"If you are here unfaithfully with us,
You're causing great damage."
Rumi
When we are with others unauthentically, we hurt them and we hurt ourselves. To bring all of who we are to God and to our community is to be in integrity.
Consider those places where you come with less than who you truly are. Ask yourself why you would do that and reflect on what God might want to say to you.
Grace and peace,
Deb
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
integrity
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"Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let the caller and the called disappear;
be lost in the Call." Rumi
Just as Moses, seen as the central figure in the Exodus, is only metioned once in the Haggadah so too shall God be the one remembered and seen in all that occurs in life. We are only asked to be willing to be used authentically by Him. Integrity with whom - God, ourselves, family, friends, faith community, the circles of community we drive in, shop in, send our children to school in? Who is qualified to judge someone else's integrity, our authenticity beyond God? Is there anyone besides Him including ourselves who knows who we truly are within? When we define others by the tiny shards of themselves they dare to share publicly we so often draw conclusions that are shaped by our own history and confine them to a distorted version of reality that is far removed from the unconditional love He calls us to share freely with all. All, beyond sexual orientation, race, color, religion, for we are all sinners, no sin is greater than any other. To learn that acceptance, we have to look no farther than a newborn child whose perceptions are still untainted by this world. Their lives are based solely on faith and trust. Perhaps that is integrity, living fully in trust and faith with Him knowing that no matter what the outcomes of this world the only value is in an authentic, personal relationship with the Father who loves us unconditionally all the time.
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