Evolving Love
From: Mike Helsher
Date: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:07 pm
Subject: Evolving Love
From RS's Lecture series on the "Gospel
of Saint John":
"...The mission of our
Earth is the cultivation of the principle of Love to its highest
degree by those beings that are evolving on it. When the earth
has reached the end of its evolution, Love should permeate it
through and through. Let us understand clearly what is meant
by this expression: The Earth is the planetary condition for
the evolution of Love."
Wow, the evolution of Love. He's not
talking about some mushy under the sheets at night feeling is
he. He's talking about "the Principle of Love" evolving
to "its highest degree." In general, the idea of evolution
denotes a process. A process implies motion of some sort. Well,
what kind of motion do we need to move the process of evolving-Love
forward?
Thinking, thought, contemplation, or some kind of active interaction
with questions that doesn't have a slam-dunk been there done
that I'm right your wrong ending to it.
So, Like Dori the absent minded fish, I think I'll...
"Just keep thinking...just keep thinking...THINKING..thinking..THINKING..I
like to Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiink
Truth and ....ahhh, what did I...oh...Loaf?...no wait....Dove?..
or something
Mike
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From: golden3000997
Date: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:01 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Evolving Love
She wasn't absent minded! She has SHORT TERM
MEMORY LOSS! Like me. : )
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From: golden3000997
Date: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:08 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Evolving Love
http://home.comcast.net/~motherteresasite/wis.html
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From: golden3000997
Date: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:16 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Evolving Love
http://members.tripod.com/~ZenCyn/mteresa.html
http://home.comcast.net/~motherteresasite/quotes.html
"Keep the joy of loving
God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet, especially
your family. Be holy--let us pray."
"There is no greater
sickness in the world today than the lack of love."
"We can do no great things;
only small things with great love."
"God loves a cheerful
giver. She or he gives best who gives with a smile."
"The hunger for love
is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
"Kind words can be short
and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
"We need to find God,
and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the
friend of silence. See how nature--trees and flowers and grass--grow
in silence. See the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move
in silence. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we
can give in our active life."
"God made the world rich
enough to feed and clothe all human beings."
"The other day I dreamed
that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back
to Earth, there are no slums up here.' "
"Pride destroys everything.
To imitate Jesus is the key to be meek and humble in heart."
"There is only one God
and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone
is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help
a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim,
a Catholic become a better Catholic."
"People who love each
other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They
may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people.
Everything depends on how we love one another."
"When I was crossing
into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying
any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books."
"If you have a sick or
lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe
just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful
work."
"Prayer gives us a pure
heart and a pure heart can do much."
"Keep your heart pure.
A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see
God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is
peace."
"The poor do not need
our sympathy and our pity. The poor need our love and compassion."
"I don't know what God
is doing. He knows. We do not understand, but of one thing I'm
sure, He doesn't make a mistake."
"God has created us to
love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer--to
know that he loves me, that I have been created for greater things."
"The joy of Jesus will
be my strength--it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will
see it in my work, my walk, my prayer--in everything."
"Keep the light of Christ
always shining in your hearts. Only He is the Way to be trodden.
He is the Truth we must speak out. He is the Love we must love."
"Faith in action is love,
and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into
living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself,
with Jesus our Lord."
"Christ is hidden under
the suffering appearance of anyone who is hungry, naked, homeless,
or dying."
"People are hungry for
God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We
are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes
and see."
"We must convert our
love for Christ into deeds. We must express Christian love in
concrete, living ways."
"Let us bring love and
compassion to win the world, to bring the world the gospel of
Christ. Let us all bring the good news that God loves the world!"
"You who have received
so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that
God has loved you, with tenderness."
"Communion with Christ
gives us our strength, our joy, and our love."
"All of us must be saints
in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be
saints and so give glory to the Father."
"My prayer for you is
that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus'
call to you with the simple word 'yes'."
"Love does not measure;
it just gives."
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From: golden3000997
Date: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:18 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Evolving Love
http://home.comcast.net/~motherteresasite/stories.html
Remember the Small Things
Some of my sisters work in Australia. On a reservation, among
the Aborigines, there was an elderly man. I can assure you that
you have never seen a situation as difficult as that poor old
man's. He was completely ignored by everyone. His home was disordered
and dirty. I told him, "Please, let me clean your house,
wash your clothes, and make your bed." He answered, "I'm
okay like this. Let it be."
I said again, "You will
be still better if you allow me to do it."
He finally agreed. So I was
able to clean his house and wash his clothes. I discovered a
beautiful lamp, covered with dust. Only God knows how many years
had passed since he last lit it.
I said to him, "Don't
you light your lamp? Don't you ever use it?"
He answered, "No. No
one comes to see me. I have no need to light it. Who would I
light it for?"
I asked, "Would you light
it every night if the sisters came?"
He replied, "Of course."
From that day on the sisters
committed themselves to visiting him every evening. We cleaned
the lamp, and the sisters would light it every evening.
Two years passed. I had completely
forgotten that man. He sent this message: "Tell my friend
that the light she lit in my life continues to shine still."
I thought it was a very small
thing. We often neglect small things.
To Die Like an Angel
One evening we went out and rescued four people off the streets.
One of them was in a desperate condition. I told the sisters,
"You take care of the others. I will care or this one who
is worse off." I did everything for her that my love could
do. I put her into bed, and I saw a beautiful smile light up
her face. She squeezed my hand and only managed to say two words,
"Thank you." And then she closed her eyes.
I couldn't help but ask myself
there beside her body, "What would I have said if I had
been in her place?" My answer was very simple. I would have
said that I was hungry, that I was dying, that I was cold. Or
I would have said that this or that part of my body hurt or something
like that. But she gave me much more. She gave me her grateful
love. And she died with a smile on her face.
Abandonment Is an Awful
Poverty
One day I visited a house where our sisters shelter the aged.
This is one of the nicest houses in England, filled with beautiful
and precious things, yet there was not one smile on the faces
of these people. All of them were looking toward the door. I
asked the sister in charge, "Why are they like that? Why
can't you see a smile on their faces?" (I am accustomed
to seeing smiles on people's faces. I think a smile generates
a smile, just as love generates love.)
The sister answered, "The
same thing happens every day. They are always waiting for someone
to come and visit them. Loneliness eats them up, and day after
day they do not stop looking. Nobody comes."
Abandonment is an awful poverty.
There are poor people everywhere, but the deepest poverty is
not being loved.
The poor we seek may live
near us or far away. They can be materially or spiritually poor.
They may be hungry for bread or hungry for friendship. They may
need clothing, or they may need the sense of wealth that God's
love for them represents. They may need the shelter of a house
made of bricks and cement or the shelter of having a place in
our hearts.
Joy and Prayer
One day a novice in Rome came to me. She was crying. I asked
her, "What is the matter?" She had just come back from
a family and said, " Mother, I have never seen such suffering.
They had nothing in the house. There was this terrible sickness,
the terrible cancer, and I could do nothing. Please allow me
to do a little bit of extra penance. I want to share in that
suffering." She was a young sister, scarcely three years
in our congregation, but it was painful for her to see the suffering
of the others.
Joy is prayer, Joy is strength.
Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
God loves a cheerful giver. He gives most who gives with joy.
The best way to show our gratitude to God and the people is to
accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the normal result
of a heart burning with love. Never let anything so fill you
with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
This I tell my sisters. This
I tell you.
God Brought to a Destitute
I never forget what happened to our sisters in Rome, where we
work with the shut-ins. They go to the poor people's houses.
(We clean the house and give them a bath, wash their clothes
in the house and so on.)
The sisters found someone
left in a terrible condition. They cleaned his room and washed
is clothes and gave him a good bath, but he never spoke.
After two days he told the
sisters, "You have brought God into my life, bring father
also."
They went to the parish priest
and brought the priest. That man who never spoke, only that sentence
he said, made his confession (he was Catholic). He made his confession
after sixty years, and next morning he died.
He had a beautiful death!
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From: Mike Helsher
Date: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:28 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Evolving Love
She wasn't absent minded! She has SHORT
TERM MEMORY LOSS! Like me. : )
Oops, I thought I thunk that one wrong. So
let me get this straight -- she has short term memory lag?...I
mean ...what, like ...she forgets stuff..or something?
Quick Christine...Whats my name? [abnoxious sound of a loud buzzer
going off]
Truth and Memory Loss
Mike ;^)
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