Weekly Pause & Ponder

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Resurrection… ushered in a new dimension of being, a new dimension of life in which, in a transformed way, matter too was integrated and through which a new world emerges. It is clear that this event is not just some miracle from the past, the occurrence of which could be ultimately a matter of indifference to us. It is a qualitative leap in the history of “evolution” and of life in general toward a new future life, toward a new world which, starting from Christ, already continuously permeates this world of ours, transforms it and draws it to itself.

Pope Benedict the XVl, quoted in The Emergent Christ by Ilia Delio, p.74.                 

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Jesus’ relatively short human life…both modelled and consecrated the eye of the needle that each one of us must personally pass through in order to accomplish “the one thing necessary” here, according to his teaching: to die to self….Our only truly essential human task here, Jesus teaches, is to grow beyond the survival instincts of the animal brain and egoic operating system into kenotic joy and generosity of full human personhood. His mission was to show us how to do this.

The Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeault, p.106.

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.