Day 407 Aprill 27th 2021

My hope for our near future lies in those who are waking up to this Divine DNA that was there from the start—especially amid the painful experiences of life.

I believe my first real spiritual experience happened when I was probably five years old. I was alone in the living room of our home in Kansas and only the Christmas tree was lit. I had the sense that the world was good, I was good, and I was part of the good world—and I just wanted to stay there. It was like being taken to another world—the real world, the world as it’s meant to be, where the foundation is love and God is in everything.

I remember feeling very special, very chosen, very beloved, and it was my secret. The rest of my family didn’t know what I was knowing—see how my ego was already getting involved? Like the Apostle Paul, I now believe that chosenness is for the sake of letting everybody else know they are chosen, too.

My hope for our near future lies in those who are waking up to this Divine DNA that was there from the start—especially amid the painful experiences of life. We must all move through the universal pattern of Order, Disorder, and Reorder, and we must do it again and again and again.

By choosing a life of simplicity, service, generosity, and even powerlessness, we can move forward trusting both Love and Mystery. We don’t need to be perfectly certain before taking the next step.

Our job is to be who we say we are and who God says we are—carriers of the divine image. “My deepest me is God,” as St. Catherine of Genoa said. I can only imagine how differently our lives, families, and nations would look if we trusted the foundational promise of Christian incarnation. When you can see Christ in all things (including yourself!), you will see and live differently.

- Richard Rohr

POEM

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.

I want to be light and frolicsome.

I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,

as though I had wings.”

― Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

SONGS

CHANTICLEER: O Frondens Virga by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGXXrUvNzec&list=RDI7wwIM8tazI&index=5

Hildegard von Bingen - symphoniae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvfc9BYkXWw&list=RDI7wwIM8tazI&start_radio=1

Announcement: Meeting CANCELLED

Event by Center for Community Engagement at Sonoma State University

Meeting CANCELLED

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Online: sonomastate.zoom.us

Tomorrow at 6:30 PM PDT – 8:30 PM PDT

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Presented by Sonoma State University Koret Scholars and sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement: a forum on the Black Lives Matter Movement and Policing in Sonoma County -- free and open to the public. This forum includes a panel of interviewees to discuss Black Lives Matter, policing, and experiences during the Summer 2020 protests in Sonoma County.