Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Desiring God


Birth unconstrained by the biological past rooted in a cosmic future -- that is our heritage.  The dispossessed self, naked of ego, becomes a home for the indwelling God.  We enter the kingdom of God by losing our grasp of it. 

The new possibility is a grace, a resurrection.  Then we behold a desiring God at the heart of the world’s ecstasy reaching out in frenzied risky adventuring to the end of the earth in the craving of the flesh and the yearning of all beings.

God is a desire beyond desire that is never fulfilled, part of a widening, transfiguring movement beyond all opposition and obstacles.  The insurgent impulse of liberation, our small desires, our shaken upsets, our dismantling allows the desiring of God to erupt into our life.  God is the propeller and attracter of the heart, opening us to what is yet to come.

Retreat with Ivan Nicoletto, author of Journey of Faith, Journey of the Universe: The Lectionary and the New Cosmology