Weekly Pause & Ponder

God is …the ground and source of the world. God is not a being in whom we should believe, but the breath of life in every being that exists. God is not a possibility within reality, but reality itself. To say yes to God is simply to trust reality; it is to acknowledge that reality is good. This sounds simple, but it is not easy. It means affirming the basic trustworthiness of things in spite of all evidence to the contrary. Faith in God is nothing more or less than this.

Sallie McFague.  Life Abundant, p.127.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The mercy of God does not come and go, granted to some and refused to others.  Why? Because it is unconditional – always there, underlying everything. It is literally the force that holds everything in existence, the gravitational field in which we live and move and have our being.

Cynthia Bourgeault.  Mystical Hope, p. 25

Weekly Pause & Ponder

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.  What you need, is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by this present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

Thomas Merton.  www.google.ca

Weekly Pause & Ponder

What comes first in this world …is not “being” but “the union which produces this being.”… Reality is woven through layers of bondedness.  Cosmic life is intrinsically relational. Nothing is itself taken alone. Reality is “being with another,” in a way open to more union and more being I exist in order that I may give of myself, for it is in giving that I am myself. Cosmic life is intrinsically communal. Being is first a “we” before it can become an “I”….The universe is thoroughly relational and in the framework of love.

The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by Ilia Delio, p.45

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Evolutionary spirituality, though it comes in many colors, has a message much more suited for the life conditions of the modern and postmodern world: the evolution of this world is the goal of spiritual life. And by “world” I mean the manifest cosmos of time and space, both the interior and exterior realms – consciousness, culture, and cosmos. The action is here – in this time, in this place, in the possibilities that lie in the near and distant future of this culture, this world, this universe. Yes, there still may be spiritual transcendence of the most radical, sublime, and subtle forms, but transcendence is in the service of evolution, not the other way around.  And the difference is everything.

Evolutionaries by Carter Phipps