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Everything is Revelation

2/7/2013

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When you don't split everything up according to what you like and what you don’t like, you leave the moment open, you let it be what it is in itself, and you let it speak to you.

--Richard Rohr
 
I've been thinking a lot about the idea that everything is revelation. The implications are enormous. For one it seems to me that in spite of our reservations about what Jesus meant when he said, "Do not judge lest you be judged," it could really be true that we don't need to judge. If everything is revelation then we only need to receive the gift of it. Of course we should notice our resistance (our judgment), but then we need not waste any time wishing we could change what already exists and move, as soon as possible, into an open, receptive position, confident in God's compassionate presence and redemptive activity. God's Kingdom is creatively at work in the very things we would like to judge as unacceptable.
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Armin
2/28/2013 01:41:56 pm

I like these words and am likely chief among like/don't like splitters. For sake of clarity, do you have an example of how you may have previously judged as unacceptable, then in hindsight saw this as blocking a gift of revelation?

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David Norling
2/28/2013 10:01:20 pm

I'm glad to be reminded of this quote, it sheds a lot of light on our previous discussion as to why I feel it is unnecessary and limiting to come to conclusions about most of what we experience.

As for examples, everyday is full of mundane experiences that I judge to be unacceptable. Traffic, for instance. I suspect that anything that slows me down is beneficial and yet I quite often find myself impatient on the road. And who knows what series of events I might avoid or be invited into because the traffic made me wait and watch and notice.

Distractedness in prayer is another experience I fight and judge to mean that I'm wasting my time or am myself a big dolt. When I have every reason to believe that God is actively revealing truth that would set me free. In fact, I believe that self awareness and compassion have resulted from wading through the inherent frustrations in the practice of contemplative prayer.

The splitting is human and inevitable. The freedom comes from seeing it for what it is, merely thoughts and not our deepest self in Christ. This simple awareness opens up the possibility of increasingly experiencing the eternity that God has put into our hearts.

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