Mins,
“The
things that will always be.”
I am sure that is how it
looks from the other side of things. I get your point about unity and I am not
at all against the idea that we should seek peace when we can with others. It is
just very hard to do so. I have a tendency to switch off that I am quite sure
is not godly. It is how I defend myself against the crushing indifference of
others.
There is something contrary
about love as told to us by God. It does not run along the same lines as we
imagine as the feeling of love or the acts of being loving. We think of love as
narrowing our circle, building a home and making it easier to shut out the
muddy world. He presents love as widening the circle of concern, making the
community a home and opening up your heart to one person as the first step in
opening up to one billion. And then on and on. There is no secret church. There
is no inner circle of truth. There are no barriers between what is human
seeking the divine so there cannot be barriers between all seekers sharing the
warmth of true communion.
I am saying this with a
certain pained expression of you being absolutely right. There is this fear
that if we are open the wolves will come. Sometimes we forget that fear makes
us into wolves. We also forget that the spirit of fear should not control us. The
spirit of love, courage and a sound mind should lead us. Love puts our heart in
the right place, courage makes us face danger with a sense of the eternal
weight of things and glory and a sound mind gives us judgment so we do not fall
for everything but only the things that matter.
There is no need to be too
neat. We were made to get a little dirty and then a lot dirtier than that. We need
the living waters to come cleaning every day. We cannot hide from the filth of
the world. We have to face it and speak to the things in us and in others still
caught up in that temporal trap. Once we accept the love of God all bets are
off. We cannot hide it under a bushel anymore. We have to let it out. It is
scary what this will do to the well planned out and safe life but it is joyous
what it will lead us to, that glorious life of the things that will always be.
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