Weekly Pause & Ponder

Weekly Pause & Ponder

In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is time to inject “new meaning into the veins of human civilization.”  We need to expand our sense of love beyond the personal, to its social and political implications as well.  Only in doing so will we cast out the darkness that now hangs like a specter above the world.  It is time for us to get deeply serious about love.

from The Shadow Effect,  by Marianne Williamson. 

Weekly Pause and Ponder

…God loves things by becoming them.  God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them.  Through the act of creation, God manifested the eternally outflowing Divine Presence into the physical and material world.  Ordinary matter is the hiding place for Spirit, and thus the very Body of God.   - Richard Rohr.