Entangled Prayer Week 3: Christ is Alive!

Christ is the

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in which we all live and breathe and have our being.  It connects us, comforts us, inspires us, heals us, moves us, woos us. Christ is that aspect of God that is always on the move everywhere, in everything, the Source of ongoing creative energy, novelty, ingenuity. Much larger than the focus of God’s presence on one leader (the classic rendering of Messiah-Christ), and even bigger than the individualistic anointing, Christ represents that other element, the this-ness of life. When we wake up to that, we enter reality differently. We see the world differently. We see ourselves differently – more graceful – and do the same for others. Ego takes a back seat in favor of something much deeper and greater. Our vision for life expands from self-centeredness alone to a deep respect for the wisdom of loving our neighbors as ourselves – we realize we must pursue both. Realizing we are all – everything – swimming in the same sea, we lend and direct the flow of Christ beyond ourselves toward everyone and everything.  In this we join Christ, adding to the creative, healing work, unkinking our hose, and allowing the love to flow. We become joyful conduits of love, light, grace – Christ.