[Oe List ...] Fwd: Richard Rohr Meditation: Grace Is Key

Mon May 8 07:10:00 PDT 2017

Herman,

Good to hear about the resource. I do like his writing. I've been working
on the OW and found this collegium by JWM so helpful. I think it does a
much deeper job that RR does, but it was for us. You are in it because it
has you answering on a point so it should bring back memories.

https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/515.pdf

Enjoy (again!),

Jack

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Herman Greene via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Some of you have found Bishop Spong helpful as he seeks to uncover the
> facts of the Christian tradition.
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> Recently I have been reading Richard Rohr's meditations. I find them very
> helpful. You may subscribe to these daily meditations. I think he does a
> pretty good job of explaining RS-1 here.
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> "*Death is not just our one physical dying, but it is going to the full
> depth, hitting the bottom, going the distance, beyond where I am in
> control, and always beyond where I am now.** "*
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> Amazing Grace.
>
> Herman
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> Grace is found at the depths and in the death of everything.
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> Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
> [image: Image of trees in a forest with daylight breaking through.]
> Resurrection
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> *Grace Is Key Monday, May 8, 2017 (Feast of Lady Julian of Norwich)*
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> *The goodness of God fills all the gaps of the universe, without
> discrimination or preference.* God is the gratuity of absolutely
> everything. The space in between everything is not space at all but Spirit.
> God is the “Goodness Glue” that holds the dark and light of things
> together, the free energy that carries all death across the Great Divide
> and transmutes it into Life. When we say that Christ “paid the debt once
> and for all,” it simply means that God’s job is to make up for all
> deficiencies in the universe. What else would God do? *Grace is what God
> does to keep all things God has made in love and alive—forever. *Grace is
> not something God gives; grace is who God *is.* If we are to believe the
> primary witnesses, an unexplainable goodness is at work in the universe.
> (Some of us call this phenomenon God, but the word is not necessary. In
> fact, sometimes it gets in the way of the experience, because too many have
> named God something other than grace.)
>
> *Death is not just our one physical dying, but it is going to the full
> depth, hitting the bottom, going the distance, beyond where I am in
> control, and always beyond where I am now.* No wonder it is scary. Such
> death is called “the descent into hell” in the early Apostles’ Creed, while
> in other sources, “the pit,” “the dark night,” “Sheol,” or “Hades.” We all
> die eventually; we have no choice in the matter. But there are degrees of
> death before the final physical one. If we are honest, we acknowledge that
> we are dying throughout our life, and this is what we learn if we are
> attentive:* grace is found at the depths and in the death of everything. *After
> these smaller deaths, we know that the only “deadly sin” is to swim on the
> surface of things, where we never see, find, or desire God or love. This
> includes even the surface of religion, which might be the worst danger of
> all. Thus, we must not be afraid of falling, failing, moving “down.”
>
> *When you go to the full depths and death, sometimes even the depths of
> your sin, you can always come out the other side—and the word for that is
> resurrection. *Something or someone builds a bridge for you, recognizable
> only from the far side, that carries you across, either willingly, or even
> dragging your feet. Something or someone seems to fill the tragic gap
> between death and life, but *only at the point of no return.* None of us
> crosses over by our own effort or merits, purity, or perfection. We are all
> carried across by an uncreated and unearned grace—from pope, to president,
> to princess, to peasant. The tomb is always finally empty. There are no
> exceptions to death, and there are no exceptions to grace. And I believe,
> with good evidence, that there are no exceptions to resurrection.
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> *Gateway to Silence:*
> Alleluia, alleluia, amen!
> *Reference:*
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> Adapted from Richard Rohr, *Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True
> Self <http://email.cac.org/t/d-l-krjditt-nljyuhuyh-r/> *(Jossey-Bass:
> 2013), xx-xxii.
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