This post is part of a synchroblog on the topic of ‘Manifestation of God’.
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This post is part of a synchroblog on the topic of ‘Manifestation of God’.
Wow, Beth, what a “mouthful” of bare bones, cut to the chase, truth of life you’ve mustered up here!!! I bow in humble honor of those reverberating processes of light and brilliance you paint with grace here and in real life.
Thanks, Dances–
The robustness is something I’m leaning into and find myself falling into those spaces, nauseous, and open…
It’s a trip, eh?
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Liked this blurt from KK Lifestream
“When flux is inhibited, slow death takes over…” Read the whole quote here:
http://www.kk.org/newrules/blog/2011/01/when-flux-is-inhibited.php#disqus_thread
Beth,
Good thoughts. I agree that robustness is a lot more than hardy. Maybe robustness is kind of more like heartiness… that hungh, hungh, hungh of fullness and ok-ness. I know that the world is ok, I am ok, even in the midst of the brokenness and not-yet-ness. I am full. As Rohr has mentioned, mature spirituality is knowing what you know and knowing what you don’t know.
Robustness involves quite a bit of honesty. It’s similar to the story of .
Hey Nate–thanks for the comment.
For those reading, please click on the almost imperceptible hyperlinked period at the end of Nate’s comment. It will take you to a great apocryphal story told by Anthony de Mello, posted on Nate’s site.
Happy pilgrimage to you, Nate–we’ll look forward to hearing whatever you can share when you return…
That’s funny… So much for trying to use html tags in my posting… serves me right. The name of the story is the Zen Master and the Christian, and indeed it cuts to the heart of the matter.
Beth, thanks for your willingness to connect. Mind if I provide a link to your site in my blogroll?
Blessing!
Are you kidding, Nate? Link away!
Thanks-
Beth,
As a concrete thinker, I am always challenged by your abstract thinking. This article was definitely an exercise for my brain – in a very good way. I feel connected to what you wrote because I have experienced some of those same things you mentioned, but the way you wrote about them is levels beyond the technical, detailed way that I would have tried (and not done so well). Thank you for the mental exercise! And for helping me bring clarity and abstractness (at the same time) to my own reflections.
Happy New Year!
Dear Donna–
It’s so great to ‘see’ you here! Thank you for your kind words–and your attention to detail and ‘concreteness’ is such a desired trait for me!
Let’s have lunch sometime soon–I’m working in Redmond now!
I heard you on the radio the other day. I would love to have lunch with you sometime. My schedule is tight right now between working and school (there is a family in there somewhere). But I would love to when we can.
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Beth. Thanks for your thoughts. When you said, “our attachment to how the world is supposed to be that keeps us from being engaged in what really is”, I had to step back and take a breath. I’ve been trying for years to figure out how to explain my beliefs and here it is on your blog and in one sentence.
Thanks ~ Mike
Hi Mike–
You had a similar epiphany to my own! Thank you for visiting and sharing your insight. I hope that this wisdom rings throughout your life–it’s an amazing ‘opening’.
Thanks again, Mike. I’ll be over to visit your blog.
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I love the paradox – to be free of the guilt over the state of the world creates the freedom to love and create and therefore, participate in its Healing. Thanks!
Thanks, Ellen–
I love that paradox too…more and more each day…
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Beth – I think I just had an epiphany as I was reading your post! I will certainly read this one more than once. Even though you didn’t originally write this one for the synchroblog it was a perfect fit and just the kind of thing I was hoping the theme would produce as the post itself is (imo) a manifestation of God.
Dear Liz–
Your response is so humbling–thank you! Glad it was a good response to your proposed theme–
I”ll be over to visit on your blog soon–I always learn from your posts!
Thank you–
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beth, thanks for this. your posts always make me think & the part i love about this one is the yet-again reminder of the gap between what is and what we think it should be and how much energy gets wasted on the “who knows?” when what’s right before us awaits. great stuff as always. thanks
Hi Kathy–
Yes, the amount of life-energy that gets used on worry and fret and speculation and even anticipation could fuel the sun.
Thanks for stopping by–really enjoyed your post as well, as always!
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