Our Mission
We are a center for experiential education, rooted in the Gospels, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, and equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world.
June 3, 2011
The Annunciation (detail), Henry Ossawa Tanner, Paris, France 1898,
The Philadelphia Museum of Art. http://www.philamuseum.org
Mary, Icon of Receptivity
In the Mary story we have what some call the “second creation story” in the Bible. Again it is a creation that is “out of nothing,” just as in Genesis. Mary is the one quite willing to be nothing, and she conceives the Eternal Christ as Jesus.
God does not need worthiness ahead of time; God creates worthiness by the choice itself. God does not love you because you are good; you are good because God loves you. Rearrange your head and see if you can fit that inside!
It seems God will not come into the world uninvited or undesired. An invitation, an open space, is all that God seems to need or want.
Adapted from Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, pp.178-179
Starter Prayer:
Here I am Lord;
I come to do your will.
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