[Oe List ...] A good reflection on Romney

[Isobel and Jim Bishop]

Dear George,
Thank you very much for this writing. In this particular time of  
turbulence it is very reassuring and helpful.

Richard Rohr is speaking at a Conference in Chicago in January, ( I  
think).   I am part of the Australian Network  of the World Community  
for Christian Meditation, and it is under this ' banner' that Richard  
Rohr is speaking.

In peace,
Isobel Bishop.

On 20/09/2012, at 8:09 PM, George Holcombe wrote:

> Part of my early morning meditation is coming across some of the  
> writers, spiritual guides, etc.  and I got Richard Rohrs this  
> morning and thought about us.
>
> "
> THE REIGN OF GOD

	
> There are always two worlds. The world as it operates is largely  
> about power; the world as it should be, or “the Reign of God,”  
> is always about love. How can you live in both worlds at the same  
> time? As you allow yourself to loosen your grip on the first, you  
> will gradually see the inadequacy and weakness of power as  
> domination or control. You will then tighten your grip around the  
> second, which is the ever purer motivation of love for others  
> instead of yourself.
>
> Any exercise of power apart from love leads to brutality and evil;  
> but love that does not lead people to a whole new kind of power is  
> mere sentimentality and emotion. I must admit, it is rare to find  
> people who hold both together in perfect balance—who have found  
> their inner divine power and use it for others.
>
>
> Prayer:
> Your will be done.
>
> George Holcombe
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>
> Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything  
> to do with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an  
> alien—it just appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in  
> the world could you hope when there is absolutely nothing to  
> justify any hope?    ~Joseph W. Mathews
>
>
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