Posted by giveawayboy on March 20, 2005 at 16:14:34:
In Reply to: living authentically posted by PS on March 19, 2005 at 02:32:32:
: I don't know how to explain it any better, except maybe to say that I can hear Jesus saying, "This do, and you will live."
You know, sometimes I want to turn off that idiotic chatter, those little angelic-gremlins crawling up and down some kabbalistic grid in my mind trying to turn everything into gold. Sometimes it's good to bring everything outside myself and quit endless repetitions inside, where I am my own spiritual universe. Sometimes, after reasonable thought and consideration, it's time to DO STUFF, like help that old lady cross the street, slip your offering in the poor box, say your prayers or read your Bible. All those things, to me, are ACTION things. Steven used to tell us about this stuff comparing orthodoxy (what we believe) w orthopraxy (what we do). I think we need both. It sounds reasonable to me. In this sense I sometimes envy the kid in rabbinical school who has to don a talit, daven and say Shema. I mean at least, he knows what to DO. I guess I want to get to the point too where none of this is quite conscious. In this sense my actions will be a natural, egoless response to He who is acting in and through me. No isms. No systems. It is no longer I but Christ.