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In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
Saturday 19th
Week OT
Bon Secours Retreat
August 16, 2014
USUAL CHILDLIKE
QUALITIES ++++++++++++++++++++
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What can Jesus mean when he says that the
Kingdom of Heaven belongs to children?
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Most commentators think of innocence, humility,
simplicity, & vulnerability as typical of children
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Surely these are the qualities Jesus expects to
find in his followers
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Conversely, the guilty, the proud, the
ostentatious, and self-righteous people scarcely reflect the values of the
Gospel and the Kingdom of Heaven
ANOTHER QUALITY:
ADAPTABILITY +++++++++++++++
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Consider with me now one other disposition
typically part of a child’s makeup, namely, adaptability
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As children, we adapt to the customs, style,
setting, and attitudes of our home life
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If our parents go shoeless in the house, we find
that normal behavior and imitate it
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If R parents insist the family eat meals
together, we initially take that to be the norm for every family
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Children are unconsciously formed by the values
in which they live
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When, like children, we submit to the values of
God’s Kingdom and think of them as normal, we, too, belong to the Kingdom
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Are not our protestations formations from
another culture?
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Can they not be changed?
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When you’re offered a carrot, you’ll drop the
turnip
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Both may be good for you, but one tastes better
and so it is with choosing the values of G’s K
CHOOSING THE KINGDOM ++++++++++++++++++++++
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The criteria for family life is what the parents
do and demand
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Criteria 4 the Kingdom = what J does &
demands
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Formed by environment of the Kingdom, we find
the peace & security of having G as R Creator, Jesus as our guide &
Spirit sustaining us
CONCLUSION
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Yes, Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these adaptable
children
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And it belongs to us when we adapt to the same
style of living
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