Hymn to The Great Song w/ Br. David Steindl-Rast: In Search of The Great Song, a Song Without Borders... youtube/watch?v=fFF_0cDHqYY ________________________________________________________________________ Some of my own thoughts -- https://facebook/notes/francis-kromkowski/healing-and-wholeness-in-a-personal-universe-we-come-from-and-go-to-life-to-ligh/378095275584091 ... In a universe such as this, one manifesting the power and wisdom of such a wonderful and good God, it is not humility and realism to give up and give in in the search for justice, peace, liberation and profound healing and wholeness. Such pessimism and resignation is, I believe, rather a refusal or inability to listen for and catch the ground tone of the great song which is to be the harmony of all the voices of the universe (to use John Omans great words). Such a refusal or inability is perhaps based (as John Oman says in his great book Vision and Authority) in fear and self-pity and self-absorption and such self-absorption is rooted in the many hurts and wounds of our lives. The more I get to know people and open myself to their lives, the more I hear about deep hurts and troubles and injustices that my friends and acquaintances have experienced, serious traumas that they dont often mention (except when they feel safe enough to open their hearts) but which have affected them profoundly -- affect them deeply right at this very moment -- and so I have grown in my appreciation of the great sorrows, pains, tragedies and sufferings of life. I am no stranger to great sorrow and pain. But such sorrows are not the last word. We need healing, we desperately need healing, it is true, and as children of a great and mighty God, we should claim and reclaim our wholeness. John Oman, writing about the example of the Master Jesus: In this perfecting of might through weakness, the unchanging harmony of the stars in their courses has been outdone and the heart of the Infinite has found its manifestation. Above the compulsion of necessary law, up to the perfect harmony of an obedience bound only by the free choice of a love which beats in harmony with the heart of the Eternal, we are called to aspire. And what it has been the glorious work of time to begin, it will be the glorious work of eternity to complete. In the faith of this completion we must live now, not striving and crying, every one in their own key, against the discords, but endeavoring to catch the ground tone of the great song which is to be the harmony of all the voices of the universe. [Oman, Vision and Authority, second edition, 1928 (first edition, 1902): 336-338, 111-112, 116-117] In Omans view, and mine, to exercise the great power and promise of a fellowship of the spirit modeled after the life and spirit of Jesus is not to baptize and rename the old social order, which is, as Oman says, at its best no more than a political compromise of cherished convictions and interests which rarely goes beyond the common fears and at its worst is nothing but ego power and fear incarnate. Following Oman, I say that to exercise the great power and promise of a fellowship of the spirit following Jesus is to transform the social order and reconstitute it as a true association of love in which perfect freedom has joined hands with perfect fellowship, a community worthy of and faithful to Jesus, the Prince of Peace, the Good Shepherd. (Oman, Vision and Authority, 140-145) More at https://facebook/notes/francis-kromkowski/healing-and-wholeness-in-a-personal-universe-we-come-from-and-go-to-life-to-ligh/378095275584091
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:05:31 +0000
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