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John 14: 23-31
Jesus replied, “He who truly
loves me reveals my Spirit, and my Father will love him and we will come to him
and prepare with him a dwelling in the everlasting [an eternal dwelling]. He
who does not love me cannot reveal my Spirit. And the spirit power of the word
that you hear is not from me; it is the speaking of the Father who sent me.
I have said this to you while I am still with you.
But he who is called down, the health-bringing Spirit, whom the Father will
send in my name, he will teach you everything and will awaken within you all
that I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do
not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do
not be afraid [have no fear].
You have heard how I said to you, ‘I am going away,
and yet I am coming to you’. If you loved me you would rejoice because I am
going to the Father[ly Ground of the World], for the Father is mightier than I
am.
I have told you now, before it happens, so that
when it happens you may find trust. I no longer have much to say to you, for
soon the prince of this world is coming. Yet over me he has no power.
But the world shall see in this how I love the
Father [Ground of the World] and how I act in accordance with the Father’s
purpose, as it was entrusted to me. Arise, let us go on from here. [let us be
on our way.]
Whitsun III
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
John 14: 23-31
Coming back into our bodies from sleep, we experience the
lighting up of our consciousness. We become awake and aware of the things that
surround us. Sometimes we can even have
this experience during our waking hours—we suddenly become aware of something
that was perhaps always present, and our consciousness expands. Perhaps this
leads to our understanding things that seemed like puzzle pieces before—they
fall into place.
On the first Whitsun, the disciples experienced a great
expansion of awareness. They had been benighted by their grief over the loss of
their Beloved. But at Whitsun they wake up. The puzzle pieces fall into place.
They become aware of how Christ’s Spirit of Oneness surrounds them, surrounds
everything. They understand in retrospect how everything He does is immersed in
His love; how everything He does generates life; how everything He gives us
wants to increase the light of our awareness.
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The poet Antonio Machado said:
I love Jesus, who said to us:
heaven and earth will pass away.
When heaven and earth have passed
away,
my word will still remain.
What was your word, Jesus?
Love? Forgiveness? Affection?
All your words were
one word: Awaken.[1]
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[1]
Antonio Machado, (Translated by Robert Bly, in The Soul Is Here For Its Own
Joy,
