https://cac.org/becoming-pure-in-heart-2018-10-30/
becoming pure at heart
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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We can’t risk walking around with a negative resentfulgossipy, critical mind, because then we won’t be in our 🌹true force field.🌾
🌿That’s why Jesus commanded us
to love.🌾
🌿Love
It moves us beyond our “private I” and into the full reality of we.🌾
🍃our inner attitudes and states are the real sources of our problems.🌳
We need to root out the problems at that deepest interior level.
☘️Jesus says we must not kill, that we must not even harbor hateful anger.❤️
🌹a “pure heart” ❤️(Matthew 5:8)
🌻Too often we force outward responses while the inward intent remains like a cancer.🌼
If we walk around with hatred all day, morally we’re just as much killers as the one who pulls the trigger.
❤️We can’t live that way and not be destroyed from within. 🌱
acceptable to feel
🌻The evil and genocide of both World War I and World War II were the result of decades of
Jesus tells us not to harbor hateful anger or call people names in our hearts like “fool” or “worthless person”(Matthew 5:22).
💚If we’re walking around all day thinking, “What idiots!” we’re living out of death, not life.🌿
☘️If that’s what we think and feel, that’s what
we will be—
death energy
instead of
life force.🌾
we will be—
death energy
instead of
life force.🌾
We cannot afford any disconnection from love.
❤️How we live in our hearts is our real and deepest truth.🌹
In Matthew 5:44, Jesus insists that we love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.
🌻Once we recognize whatever
we do in conscious, loving union with Reality is prayer, we can better understand what Paul means by saying“Pray unceasingly”(1 Thessalonians 5:17).🌿
Reference:
Adapted from Richard Rohr: Essential Teachings on Love, ed. Joelle Chase and Judy Traeger (Orbis Books: 2018), 157.
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