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December 11, 2006 · 9:42 pm

It is beginning

I came home from work today to find a package from Amazon.  Ahhh – an early Christmas present.  My copy of  The Real Mary by Scot McKnight had arrived.  That and then finding a poem on Maggi Dawn’s site has begun to put me in a mood for celebrating this season. 

          mary’s song        by Luci Shaw

Blue homespun and the bend of my breast
keep warm this small hot naked star
fallen to my arms. (Rest …
you who have had so far to come.)
Now nearness satisfies
the body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies
whose vigor hurled a universe. He sleeps
whose eyelids have not closed before.
His breath (so slight it seems
no breath at all) once ruffled the dark deeps
to sprout a world. Charmed by doves’ voices,
the whisper of straw, he dreams,
hearing no music from his other spheres.
Breath, mouth, ears, eyes
he is curtailed who overflowed all skies,
all years. Older than eternity, now he
is new. Now native to earth as I am, nailed
to my poor planet, caught
that I might be free, blind in my womb
to know my darkness ended,
brought to this birth for me to be new-born,
and for him to see me mended
I must see him torn.

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December 11, 2006 · 8:00 am

From The Enneagram, A Christian Perspective

From my reading: The Enneagram A Christian Perspective by Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert, The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York, 2006

 

“So how do we try to hear this Deeper Voice?  When God speaks, it is first of all profoundly consoling and, as a result, demanding!  Anybody who has walked long with God knows this.  There are two utterly different forms of religion:  one believes that God will love me if I change; the other believes that God loves me so that I can change!  The first is the most common; the second follows upon an experience of personal Indwelling and personal love.  Ideas inform us, but love forms us – in an intrinsic and lasting way.  God is always willing to wait for the lasting transformations brought about by love.  God must be very, very patient, surely with history but also with individuals.  Most of us want results that are practical and immediate.”  (p.xxiii)

 

This is just from the preface – it is a book full of insights.  I would not have thought that a study of personalities using this ancient tool would be so helpful to my own spiritual growth.  Someitmes it is scary looking deep into myself.  If I was not sure that God loved that inner me that I sometimes cover up with stuff I think is good on the outside, I don’t know that I would dare look very deep.

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