Status Updates From The Divine Dance: The Trini...

(Cont) your problem isn’t to decide who is going to heaven and who is going to hell, especially when you realize those are mostly present-tense descriptions before they are ever future destinations. Your job is to simply exemplify heaven now. God will take it from there. Here is the remedy when you find it hard to exemplify heaven: let love happen.

Without the free flow of the Holy Spirit, religion becomes a tribal sorting system, spending much time trying to define who’s in and who’s out-who’s right and who’s wrong. And surprise, we’re always on the side of the right! What are the odds? Yet refining, and any sorting that may or may not need to be done-that is the work of god. It’s not our problem. It really isn’t. (Cont)

The bankrupt, sad storyline of guilt, shame, reward, and punishment never got western civilization very far anyway. When you start in a hole you never really get out of the hole. But when you start with original blessing life only grows bigger and always much better.

The degree to which you can see the divine image where you’d rather not tells me how fully the divine image is now operative within you.

The more light and goodness you can see, the more Trinitarian you are. When you can see as Jesus and my father st. Francis see, you see divine light in everyone, especially in those who are different, who are “other” who are sinners, wounded, lepers, and lame-in those as scripture seems to indicate, where god shows up the best.

Our starting place was always original goodness, not original sin. This makes our ending place- and everything in between-possessing an inherent capacity for goodness, truth, and beauty.

Remember, mystery isn’t something you cannot understand- it is something you can endlessly understand! There is no point at which you can say “I’ve got it.” Always and forever, mystery gets you.