To anybody who has been reading and just not posting (yet? only need 5 more to get a red icon) remember "ifyoucanfixit" Janice in your prayers, positive thoughts or whatever way that you may use to intercede with the One Who IS for this wonderful woman. She has a blood-clot in her lung. She is really sweet and deserves all the best from all of us. Thanks.
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On another note, found this on the internet while searching for the words 'gay' and 'monk' in the same page. Lots of hits. Here is something that I find really familiar...
Now if the Gospel means anything at all it means that the Good News about God is unambivalent, that there are no “if”s and “but”s in God, God’s love is unconditional. And this means, above all, that there are no double-binds in God. That God desires that our desire should flow free, life-giving and untrammeled, because it is in that flow of desire that we are called into being.
Well, if that is the case, imagine then what might be a conversation between the Unambivalently loving God and the self:
UlG: I love you
Self: but I’m full of shit, how can you love me
UlG: I love you
Self: but you can’t love me, I’m part of all this muck
UlG: it’s you that I love
Self: how can it be me that you love when I’ve been involved in bad relationships, dark rooms, machinations against other people
UlG: it’s you that I love
Self: but…
UlG: it’s you that I love
Self: but…
UlG: it’s you that I love
Self: OK then, so are you just going to leave me in the shit?
UlG: Because I love you you are relaxing into my love and you will find yourself becoming loveable, indeed becoming someone that you will scarcely recognise
Self: Hadn’t I better do something to get all ready for this becoming loveable
UlG: Only if you haven’t yet got it that it’s I who do the work and you who get to shine. Because I love you, you are relaxing into being loved and will find yourself doing loveable things because you are loved
Self: I think I could go along with this.
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