Second Wave Spirituality
Andrew Harvey and Chris Saade introduce the topic of Second Wave Spirituality at the inaugural retreat for The International Academy of Sacred Leadership in June 2011.
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Blessing for the Epic Journey
Blessings on these who live life as an epic journey--
They are guided by the Divine force
And are propelled by the evolution of life.
They embrace the diversity of the whole
and remain faithful to a vision of final Unity.
Blessed are these whose actions are beyond creed and dogma.
They know that the fate of one is the fate of all.
Jessie Thompson
Supporting Your Spirit as You Support the World
Always remember that you are participating in an epic evolutionary story. The universe is birthing through you a consciousness that is able to hold the great values of peace, justice, freedom, solidarity and inclusion. What you sculpt in yourself is crucial to the grand story of the earth. There are a lot of unseen forces supporting you in developing your spirit. Your journey forward into the temple of spirit is crucial to God and to the universe.
Chris Saade © 2012
The Power of Love to Unite
Love
is the free and imaginative outflowing
of the Spirit over all unexplored paths.
It links those
who love in bonds that unite
but do not destroy, causing them to discover in their mutual contact
an exaltation capable of stirring in the very core of their being all that they possess of ‘uniqueness’ and ‘creative’ power.
Love alone
can unite living beings
so as to complete and fulfill them,
for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need
is to imagine our ability to love
developing until it embraces the totality of the people of the Earth.
Teilhard de Chardin (translation by Blanche Gallagher)
Your Role in this Evolutionary Story
Would embedding your own life within such a frame of heroic participation give you, too, a sense of deep calling? Can you envision living your life as if enrolled in a mission of cosmic proportion? If you wish, take a few moments right now and allow yourself to feel your connectedness to the larger body of Life, and imagine your own great work in this emergent Universe.
Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution
Blessing for Sacred Activists
Blessings on these whose hearts are stirred
By the plight of the forgotten ones.
They hear the cries of the poor and move into action.
They employ their gifts to heed the call
And know this is their sacred purpose.
Blessings to these who live every day transformed by Divine love.
They are instruments for a vision of peace bursting out into the world.
Jessie Thompson