The Kin-dom of Heaven has been here forever. We are invited into that Kin-dom by Mother Earth, who is the very body of God to us. The Kin-dom of Heaven is loving relationship that is forever. We are not building the Kin-dom of God, nor can we save the earth, civilization, or ourselves. Nearly all that we “build” is dead, toxic material that cannot be metabolized by the biosphere on timescales relevant to life on planet earth. We kill the living, intimately intertwined wealth of our biosphere and turn it into dead toxic waste and we call that wealth.
Salvation comes through savoring our one-ness with earth and sky. We are not here to save or to be saved, but rather to savor. We are here to love. We each get a little time here to love and to be beloved. Jesus taught and modeled this for us. We belong and we are beloved. Life includes a great deal of pain and suffering. Only love makes suffering bearable. We are here to love: nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
I believe this is what is happening IF we sink into it and live with awareness into Howard Thurman's 'being stripped bare'. We have a history of genocide and slavery in our national DNA, both in the service of greed, and the mindset that led to those things currently holds political control. That same greed sees the earth (and now space) as commodities for economic gain. This is what we need to see to heal. I think a lot of us are seeing this - painful but necessary. We don't go back, but forward from here and we grieve, tend to the victims and begin to work together to cocreate what comes next.
Perhaps instead of saying in the dark (so that we don’t equate that with something bad, in terms of dark bad, light good, ) we say we are in the place of un-knowing, unravelling, even the shadows.. so that as we wait for a new thing there is hope even in these places. I value so much your work. Blessings.
I believe that largely because of the climate catastrophe, that one way way or another and in short order, collapse is upon us.
The Kin-dom of Heaven has been here forever. We are invited into that Kin-dom by Mother Earth, who is the very body of God to us. The Kin-dom of Heaven is loving relationship that is forever. We are not building the Kin-dom of God, nor can we save the earth, civilization, or ourselves. Nearly all that we “build” is dead, toxic material that cannot be metabolized by the biosphere on timescales relevant to life on planet earth. We kill the living, intimately intertwined wealth of our biosphere and turn it into dead toxic waste and we call that wealth.
Salvation comes through savoring our one-ness with earth and sky. We are not here to save or to be saved, but rather to savor. We are here to love. We each get a little time here to love and to be beloved. Jesus taught and modeled this for us. We belong and we are beloved. Life includes a great deal of pain and suffering. Only love makes suffering bearable. We are here to love: nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
Is there a video/utube version of Cameron Trimble's talk with Matthew Fox? I missed it yesterday.
You can watch it by logging into the course here: https://convergencecolab.org/p/darkness-to-dawn
I believe this is what is happening IF we sink into it and live with awareness into Howard Thurman's 'being stripped bare'. We have a history of genocide and slavery in our national DNA, both in the service of greed, and the mindset that led to those things currently holds political control. That same greed sees the earth (and now space) as commodities for economic gain. This is what we need to see to heal. I think a lot of us are seeing this - painful but necessary. We don't go back, but forward from here and we grieve, tend to the victims and begin to work together to cocreate what comes next.
Thank you for your clear thinking and writing.
Perhaps instead of saying in the dark (so that we don’t equate that with something bad, in terms of dark bad, light good, ) we say we are in the place of un-knowing, unravelling, even the shadows.. so that as we wait for a new thing there is hope even in these places. I value so much your work. Blessings.
Yes. We let go of understanding, knowing, and being right and wait in the still nothingness of ourselves.