Andrew McAlister Risking Words
Do we know, deep in us, that we and all of nature have fundamentally ‘good bones’? Can we accept that this essential goodness persists despite how we might see and act, how our fellow humanity might see and act, how all our fellow creatures might see and act?
What is happening now, in this day and age, is a consequence and a reminder that the practice of leaving self behind has not been practiced by enough people. Its value has been lost.
What has meditation got to do with our relationship with Creation?
While Mary’s primary response was to seek the marginalised, Benedict’s was to receive them. Of course, after the seeking there was care and support, so too, after the receiving. In both this seeking and receiving, the marginalised of Benedict’s and Mary’s time were supported.
In the life of a Christian meditator, how might these two mission statements, that of Jesus and of the WCCM, combine? How might an oblate of the WCCM engage this mission statement of Jesus, making it somehow our own?
