“Know it well, love is its meaning.

What does he reveal? Love.

Why? For Love.

Remain in this and you will know more of the same.”           

- Julian of Norwich, Showings

Rev. David Randall-Bodman continues his 8-week worship series based on Fr. Richard Rohr’s book, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe.

In the 3rd week of the series, the focus is on Chapters 5-7 “Love is the Meaning”, “A Sacred Wholeness”, “Going Somewhere Good”

How will you participate in the “Divine Two-Step?”

God steps back to create a vacuum that only God can fill.

•        When God “hides his face” it gives us more space to develop trust and faith.

God rewards me for letting him reward me.

•        This is the divine two-step we call grace.

•        I am doing it, and yet I am not doing it;

•        It is being done unto me, and yet by me too.

•        Yet God always takes the lead in the dance, which we only recognize over time.”

God loves you by becoming you.

God loves you by turning your mistakes into grace,

•        By constantly giving you back to yourself in a larger shape.

Points to Ponder:

·        Pierre de Chardin and Richard Rohr both talk about love as energy that creates attraction.  Have you thought about or experienced love this way?

·        What serves as your object of adoration? What is your North Star that keeps you moving with some sense of happiness and purpose?

·        Have you experienced God moving away from you or MIA (missing in action)? Has that vacuum created suffering or growth? Both? Neither?