



I decided to let Jesus play hooky from class today. So after breakfast I set him up in my recliner for the day and headed off to school.
We spent the first hour discussing our insights into what we have been learning and some of the questions that have been stirred up. Then our professor presented the idea that everything is sacred. We cannot divide the cosmos up into sacred and non-sacred if everything comes from the sacred Creator and is connected to everything else. We are immersed in the sacred every second of every day.
We shifted into how the sacred is revealed to us. Many Christians say that the Bible is the primary revelation of the sacred, but really Jesus is the primary revelation of the sacred. Once we encounter the sacred, our own experiences become the primary revelations. One of my classmates said that she thought what Jesus did was to recognize his divinity and then try to show and tell us that we too have divinity in us. We too are divine/sacred like the rest of creation.
The big blue ball (the earth) that has now appeared here twice is the center piece of our class. I try to sit in a different chair each day so I can get a different perspective of the class and of my classmates. The different positions also offer me different perspectives of the world. I suspect that my travels later this summer will also offer me different perspectives and insights on the world.
I hope you notice that I'm studying hard.
Sounds like you are learning a lot! I can't wait to hear more. You are also taking very good care of Jesus. I miss you!
ReplyDeleteI remember Matthew Fox using the Old Testament story of Moses and the Burning Bush, where Yahweh tells Moses, "Take of your sandals, Moses. You are standing on scared ground." Fox suggested, as your instructor has, that all of creation is sacred, and we do great disservice to segregate the world into sacred and profane places, which allows us to abuse and misuse the profane. Sounds like a dynamite class!
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