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.]
Whittuesday
May 29,
2007
Whittuesday
John 14: 23-31
The blossom opens itself to the cosmos. It streams forth
fragrance and the life substance of its pollen. It receives new life from the
realm of sun and air.
Our hearts
are like blossoms. They open, streaming forth heart’s warmth, the fragrance of
devotion, the light of our love. Through our hearts’ opening, the warmth and
life of the healing spirit can descend to us.
The Act of
Consecration is a mighty upward-streaming blaze – hearts burning together with
zeal and enthusiasm in grateful offering. It is in this burning ardor of many
souls that we rise together to the realm of the timeless, to the origin of
health and our true being.
The flames of
our hearts generate our existence in the realm beyond time. In this timeless
realm we enter into communion with Christ, the World Physician. From Him we
receive new life. From Him we receive comfort and understanding.
The truest wisdom, that to which we can aspire,
Is to be joined with God, to be with love on fire.[1]
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