greetings!
sunday is palm sunday...
next week is holy week...
culminating with...
maunday thursday...
good friday...
resurrection sunday...
today's thought is from nouwen in SHOW ME THE WAY: "God has become human -- that is, God-with-us -- in order to show us that the anxious concern for recognition and the violence among us spring from a lack of faith in the love of God. if we had a firm faith in God's unconditional love for us, it would no longer be necessary to be always on the lookout for ways of being admired by people, and we would need, even less, to obtain from people by force what God desires to give us so abundantly..."
fr basil pennington has identified three basic issues which comprise the "false self" -- living our lives based on three basic false premises that our value is based on what we have, what we do and what other people think of us...
but the "true self" finds its authentic identity as the beloved child of the Father...
our lives are best fulfilled by nurturing the true self, not being driven by the false self!
YOU are the beloved of the Father...
rest in his love this weekend...
shalom...
guy
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Thank you for the outline of the Holy Week. The outline is a good reminder of the celebration before us. And thank you for the contrast between the true and false self. Understanding how the true self can function and understanding the forces of the false self will hopefully assist in living in the true self.
ReplyDeletemy cpe supervisor dr jim, a very wise and seasoned man, keeps reminding me that as long as i am human i will be comprised of both my true self and my false self -- at first, i just wanted to nuke my false self -- now, i just try to feed my true self more [while starving the false self]. i love your language above -- may i live this week in my truest self...
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