4/6/2023 0 Comments The tree who stands alone![]() It is all connected: everything is a part of the whole, seen or unseen. Jenna Keiper & Leslye Colvin, 2022, triptych art, United States. NASA, Galaxy NGC 4013 (detail), 2020, United States, photograph, public domain. Benjamin Yazza, Untitled 12 (detail), United States, photograph, used with permission. Image credit: Benjamin Yazza, Untitled 05 (detail), United States, photograph, used with permission. Meet the team behind the Daily Meditations.Learn more about this year’s theme Nothing Stands Alone.Read Belvie Rooks on “Revelation and Grace” in the CAC’s journal Oneing.All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days. ![]() The painting may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. Judging others is my sin.ĭedan Gills, “I Am,” in I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song, Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks (Redlands, CA: 2019). A sunflower blooming in the field stands alone with a tree is a painting by Kirill Sukhanov which was uploaded on February 2nd, 2023. I love, hate, laugh, cry, and fight.Īll the universe is reflected in me. I am red, black, yellow, brown, and white. I live on the hill and I live on the street. I’m the cringing coward and the gentle hero. The poem “I Am” is by poet Dedan Gills (1945–2015), and read by his wife Belvie Rooks on CAC’s The Cosmic We podcast : We draw this year to a close with a poetic reminder that nothing stands alone. There is no separation between humans and God because of this mutual interabiding which expresses the indivisible reality of divine love. I think that’s why so many of us are drawn to church each week-to receive communion and to eventually, hopefully, realize that we are in communion. The whole gospel message is radical union with God, with neighbor, and even with ourselves. It is clear to me that the actions we take now will have deep and irreversible consequences for the generations to come. Mother Earth and Father Sky are pushing us into a divine reckoning about what it means to be in right relationship with one another and all sentient beings in the twenty-first century and beyond. ![]() Person-in-love-with-person, person-respecting-person, person-forgiving-person, person-touching-person, person-crying-with-person, person-hugging-person: that’s where the Spirit is so beautifully present. Person-to-person is the way the gospel was originally communicated. Can we all be converted, not to Jesus (as strange as that must sound) but to the Trinity, where Jesus Christ actually exists? -Richard Rohr When there isn’t a primary understanding of who Jesus is as part of the Trinity, Jesus will be used for our own nationalistic and egocentric purposes, as a means of power and a ticket to heaven. I have molded you in the depths of the earth and knitted you together in your mother’s womb.” You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests. I hear at my center words that say: “I have called you by name, from the very beginning. ![]()
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