"We want to love you, and we want to love one another. We want to receive your life from one another. we want to enter into the great adventure that is before us. We want to be a part of what you are doing."(R.Rohr "Radical Grace" p. 159)
I find one of the hardest things for people to do is to say what they are for. I get plenty of information about what people are against, but rarely anything that speaks of proactive positive response to the issues of life.
For me that is what it would mean to be being a part of what God is doing. Scripture tells us that with God everything is a yes. I take that to mean, not that everything is permissible, but that if something is truly of God or the will of God, it can only be framed in what something is for.
Where I have found the greatest connection with God, is in the working with and helping of others. The life most fully lived is one based in relationships rooted in love. Love of God, neighbor and self.
There are opportunities galore to see God in action. There are invitations to enter fully into that action. Will we respond to that invite? Will we open our hearts to receive the blessing that comes from service to others? Or will we spend our time talking about what's wrong with the world, blaming and shaming others, while doing nothing constructive. I know what I'll choose.
Blessings,
Ed
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