Comments on: Crisis Brings Clarity http://www.thesoulpurpose.net/archives/2008/01/crisis-brings-clarity.php Living From The Inside Out Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:26:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: practicalmystic http://www.thesoulpurpose.net/archives/2008/01/crisis-brings-clarity.php/comment-page-1#comment-222 practicalmystic Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:12:25 +0000 http://www.thesoulpurpose.net/archives/2008/01/crisis-brings-clarity.php#comment-222 The concept of "God becoming stuff" is helpful. This was a mantra on Riuchard Rohr's website a few weeks ago: "God is not a Being, God is Being itself." It has helped me to see material things as part of God's blessings, to see them as servants of God's working in my own small sphere of influence. Remeber the time in our lives when we rejected all things material as an enemy ot a spirit directed life? It's a subtle but helpful difference to see the material things around us as servants of God breathing through us rather than as enemies to be rejected. The concept of “God becoming stuff” is helpful. This was a mantra on Riuchard Rohr’s website a few weeks ago: “God is not a Being, God is Being itself.” It has helped me to see material things as part of God’s blessings, to see them as servants of God’s working in my own small sphere of influence. Remeber the time in our lives when we rejected all things material as an enemy ot a spirit directed life? It’s a subtle but helpful difference to see the material things around us as servants of God breathing through us rather than as enemies to be rejected.

]]> By: Jim Shelton http://www.thesoulpurpose.net/archives/2008/01/crisis-brings-clarity.php/comment-page-1#comment-221 Jim Shelton Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:39:39 +0000 http://www.thesoulpurpose.net/archives/2008/01/crisis-brings-clarity.php#comment-221 "The breath of God is only one of the divine gifts that make us living souls; the other is dust. Most of our modern troubles come from our misunderstanding and misevaluation of this dust." - Wendell Berry, SEX, ECONOMY, FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY. Quoted in the chapter "Household Economics" in PRACTICING OUR FAITH, Dorothy C. Bass, ed. (A good thought for Ash Wednesday.) In the margin I wrote someone's comment: "Incarnation--God become stuff; Materialism--stuff becomes God. “The breath of God is only one of the divine gifts that make us living souls; the other is dust. Most of our modern troubles come from our misunderstanding and misevaluation of this dust.” – Wendell Berry, SEX, ECONOMY, FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY. Quoted in the chapter “Household Economics” in PRACTICING OUR FAITH, Dorothy C. Bass, ed. (A good thought for Ash Wednesday.)

In the margin I wrote someone’s comment: “Incarnation–God become stuff; Materialism–stuff becomes God.

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