Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Center for Action and Contemplation's Father Richard Rohr's Meditation "Whole-Making" for Sunday, 16 November 2014

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Weir, Julian Alden, Knitting for Soldiers, 1918. The Phillips Collection. - Center for Action and Contemplation's Father Richard Rohr's Meditation "Whole-Making" for Sunday, 16 November 2014 - God is always oneing everything: making twos and threes and fours and divisions and dichotomies and dualisms into one.
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
"Oneing"
"Whole-Making"
Sunday, 16 November 2014
One of my favorite mystics is called Julian of Norwich. We don’t know her real name. She is simply named after the church in Norwich, England—St. Julian’s—where she had her little anchor-hold. One window of her small room looked into the sanctuary for mass and another opened to the street where the people would come by for her counsel and prayer. Julian experienced her “showings,” as she called them, on the night of May 8, 1373. Then she lived in the anchor-hold for twenty years, trying to process and communicate what she had experienced on that one night. Julian wrote about these showings in her book Revelations of Divine Love, the first book published in English by a woman.
Julian experienced and wrote of a compassionate, relational, and joyful God. She writes: “For before he made us, he loved us; and when we were made, we loved him. And this is our substantial goodness, the substantial goodness in us of the Holy Spirit. It is nothing we create; it is our substance. God revealed to me that there may and there will be nothing at all between God and the soul. And in this endless love, the human soul is kept whole as all the matter of creation is kept whole.”
Julian uses the Middle English word “oneing” to describe this whole-making work of God. God is always oneing everything: making twos and threes and fours and divisions and dichotomies and dualisms into one. As she explains, “God wants us to know that this beloved soul that we are is preciously knitted to him in its making by a knot so subtle and so mighty that it is oned with God. In this oneing it is made endlessly holy. Furthermore, he wants us to know that all the souls which are one day to be saved in heaven without end are knit in this same knot and united in this same union, and made holy in this one identical holiness.”
Adapted from Intimacy: The Divine Ambush, disc 7 (CD, MP3 download)
Gateway to Silence: We are one in God.

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