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Innerweave:
The Wholeness Story
By Wil Alexander, PhD
Professor of family medicine,
School of Medicine
I have wondered long and hard lately about our tired and growing mad pace world.
What must it be like for God so enthroned afar, yet not far from any one of us,
to witness and be a part of our journey? It is good to remember that the world
Jesus walked in, and a part of, was not too different a world. Because He came
to show us what God is like and how He feels about us, we need to be reminded
now and then what Jesus told us about God through His life here:
“Jesus’ relationship with God is clearly the source of his insight,
of his compelling message of the reign of God, of his compassion, of his unswerving
commitment. His commandment to those who would follow him is that they should
love one another just as he loved them (John 13:34). What, or how, did Jesus
love? He loved all comers, no matter how poor or socially unacceptable; he loved
them into their own healing, their own truth. His love was inseparable from a
passionate commitment to truth. He taught tirelessly, confronting both the religious
and the secular powers whose oppressive laws and codes of conduct hindered people
from living in free, loving relationship with God and each other. Jesus seemed
incapable of violating his own integrity. He would live and speak the truth no
matter what the cost. Jesus put his life on the line for what he knew to be true—that
God preferred active mercy to ritual sacrifice, that God’s love was as
accessible and impartial as the sunshine, that forgiveness was available before
a person knew they needed it, and, above all, that God was present within him
as his Father. That is the way of Jesus, and through his Spirit dwelling within
and among us, that same Way is also the very core of our authentic humanity.”
—Elaine M. Prevallet, Weavings, November, 2001
Think on these things as you walk gently on our earthy earth and among those
not always so heavenly.
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