| Today we will enter into the last section of "Life's New Spirituality" in "The Source of Life" by Jurgen Moltmann. It is called New sensuousness. True spirituality is the rebirth of the full and undivided love of life. The total Yes to life and the unhindered love of everything living are the first experiences of the Holy Spirit. That is why from earliest times Yahweh's ruach hs been called the source or well of life (fons vitae). The Spirit is the breath that begins what we would call life. It is the motion. It is the action that takes place wherever there is life. It is what happens between us when our lives are whipped up and placed in the midst of others. The Holy Spirit is not merely a Spirit that comes to some who claim to be 'religious.' How stifling that would be! Rather it is the wind of life that is pull and pushing us all even when we do not want anything to do with religion and all of its sporting adventures. We can step back from religious movements, but this well of life keeps invading our lives with a tickle that attempts to bring us to the wholeness of all things. Life in its fullness is life for all - available and waiting to be entered. It is life in which the barriers come down and the fear is turned aside by dialogue and - the love that dismantles separation. That Spirit I would call Holy is moving among us all - not more on one than another - but always in full force. Sometimes, some of us just like to name it when we know we have been pulled beyond ourselves. Connection: Rather than seeing the 'other' as 'other,' it would be a real trip within God's Reign to see as another one of us. Not distant - not enemy - but part of the cosmic family that knows no end. |
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