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When we say God is eternal, we mean God is eternally young.
“The outward person is the old person, the earthly person, the person of this world, who grows old from ‘from day to day.’ His end is death… The inward person is not at all in time or place but is purely and simply in eternity. It is there that God arises… [and] is heard, there God is; there God, and God alone, speaks.”
– Meister Eckhart quoted in Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) broaden the scope of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) which were established at the turn of the century with the goal to help developing countries reduce extreme poverty and hunger, prevent deadly diseases and expand primary education to all children by 2015. By 2013 many goals had noticeably been achieved such as combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis and improving maternal and child health. However progress towards the MDGs was uneven and some were not able to be realized. Further action and global commitment was required!
Seventy-four years ago on October 24 the United Nations established its founding charter. To mark this day, we have to think big, to think globally to all that has been achieved by this global effort to work for peach, justice and humanity. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, states the importance of this institution, “UN Day highlights the enduring values of the Charter, which entered into force on Oct 24, 74 years ago…Amid stormy global seas the Charter remains our shared moral anchor.”
Recently at Villa St. Joseph we held our annual Harvest Barbecue for the gardeners of our Organic Community Gardens. We supply the burgers & hotdogs, they all bring something from their garden plot for the feast.
We are reaching a fork in the road; two paths are diverging on planet Earth and the one we choose will make all the difference for the life of the planet. Shall we continue our practices... and undergo extinction? Or shall we wake up to this dynamic, evolutionary universe and the rise of consciousness toward an integral wholeness?
Ilia Delio, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love (Orbis Books: 2013), xxii-xxiii.
