Saturday, October 13, 2018

Dynamic Engagement


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Incarnation is an ongoing dynamic engagement of God loving creation into its divine potential. Every end is a new beginning.  Redemption and resurrection are dynamic infinitely intertwining processes that culminate in the person of Jesus the Christ. Revelation is the climax of creation, not a sidebar to a scientific reality devoid of any theological meaning.   

The world we hear about in the news is an unnatural world we have constructed, a without consciousness of the love or God who created it.  This is the world that is destined to annihilate itself.   

Christians are followers of the way into the fullness of life. Jesus came into the world to begin the evolution of a new consciousness.  In the world of Jesus people are of God's presence and that consciousness governs a way of being that gives life and sustains life.  Jesus offers a spontaneous response to God's presence and a deep sense of inner freedom.   

The martyrs risked all to witness to God's incarnate love active and alive in the world. The scandal of Christianity is that God really is part and parcel of our life, not something we can choose or decline to choose to believe.   

By accepting a dualistic view of life with mind in one place and matter in another, and by erecting intellectual boundaries between nature and divinity we put God in one box and humanity in another. These boundaries are false. They do not impede God, but they impede our ability to be conscious of God's love active in our lives and in the world.

Reflections from Ilia Delio retreat based on her new book  A Hunger for Wholeness: Soul, Space, and Transcendence.