Pentecost
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.]
Whituesday III
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| Raphael |
June 10, 2014
John 14: 23 – 31
When God created the world, his living spirit of love
created an order to the world and purpose, a plan for us. This plan involves
our learning to love; learning to choose to love others and the world through
our won free choice. Eventually the Father sent his eternal Son, his Creating
One, to the earth. Christ came as a human being in order to teach and to heal.
Ultimately he also came to suffer, to die and to rise to life again.
He demonstrates how we are to live. We are to live in peace;
we are to live without fear; for only so can we learn to love.
Aligning ourselves with Christ allows the Father’s
all-encompassing love and his plan for us to live and work in us’ working in us
it is the healing, holy spirit. The healing spirit brings us the warmth of compassion,
the light of understanding. It brings us the light of an awareness that we are
all sons and daughters of God. We all, like Christ, are spiritual beings having
a human experience. We are all human beings learning to love, to live, to be
aware of the divine in everything. This is the healing spirit, the truth that
embraces all.
May we in our human state grasp the healing spirit, the
spirit of love, the spirit of understanding the shining, living truth. For as
David Whyte says:
….You were there in the beginning
you heard the story, you heard
the merciless
and tender words telling you
where you had to go.
Exile is never easy and the
journey
itself leaves a bitter taste.
But then,
when you heard that voice, you
had to go.
You couldn't sit by the fire,
you couldn't live
so close to the live flame of
that compassion
you had to go out in the world
and make it your own
so you could come back with
that flame in your voice, saying
listen...
this warmth, this unbearable
light, this fearful love...
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