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Practicing the Future
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes the shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
Practicing the Future
• To what are we being called?
• To what do I respond to among the calls that I hear?
“No more will the evolutionary forces of nature propel us in their groping ways of innate instinct, through the critical point into a new state of being. From now on, if we are to have a future, we must create that future ourselves.” ~ Teilhard de Chardin
Biblical Tradition of the God-Quest
Solomon Jeremiah Jesus Paul Wealth
Power Wisdom
Love Justice
Knowledge
SolidarityJustice
Righteousness
PovertyWeakness
Foolishness
Solomon YESTERDAY
ROYAL TRIAD OF DEATHPrivilege, entitlement, exploitation
JeremiahCollision of Perceptions
YAHWEH’S TRIAD OF LIFEWidowOrphan
ImmigrantTHE ALTERNATIVE
To know GodTo love steadfastly
To actively intervene
Jesus of Nazareth
JESUS’ TRIAD OF CONTRADICTION
FoolishnessWeaknessPoverty
THE ALTERNATIVECovenantal solidarity
JusticeRighteousness
Paul from Tarsus
Reiterates Jeremiah as enacted by Jesus
Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.
Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake so that by his poverty you might become rich.
CONSIDER YOUR OWN CALLto allow for God’s holiness
as an active, transformative, dynamic agency in the world.
Solomon TODAYCONTEMPORARY SIGNS
OF DEATHEconomy – too few resources
GluttonyPre-occupation with sex
War
THE ALTERNATIVEHoliness
PainTruthfulness
Practicing the Future
The Exodus story teaches about the meaning & possibility of politics and its proper form
1. Wherever you live, it is probably Egypt.2. There is a better place, a world more attractive, a promised land.3. The way to the land is through the wilderness.4. There is no way to get there except by joining together and marching.
What evolutionary shifts might we want to see in ten years as one family of IHM, or of women religious in general?
Writing from your heart. . .
• Write a personal creed or manifesto. . .– Less than 200 words– What you believe about yourself– Your religious and spiritual beliefs– Your sense of being called– Your purpose– The convictions that will
guide you on your journey
The future lies
before you,
like a spotless tract of snow.
Be careful how you
tread on it,
for every mark will show.
~ Author unknown ~