#125796 - 05/17/07 02:35 PM
Re: Apples of Gold
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"...Peter went up to the flat roof to pray. It was about noon, and he was hungry. But while lunch was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. Then a voice said to him,
'Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.'
'Never, Lord,' Peter declared. 'I have never in all my life eaten anything forbidden by our Jewish laws.'
The voice spoke again, 'If God says something is acceptable, don't say it isn't.'
The same vision was repeated three times and then the sheet was pulled up to heaven....
....Peter told them. 'You know it is against the Jewish laws for me to come into a Gentile home like this. But God has shown me that I should never think of anyone as impure. So I came as soon as I was sent for....'
.... 'I see very clearly that God doesn't show partiality. In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.'"
- from Saint Luke's account of the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10,(NLT)
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#125865 - 05/18/07 03:15 AM
Re: Apples of Gold
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It was about 1874 that Sri Ramakrishna interested himself actively in Christianity....
One day, while Sri Ramakrishna was seated in the drawing room of another devotee's home, he saw a picture of the Madonna and Child. Absorbed in contemplation of this picture, he saw it suddenly become living and effulgent. An ecstatic love for Christ filled Sri Ramakrishna's heart, and a vision came to him of a Christian church in which devotees were burning incense and lighting candles before Jesus. For three days Sri Ramakrishna lived under the spell of this experience. On the fourth day, while he was walking in a grove at Dakshineswar, he saw a person of serene countenance approaching with his gaze fixed on him. From the inmost recesses of Sri Ramakrishna's heart came the realization, "This is Jesus, who poured out his heart's blood for the redemption of mankind. This is none other than Christ, the embodiment of love." The Son of Man then embraced Sri Ramakrishna.... Thus was Sri Ramakrishna convinced of Christ's divinity.
- - Swami Prabhavananda, The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta, (1963)
Jesus said, ...""I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel."
Saint Luke's Gospel 7:9 (NIV)
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#126131 - 05/19/07 04:10 PM
Re: Apples of Gold
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OF BEING
I know this happiness
is provisional:
.........the looming presences-
.........great suffering, great fear-
.........withdraw only
.........into peripheral vision:
but ineluctable this shimmering
of wind in the blue leaves:
this flood of stillness
widening the lake of sky:
this need to dance,
this need to kneel:
......................this mystery:
PRIMARY WONDER
Days pass when I forget the mystery.
Problems insoluble and problems offering
their own ignored solutions
jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber
along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
their colored clothes; cap and bells.
once more the quiet mystery
is present to me, the throng's clamor
recedes: the mystery
that there is anything, anything at all,
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,
rather than void: and that, O Lord,
Creator, Hallowed One, You still,
hour by hour sustain it.
-Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
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#126479 - 05/22/07 04:35 PM
Re: Apples of Gold
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"Because of Christ and our faith in him,
we can now come fearlessly into God's presence, assured of his glad welcome."
St. Paul to the Ephesians, 3:12. (NLT)
"Without wavering, let us hold tightly to the hope we say we have,
for God can be trusted to keep his promise....
Do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord, no matter what happens....
We have faith that assures our salvation.
What is Faith?
It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen.
It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see....
So take a new grip with your tired hands and stand firm on your shaky legs. Mark out a straight path for your feet then those who follow you, though they are weak and lame, will not stumble and fall but will beome strong." From chapter 10,11 and 12 of Hebrews, (NLT)
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#126772 - 05/25/07 03:16 AM
Re: Apples of Gold
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"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our sufficiency is from God, who has qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life."
- II Corinthians 3:5-6
"If we look beyond ourselves at that which is greater than we, then we can feel called to help others in just the moment when we ourselves need help most urgently - and , astonishingly, we can help. A power works through us which is not of us.... Perhaps we remember other situations when an action of a person, whose life we knew was disrupted, had a priestly, awakening , and healing effect upon us. It did not come from him, but was in him, as it did not come from us, but was in us.... Against both arrogance and despair stands the word that our qualification does not come from us, nor from any man or any institution, not even from the church, but from God. And if it comes from God it is His Spiritual Presence in our spirit."
- Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now, chapter seven, "Spiritual Presence"
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