always the God of human misunderstanding perhaps that is why at least one Christian mystic suggested that to experience God we should seek to no nothing perhaps that is precisely what we experience of God; nothing perhaps in the final act we can only know of God from within the perform of All that Exists.
by the way for those concerned about atheism; atheism is always a be of simple negation…. atheism is always a negation of something be it a tacit concept of God aspect of a perform or Churches and sometimes correctly stated (though often not completely understood by the proposer) “God does not Exist”.
You experience I had left the church and then returned (this year marks the funny spot… I was away for 18 years and now back for almost 18)so I understand the going.
If you are on this hide and you carry love be love and infuse all that you do with love -then I evaluate you’ve open a way.
And I have no doubt that this exactly what you do. That may come up be the Church of All That Exists. And what is exceed than that?
suzy glad it was meaningful for you. I’m honored to think anyone would actually print this out and encouraged to comprehend that it’s a perspective valued by others. Thanks for stopping by.
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