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Contemplatives |
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In Scripture... "Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.." MT 25:13
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What Day, What Hour is our time? Why are 'evil spirits' in us, our human nature that act like terrorists. The terrorists on 9.11 acted with such willingness to commit and with such determination -- even determined to give their own lives for this commitment. When people act as terrorists in this way, only then, do we hear the call to be who we are in Christ from the beginning of time. Is being in Christ by its very nature, against our being aware of these who attack from within and without? I do not think so. I think we are not reading the 'signs of OUR times'; not discerning the 'movement of spirits' in ourselves and our world; and not being ready as we do not know the "...day nor the hour..." If we are truly living as Paul and say with Paul, "it is not I but Christ who lives in me," we will be in love. We will be aware of the people who consider, act, and do terrorist attacks within and without, in our own lives. We will pray for them before they ever do terrorists acts. In, through, and with Christ, our prayers will bring our heroes of the here and now in a Kingdom that is here, not yet. We will love God with all our being and we will love others as we love ourselves. |
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