...after all I have been through I could easily renounce the world, go and live in a monastery and pray and be in solitude, but as much as my life’s journey drives me to that, my ‘faith to live by’ will always bring me back to society, for I believe that is where our roots are to be- to Love God and to love the world.
I think when John Wesley said ‘the Gospel of Jesus Christ knows no religion but social, no holiness but social holiness’- he was right; we can pray and hide and become a self righteous people, but the refining of the heart- the testing of the metal and the pursuit of perfect love, has to be in the relationships with the world.
…it is with pure joy that I have prayed the Covenant prayer…
Saved by grace- the response to that grace is that I can no longer live for myself, I am not my own man, but divinely linked to you, to humanity and to the trinity. God the creator, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Therefore, to say put me to what you will, is simply to live. To be ranked wherever God would have me in creation, in whatever I do and whatever I suffer, in times of activity or rest, fullness or emptiness, this is a natural response… for I love God… this is in society…we Love all.
This is a personal prayer- but- it is manifested in society…
For when we yield to the freedom this prayer offers, of being one with all in the universe we enter a unity with all creation, for from dust we are created, and to dust we will return. But we will be fitted, consecrated, ratified and fulfilled in heaven, lost in wonder, love and praise.
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