A Newsletter for Your Spiritual Nature
Communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
Our spiritual nature is to hope and dream and visualize and to connect to our purpose in life. It’s the trigger that motivates us to encounter, discover, create, and synthesize meaning, purpose and values in our lives and to seek a greater good. It enables us to access unconscious aspects of the self and to embed these higher meanings, values, and purposes in living a richer and more creative life. It makes us whole, and gives us our integrity. It helps us ask fundamental questions and reframe our answers. It transforms us.
Work is the way we give our blessing back to the community.
— Matthew Fox
Hosanna! - GUIDED BY THE DIVINE PRESENCE WITHIN, I FOLLOW THE PATH TO SPIRITUAL FREEDOM.
I imagine Jesus’ experience, riding a young donkey through the gates of Jerusalem, seeing the waving palm branches, feeling the people’s love, hope, and even their fear as they shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.”
His followers looked to Jesus as the one who would free them from the bondage of Roman rule. Jesus, embracing his Christ nature, the spiritual identity he shares with all people, had accepted the greater mission of leading humankind to freedom from all bondage, all limitation, even freedom from death.
Taking my inspiration from Jesus’ example, I fearlessly embrace my Christ nature. Guided by the divine presence within, I follow the path to spiritual freedom.
So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna!”—John 12:13
One chief idea of my life . . . is the idea of taking things with gratitude and not taking things for granted.
— G.K. Chesterton in Celebrate Your Child by Richard Carlson
To Practice This Thought:
Be lavish in your gratefulness.
Begin prayer by taking a moment to renew your intention– intention to consent to God’s presence and action– the why of your practice. Reflect on who or what God is for you at this time of your spiritual journey. Reflections may show you that at this time God is a mystery whom you do not or cannot consciously know. Remember that God is an unknowable mystery. Open to mystery itself. Simply surrender yourself to the unknown. Say yes both to God’s presence and God’s action. God’s action includes the purification and transformation of your idea of who God is, your felt ability to say yes to God, and sometimes even your capacity to pray. You are brought to deep receptivity, so that the Spirit prays in you.
May peace fill your life so love will overflow,
Rev Robert
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Thank you, Robert
Contemplative Interbeing
