Weekly Pause & Ponder

To be a disciple of Jesus is not to cling to Jesus but to go forth as part of the cosmic family, to enter into new relationships. The message of Jesus can be summed up in several key ideas: make wholes where there are divisions, forget the past and go forward, allow the Spirit to work in you to create a new future; do these things because God seeks a new presence in the cosmos, a new unity in love, peace, and justice. The whole gospel message is based on the advent of new life. Jesus shows us that new life is possible; indeed, the risen Christ is the hope of the cosmos, the Christ who is coming to be in and through us.  ...Christian life is a way of being related in the world and to the world. It is recognizing that relationships form the field of gospel values rather than gospel values forming relationships.
The Emergent Christ: Exploring The Meaning Of Catholic In An Evolutionary Universe, by Ilia Delio, p. 110.