Jim Curtis, "Chant" |
In advent we journey toward peace through hope, with love
and joy. We sink into the quiet of our hearts and minds,
as nature, in the northern hemisphere, slows her pace and earth cools in the
shortest days of sunlight. The season calls us inward, toward the
deep truth of who we are, toward the reconciling of our mind and heart.
"Be still!" declares the Holy Darkness, "and wait for the light
to come."
Wait. Watch. The coming of the light is inevitable. Pay
attention! this is your story.
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your
life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
Pay attention now to where the birth of Jesus has taken
place. This eternal birth takes place in the soul totally in the way it takes
place in eternity, neither less nor more. Whatever perfection is to enter the
soul, be it divine, unique light or grace or happiness, all of it must come
into the soul of a necessity through this birth of divine awareness and in no
other way. Wait only for the birth of Christ within yourself, And you will
discover all blessing and all consolation, all bliss, all being, and all truth.
~ Meister Eckhart
There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth,
beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest
heavens. This is the light that shines in our heart.
~ Chandogya Upanishad
Art: Jim Curtis
Be aware. You are made in the image of God. Bring that
forward. Be the Love and Beauty that you are made to be in the Image of the
Creator, to whom you are eternally connected.
May the peace of the Eternal Christ, the Word of Divine Light be born in your heart this
beautiful season.
_/\_Peggy at ECUMENICUS