The world is created as a means of God’s self-revelation so that, like a mirror or footprint, it might lead us to love and praise the Creator. -- Sister Ilia Delio, theologian and scientist
I choose to see my rues, regrets and remorses, the little nits and welts I bring on me, as like nature bringing rain on a dry day...for they too are God's self-revelation.
Engagement with the other is not dissolving ourselves into the other but being true to ourselves—our identity—by finding ourselves in God and God in the other. . . . -- Sister Ilia Delio
There. To me, that explains not only why but how we have ceased fighting anything and anybody is our always solution.
A dynamic interior spirit must be at the heart of change. Change is not what happens outside us; rather, change must first take root within us. *** [We] are to seek the hidden God in our world by seeking the hidden God in our lives—living Christ by doing Christ. -- Sister Ilia Delio
That reminds me of a Sufi maxim: You are the mirror in which God sees himself.
Whoa and wow! Doesn't that impel a desire to live Christ by doing Christ?
And my ego Lucy inserts, "Desiring and doing are two entirely different things now aren't they?" I think Lucy lives just to keep me honest.
Thank you.
Whoa and wow! Doesn't that impel a desire to live Christ by doing Christ?
And my ego Lucy inserts, "Desiring and doing are two entirely different things now aren't they?" I think Lucy lives just to keep me honest.
Thank you.
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