Richard Rohrs Daily Meditation Life as Participation Your Life Is Not about You Sunday, September 14, 2014 In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul says, “I, a prisoner in the Lord, implore you to lead a life worthy of your call. Bear with one another in love, in complete selflessness, gentleness, and patience. Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one body, there is one Spirit, just as you were called into the one and same hope. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God who is Father of all, over all, through all, and within all. And each one of us has been given his own share of this grace” (4:1-7). Once you assert there is one God eventually what you come to is that there’s one pattern, one center, one source and basically one reality, and then it’s a coherent world. You would think the three monotheistic religions would have been the first to come to this realization, but to see this you must at least be at the early mystical level. Most religion up to now has been at the magical, tribal, or rational levels. My conviction is that Paul’s mystical knowing is telling us that we are participating in something much bigger than we are. Spirit, as Paul uses the term, is this realm of shared consciousness (con-scire = to know with). Our life is first, last, and foremost a participation in this one Bigger Reality. Your life is not about you. You are about life. You are an instance in this world of the one universal pattern that, for Paul, was uncovered, made clear, validated, and made available to all in the microcosmic life of Jesus. That’s why Jesus is called the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One who reveals the cosmic universal pattern that we’re all participating in, from divine conception, through human life, to divine return. You are actually more a “We” than you are an “I.”
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:13:39 +0000
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