Feb. 28 St. John Cassian James 5:9-12, Mk. 10:1-12 “Little by Little”
As we plan the twenith anniversary of Temenos and my ministry in San Francisco I think back through the years to people I have known and have left–I see their faces, and their frustration with my “stubborness”, and “single mindedness”. It is painful, but as I reflect I realzie it is about the way we each approach journey with God. Temenos is shaped by my approach.
I came to San Francisco simply to give myself to God as Dorothy Day did, and we both had similar struggles, but in different ways, and I remember her words: Neither revolutions nor faith is won without keen suffering. For me Christ was not be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart’s blood. We do not buy cheap in this market. And the market is not cheap. I have learned Scott Peck’s words are true, “Life is difficult”, but in that diffculty, in that pain there is joy and meaning. And so I continue this journey with the goal of embracing completely the second standard of St. Ignatius–the value system of Jesus.
Will Tuttle talks of our transformation, and while narrows it to veganism, I see it as embracing God and being tansformed by God
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“Each and every one of us makes our world.
Question everything this culture says, throw off the chains of harming and stealing from fish, birds, and other mammals, and join the vegan celebration!
We will love this world and each other so deeply that we will all be transformed.”
Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!