The domain of Holy fools who listen and talk to God in the now. The mystic, takes a constant mingle with the divine and thus becomes ever-more human in solidarity with all. It’s all about awareness of the potential for heaven on earth in the present . This is the ultimate mystical vision, intensely practical and requiring affirmative action. It’s a doing thing! Not just a vision thing.
Spiritual illness or brokenness is all pervasive in our world, and it was ever thus. To a large degree, this goes unchallenged and most often undetected. Its symptoms, in my experience, ultimately boil down to the self-centered ego in its multiple manifestations, going on the rampage. Inspired by the killer line, “broken people heal broken […]
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Inspired by the tweet of a friend on the wild and woolly twitter land a couple of days ago, I added some text: The desire for perfection, the not just let’s get it right, but let’s make it perfect and adored by endless numbers of, you know, “likes,” “loves,” and “follows,” is an ongoing insidious
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I recently wept, as I listened to song on YouTube. This is not an entirely unknown phenomenon for this old mystic. Actually, while walking the walk with Living God during the last twenty-five years, it has become more like a regular occurrence. The song in question was a cover of a Dylan classic called, “Not
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I recall one of my theology professors using the phrase “already, but not yet,” to explain the concept of the kingdom of heaven on earth. For Christians this has already arrived in one important sense with the deep incarnation of the Christ.1 The God with skin on man from Galilee was all about the incoming
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