Monday, August 3, 2009
Our Journey
To be is to be on a journey. We are familiar with the journeys to adulthood, to play, to school, to work, to worship, to weddings, to funerals, to vacation, to home. To be born is not to remain still, but to journey toward self-transcendence and union for the good of the Whole. To be born is to be an evolving member of an evolving Earth Community. We are interwoven with the unfolding journey-story of a sacred journey, of a sacred cosmogenesis. We are women, men and children of the 21st century part of a cosmic process. We are not finished; we are all becoming.
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A new look at Journey
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Joe
"We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night."
- Thomas Berry
We are Earthlings. Mother Earth feeds us spiritually, as well as physically. How do we cherish Mother Earth? Have we enjoyed a meal? What's on the menu today for "soul" food?
ReplyDeleteMy soul food was walking on the beach.
ReplyDeleteWhat feeds my soul is gazing at the moon and stars!
ReplyDeleteI care for my garden and it gives me a soul feast of smiling flowers.
ReplyDelete"Soul" food needs to be shared with our children, regularly.
ReplyDelete"If a child is to keep alive his inborn
sense of wonder...he needs the companion-
ship of at least one adult who can
share it, rediscovering with him the
joy, excitement and mystery of the
world we live in."
Rachel Carson
Philosophy, art, science and religion all serve the human community. Labor, hard work, child rearing, loving and crying all take placeon this wonderful and rare planet, we call earth.
ReplyDeleteWhatever our journey, we yearn for beauty.
ReplyDelete"Walk on a rainbow trail;
Walk on a trail of song,
and all about you will be beauty
There is a way out of every dark mist,
over a rainbow trail."
Navajo Song
Soul food for me comes from my Mother. It is wisdom in her words and example. She taught me love and to work hard. Be proud of who you are, not making excuses or feeling
ReplyDeleteless human because we did not have a lot of money. God will not pay your rent, but gives you the ability to do that. Love your children as a parent, not as just another friend or buddy. Sometimes you love by saying No.
Challenging Thoughts!
ReplyDeleteA human being is part of the whole called by us universe,
ReplyDeletea part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves,
our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest.
A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
--Albert Einstein
"The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?"
ReplyDelete— Marilynne Robinson (Gilead)
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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
ReplyDelete-Mother Teresa
Four quotes by the poet William Cowper:
ReplyDelete"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."
"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."
"God made the country, and man made the town."
"The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged."
A SHORT VIDEO CLIP OF Thomas Merton--click on the link:
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Dorthy Day understood the meaning of community. Here is a brief look at this remarkable human being:
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