Saturday, January 10, 2009

There is a balance...

My friend annie says that we are the Infinite individualized. Keith has often used the phrase that there is a balance in things...
The balance in the Christ as us/in us teachings?  I think we have to remember that we are not all of God...but that he is the essence of us.  If we don't acknowledge this spirit within us, like the poor mistaken bird in the story below we will never soar.  However, we must remember that in him we live and move and have our being.  If we get too "uppity" and forget that it is he who sustains us, fuels us, forms our life's essence then I think the inevitable outcome is that we fall.  He truly is the air beneath our wings.  He upholds us with his right hand...because we are his offspring.....

A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked.

"That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth--we're chickens."

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.
From the book Awareness, by Anthony de Mello, S.J.

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