GOD
I am the wind that breathes upon the sea.
I am the wave on the ocean,
I am the murmur of leaves rustling,
I am the rays of the sun,
I am the beam of the moon and stars,
I am the power of trees growing,
I am the bud breaking into blossom.
I am the movement of the salmon swimming,
I am the courage of the wild boar fighting,
I am the speed of the stag running,
I am the strength of the ox pulling the plough,
I am the size of the mighty oak tree,
And I am the thoughts of all people
Who praise my beauty and grace.
(Celtic poem from 7th century)
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| “It is an ‘I am’ poem and therefore a Cosmic
Christ Poem…” (p. 154) |
| “What a lesson is there here, as there is
in the findings of the Jesus Seminar: Christian faith is not just about
the historical Jesus. It is also about the Cosmic Christ. It
is about creation and the divine presence in it and about the spirit
and
the divine presence in it.” (p. 154) |
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10 Principles of Creation Spirituality
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| 1. Everyone is a mystic (born full of wonder….) |
| 2. Everyone is a prophet, that is a ‘mystic
in action’ |
| 3. The universe is basically a blessing (Original
blessing [vs Original Sin] |
4. Human beings have to dig and work at finding
their deep self, their ture self,
their spirit-self. |
5. The journey that marks our digging can
be names as the four-fold journey:
- Via Positiva:
delight, awe, wonder, revely
- Via Negativa:
darkness, silence, suffering, letting go
- Via Creativa:
birthing, creativity
- Via Transformattive:
compassion, justice, healing, celebration. |
6. Everyone is an artist is some way, and
art as meditation is a primary form
of prayer… |
7. We can and do relate to the universe as
a whole since we are a microcosm
of that macrocosm… |
8. We are all sons and daughters of God; therefore
we have divine blood in our
veins, the divine
breath in our lungs; and the basic work of God is compassion. |
9. Divinity is as much Mother as Fathers,
as much Child as Parent, as much
Godhead (mystery)
as God (history), as much beyond all being as in all things. |
10. We experience the Divine in all things and all things
are in the Divine
(panentheism), and
this mystical intuition supplants theism (and its child,
atheism) as an appropriate
way to name our relation to the Divine. (pp. 285, 286) |
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