Christ’s Spirit, emphasized on Pentecost, celebrates an ongoing energy shift. It’s the energy shift away from worship – extracted energy, and toward inspiration – enlivening energy. Worship extracts energy by directing our energy outward. We direct our energy to an external unchanging deity and his earthly representatives. We seek in return a reward or an … Continue reading “Holy Energy: Worship or Inspiration”
Category: Spirituality
Relationships
Belief in God as Trinity is an old tradition in institutional christianity. For some it express their threefold experience of and relationship with Divinity as Creator, Incarnate, and Spirit – meaning a God Created us into being, shares our human condition in Christ’s Incarnation, and abides with us as a Holy Spirit. The Trinity as … Continue reading “Relationships”
Eternal Life
Does eternal life refer only to the hereafter or can it also refer to the herebefore and to all that is in between? Has life always been and will it always be? How can we conceive of the mystery of life? It is a miracle, revealing all that is delicate and yet so very enduring. … Continue reading “Eternal Life”
Mystery
What is the leap of faith we make to believe in… God? Such a leap moves us into the realm of mystery. The mystery of God is not revealed in beliefs about being judged or punished – or being magically ‘saved’ from them. Judgments and punishments are not so much beliefs as they are observations … Continue reading “Mystery”
Vital Spirit
The Spirit of God was experienced by disciples as a vital energy. It was as the breath of Christ and came in the physical expressions of a strong wind and tongues of fire. The presence of God in Christ was both contained in physical form, and yet, free flowing as from breath, wind, and fire. … Continue reading “Vital Spirit”