Carried Across the Sky

Now Here Is Something Very Simple

Now here is something very simple.
I bear within me both the finite and the infinite.
I live in time and eternity.
I will die and I never will die.
I am in God and God is in me,
And this has always been so
And is so with everything and everyone.
Since God is One we are all one in God.

And here is something else that is very simple.
To see like this is to see with contemplative eyes.
The contemplative speaks the truth about God and God’s creation.
But not everyone sees the truth.
Even though we all are looking for the truth, it alludes us.
But this truth is not relative.
It is real truth.

We have yet to awaken to the truth, to live in this higher consciousness.
Pilate asks, “What is truth?”
The truth of the matter before him is that Jesus and he are one.
But Pilate cannot see that.
He is a victim of imperial thinking.
He is a victim of the real “fake news.”

Everything said that does not in some way flow from the truth of our oneness
Is ”fake news.”
We swirl around in fake news hurling judgment and condemnation
Trying to get the upper hand and maintain it.
Fake news is the lie on which empires come and go.
And what is imperial power but the lie of our separateness
Lived out on a grand scale with all the isms that give rise to empire:
Racism, sexism, militarism, consumerism, tribalism, and to all the ways
Some lord it over others.

And here is something else that is very simple to understand
But very hard to implement.
The contemplative vision is the Good News.
The Good News is the real news.
It is the news that gives birth to the Reign of God.
To envision us all as one is the bedrock of the Reign of God.
It is the beginning of wisdom.
Every single action founded in wisdom
Contributes to a just world and a peaceful world.
The simplicity of the Good News lies in a contemplative vision.
To get free of the cycle of fake news we need contemplative eyes.

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Welcome! The origin of the title to my blog space originates in this beautiful short passage from a Native American song: Sometimes I go about pitying myself While I am carried by The wind Across the Sky. Although I do not spend a great deal of time in self-pity, I know that I am being carried by the Wind (The Spirit of God) across the sky. There is a sense in this of great expanses, and with God the expanse stretches infinitely. There is also this sense for me that nothing, absolutely nothing, is excluded. All of us together are being carried into a future of oneness, of an experience of our unity, of our sisterhood and brotherhood in Christ. This is our heritage, this is our destiny. This future begins now in every action of loving kindness we perform. This is a conscious practice that begins in our own suffering. Our own pain, if it does not close our heart in bitterness and self-pity, can open our heart in compassion to the suffering of others. From time to time I will post new writings pertaining to a number of spiritual concerns. Most of these writings are the fruit of a daily practice of meditation, reading and reflection on the reading. Often whatever comes to mind. This is why I end up writing on one thing one day and another the next time around. I write about what is generating energy at the moment, and the writing flows. If I try and start with some vague idea and write about that, I end up in my head; and the writing is blocked. When I taught Freshman Seminar on the college level, which was essentially a writing/seminar course, I urged my students to simply start writing; don’t even wait for those so-called significant and wondrous thoughts to occur. Just exercise the muscle of free-flowing writing. It was very hard for them to actually do this. Things had to somehow be right the first time out of the gate. My own belief in all of this is that it is easier to go back and edit something that you have already written then it is to try and make perfect each thought before you put it down on paper. Once again, welcome.
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