Beautiful blue sky today with cool temperatures, a light breeze, and the sun’s shadows at that certain angle which announces the end of summer.
Keep us strong. Keep us in your hands. IJN amen.
From Lee today, Inner Christianity Substack;
(From Meister Eckhart, sermon 11,finish)
See, God loves us so. God importunes us so. And God cannot wait till the soul has turned away and stripped off all creatures. It is a certain and necessary truth that God must seek us. as though His Godhead were at stake, which it is. And God can do no more without us than we without Him. For even if we were able to turn from God, God could still not turn from us.
I declare that I will not pray to God to give to me, nor praise him for what He has given me but I will pray to Him to make me worthy to receive and I will praise him because He is of such a nature and essence that He must give. He who would deprive God of this would deprive him of his own being of his very life that we may thus in truth become the Son. May that truth help us of which I have spoken.
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So we are vessels into which the world flows.
But it is not the world so much as God’s world, which is the wholeness of it in every particular detail throughout the cosmos. Everything flowing into the world from God, not out of desire, but necessity, God must give.
There is something compelling about the relationship between this cosmos of creation and God’s being. Something that we don’t understand. And yet, even as we don’t understand it, we are living it. We are in the midst of what Emmanuel Swedenborg called the inflow. That place where life and goodness and even God himself flow into being without hesitation and without ever ceasing.
And we here, as creatures of creation, are instruments made to receive that glory as it flows into being, here within every cell and every molecule of the body.
And to see that we are the beneficiaries of a goodness beyond measure, the light of the soul flowing into us perpetually and without sensation in an eternal and endless generosity.
And for this we should offer thanks and praise. Amen.
There is nothing to do. I just need to be here. But this is already goodness itself, regardless of my tiny nature or my helplessness. I am still invited to be. Like every cricket that sings and every bird that calls, I am invited to be. And I need not worry or think, for it will add nothing to this glory. The only thing that this glory calls for is for me, to bring my being to it, held gently in my hands, and offer to participate.
Lee van Laer, morning five Substack today, add nothing to this glory
Gratitude is always appropriate thank you, Lord, especially for the sweet conversation with S last night
And thanks for the delicious muffins this morning
I think it, but I shudder Let this cup pass — I really want to end there Lord give us strength IJN
If we begin to sense love with the sensation of being, one begins to see the way in which without this, the world cannot be put right. And so it is the duty of every creature on the planet, regardless of its size or its nature, to take in this love which is given throughout all of creation as a substance for food, and to take it as deeply into the body as possible so that all of life throughout the cosmos can rest upon the foundation of love which brought it here in the first place. In this stillness, I listen very carefully.
Lee van Laer, Morning Five Substack today, I listen very carefully
I have come to a place
where I can begin to see how helpless I really am, and how beholden I am to the forces of the planet and even the cosmos itself. And yet, this is not a source of despair, this helplessness, but a source of hope. A place where I see the extraordinary value of awareness, the very fine quality of its vibration, the endless beauty of its ability to perceive the world, and its open-hearted invitation to me , to always and everywhere participate in the receiving of these impressions. Many difficult things will happen each day, and yet I can always return to this place where the energy is whole. and supports me in being. I can always return to the grace that has helped me to arrive here where I am. I can always return to the goodness which inwardly forms every creature in creation. Inhabiting this earth in relationship with many other creatures.
Lee van Laer, morning five Substack
, I can always return, Today
Time for tea. Already been to the park, even though slow and draggy. I am so clumsy lately! God grant his peace for this day for the whole world IJN
