I’m sure there was a time, more than one, when common knowledge was something other than the current musing’s of the pop culture. Hard to say when these times were or how long they might have lasted. I say this not so much for the lies we were told, more for the sayings we generally accepted as the way things are. One of these is, you can’t take it with you. Nothing could be farther from the way it really is.
God’s grace, goodness and gifts are ours for all eternity.
First there is study…which leads to service
Service leads to…..charity
Beyond service and charity there is…..engagement
Engagement is self-giving love whose benefit is….. self-giving love
Collaboration is a state of mind; artful and expressive of the beauty and goodness of love and compassion; nothing less. An ideal whose edicts are those of the Church and every other shared theology which understands the principle of “love your neighbor”. Theory transitions into practice through a shift in the paradigm;
God, Family, Community, Career leads to…..global civilization
Global civilization depends on…..co-operation replacing competition
I’m not overstating my position; our world cannot spend the next 30 years preparing for war and feed 9 billion hungry people at the same time. We can apply what we are learning to the Church and its effectiveness; the real test will be to broadcast this shift in the paradigm to a waiting world, a world of great need.
Nothing is more important than the mission of the Church which is to further the work of Christ in this world, to spread His word, His glory and goodness. Collaboration is not about empire building, it’s about the salvation of souls, the work of the Church. So naturally a lot of focus has been on evangelization.
Simply put, evangelization is spreading the “good news”. The victory is ours; liberation from captivity, victory over death, over sin, over defeat and victory over the trappings of this world. Christ is bigger than the cross.
Now let’s travel from transcendental to practical. From theory to practice without co-opting, compromising and corrupting what is good, beautiful and true. Three easy steps. First, put God first. Maintain a high meditative state of mind, living in the presence of the Lord. Second, be a saint. Realize your life is not your own. Our purpose is to draw faithfulness out of everyone, not pump religion into them. And thirdly, be intuitive. We are all hard wired for God.
The love, grace and mercies of the Lord are given by Him to us in their fullness. As it is with Faith; a gift. There will never be any more or any less of Him or His timeless truths in us. So what is innate in us is inherited as intuition. We know what we know. If this is true, then one conclusion is this;
Intuition leads to cognition
Cognition leads to knowledge
Knowledge leads to wisdom
Wisdom leads to understanding
Understanding leads to consciousness
Consciousness leads to enlightenment
Enlightenment leads to self-realization
Self-realization leads to revelation
Revelation leads to God
It’s all Intuition
So it’s not His mercy and grace which grows, or His love; what deepens are our appreciation, gratitude, comprehension, trust and adoration of Him and for His gifts