Words from Evelyn Underhill in The Spiritual Life: "Any spiritual view which focuses attention on ourselves, and puts the human creature with its small ideas and adventures in the centre foreground, is dangerous till we recognise its absurdity...We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do. Craving, clutching, and fussing, on the material, political, social, emotional, intellectual--even on the religious--plane, we are kept in perpetual unrest: forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in, the fundamental verb, to Be: and that Being, not wanting, having and doing, is the essence of a spiritual life."
I have encouraged the congregation to work on their spiritual journey which begins by understanding Living in the Presence of an eternal God who is, who was, who will always be. The invitation to become a disciple of Jesus Christ is only the beginning of the journey that last an eternity. Transformation is a process and every process begins with an initial step so to our journey to Christian perfection. The words of Evelyn Underhill that reflects how we are minimalized by the cares of the world help to unpack the call to go as a part of being to make disciples. One cannot be imprisoned by self and reflect the selfless life modeled by Jesus to those we are called to invite.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment