What is your emotional response to the first section of the reading, "The Shepherd in Search of Lost Obedience"?
Kelly says, "The first step to...obedience...is the flaming vision." (p.179) In what way do you find that vision is the core of an obedient "God-intoxicated life"?
What words, phrases or statements of Kelly's do you find provocative? Write them out for the group.
How do you feel about the word "mystical"? Does it put your closer to God or farther away?
What insight does Kelly offer for your life today?
for next week, January 26:
Richard of St. Victor, Spiritual Classics, p. 184
Richard of St. Victor, Spiritual Classics, p. 184
2 comments:
"Don't grit your teeth and clench your fist and say 'I will! I will!' Relax. Take hands off, submit yourself to God . . . let life be willed through you."
Okay--where do these writers get off telling us to "relax. . . let life be willed . . ." Give me a formula. Give me a recipe. Give me 12 steps. Come on people; we are talking obedience here. where is a cilice when you need one.
Alas, God is grace and grace is messy and grace is flexible and grace is loving and grace is charitable and grace is God. Mortification (clenching fist and grinding teeth) --a human attempt to direct how God is supposed to deal with me.
Veni creator spiritus!
stan+ kcmo
stan, i keep thinking about your comment. i really hate it when people tell me to "just relax"! you have put your finger on both my instinctive urge to control and work and will--and the bewildering, beautiful dynamic of grace. thanks for that.
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