Saying 49
Jesus said: Blessed are the single ones and the chosen ones, for you will find the Kingdom. Because you emerged from it you will return to it.
Jacob was a man (single) renamed Israel which became the name of one nation (chosen).
I am a small part (single) of a great whole (chosen).
I am aligned with, guided and protected by a loving Power; I can only have that experience within a whole that is surrendered to the same purpose of love and service.
The apostles were individuals chosen to be part of the twelve.
The Biblical genealogies are lengthy and detailed. Each individual is named yet part of a whole: we are single and chosen, part of the whole.
Jesus said: Blessed are the single ones and the chosen ones, for you will find the Kingdom. Because you emerged from it you will return to it.
Jacob was a man (single) renamed Israel which became the name of one nation (chosen).
I am a small part (single) of a great whole (chosen).
I am aligned with, guided and protected by a loving Power; I can only have that experience within a whole that is surrendered to the same purpose of love and service.
The apostles were individuals chosen to be part of the twelve.
The Biblical genealogies are lengthy and detailed. Each individual is named yet part of a whole: we are single and chosen, part of the whole.
Saying 50
Jesus said:
If they ask you, "Where are you from?" reply to them, "We have come from the place where light is produced from itself. It came and revealed itself in their image."
If they ask you, "Are you it?" reply to them, "We are his Sons. We are chosen ones of the living Father."
If they ask you, "What is the sign within you of the Father?" reply to them, "It is movement. It is rest."
Question 1: Where are you from?
In Genesis we experience God as the Creator of Light. Jesus then says "I am the light of the world" which signals a new light since the sun is still shining and has been since the "original goodness" of creation. God created light, just as God created Jesus.
In the 12 Steps "design for living," we are born out of the light of our sponsor's experience, of the process. Light is produced from light.
Question 2: Are you it?
Jesus is asking us to claim our identity in the second question as "chosen ones of the living Father." Claim that truth. Claim that identity. Those being asked are also those learning the truths they are to pass forward. "All women of faith have courage." (BB pg. 68) It takes courage to deal myself in.
Questions 3: What is the sign within you of the Father?
"It is movement. It is rest." No easy "behavior management" solutions. The two are within the same being just as quanta have two simultaneously occurring contradictory identities, a specific point in space/time and energy in motion.
Jesus said:
If they ask you, "Where are you from?" reply to them, "We have come from the place where light is produced from itself. It came and revealed itself in their image."
If they ask you, "Are you it?" reply to them, "We are his Sons. We are chosen ones of the living Father."
If they ask you, "What is the sign within you of the Father?" reply to them, "It is movement. It is rest."
Question 1: Where are you from?
In Genesis we experience God as the Creator of Light. Jesus then says "I am the light of the world" which signals a new light since the sun is still shining and has been since the "original goodness" of creation. God created light, just as God created Jesus.
In the 12 Steps "design for living," we are born out of the light of our sponsor's experience, of the process. Light is produced from light.
Question 2: Are you it?
Jesus is asking us to claim our identity in the second question as "chosen ones of the living Father." Claim that truth. Claim that identity. Those being asked are also those learning the truths they are to pass forward. "All women of faith have courage." (BB pg. 68) It takes courage to deal myself in.
Questions 3: What is the sign within you of the Father?
"It is movement. It is rest." No easy "behavior management" solutions. The two are within the same being just as quanta have two simultaneously occurring contradictory identities, a specific point in space/time and energy in motion.
Saying 51
His disciples asked him: When will the dead rest? When will the new world arrive? He replied: That which you are waiting for has come, but you don't recognize it.
When we sing in a choir, we experience a beautiful unity that is always the truth, yet unrecognized as Jesus says. Drinking used to make me feel part of the whole. Now I experience myself as part of a whole in many ways. It's all about consciousness.
At this second, my pride is stinging from a small pettiness that came out with my daughter. I feel busted. Yet, too, I know I am here with her in the kitchen as she cleans; I pause to remember a minuscule fraction of all the circumstances, the divine choreography, that has led the two of us to be here.... all the way from Ethiopia, all the way from the dawn of Creation.
Me, as an unaware person, is slowly dying through the Steps, through daily surrender. The new world constantly comes into view and slips away, too. Jesus is right. I don't recognize it, so distracted am I by my many-more-than-five senses, my emotions.
His disciples asked him: When will the dead rest? When will the new world arrive? He replied: That which you are waiting for has come, but you don't recognize it.
When we sing in a choir, we experience a beautiful unity that is always the truth, yet unrecognized as Jesus says. Drinking used to make me feel part of the whole. Now I experience myself as part of a whole in many ways. It's all about consciousness.
At this second, my pride is stinging from a small pettiness that came out with my daughter. I feel busted. Yet, too, I know I am here with her in the kitchen as she cleans; I pause to remember a minuscule fraction of all the circumstances, the divine choreography, that has led the two of us to be here.... all the way from Ethiopia, all the way from the dawn of Creation.
Me, as an unaware person, is slowly dying through the Steps, through daily surrender. The new world constantly comes into view and slips away, too. Jesus is right. I don't recognize it, so distracted am I by my many-more-than-five senses, my emotions.