Andrew McAlister Risking Words
We have co-created not as God creates. Collectively, we still see and act too much as if ego is our original nature. It is not. It is, ultimately, a self-centred distortion of Reality.
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.
