Day 23
All life is grace
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Photo credit: R. Wegener
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…
get up in the morning
and take nothing for granted.
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
Life is this simple:
we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent
and the divine is shining through it all the time.
God manifests Godself everywhere, in everything
—in people and in things and in nature and in events.
The only thing is we don’t see it.
I have no program for this seeing.
It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.
Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
The earth is alive, and all life is sacred.
We are part of the web of life,
and the web is holy.
Starhawk The Spiral Dance
Creation is not an event that happened in the past.
It is an ongoing event, and we are part of it.
The divine is present in every moment of creation,
inviting us to participate in the unfolding story of the universe.
Matthew Fox, Original Blessing
Everything is sacred,
and the whole world is a cathedral.
Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu
Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, smell your way
to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the last analysis all moments are key moments,
and life itself is grace.
Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
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People think of ourselves as separate, stand-alone, independent entities. We are autonomous; we operate on our own.
But let's reflect on our interdependence with the environment.
What is our relationship with air?
with water?
food?
livable temperature?
our safe surroundings?
How vulnerable are we to a loss of these?
What are we without them?
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How separate are we?