- had a great phone convesation with my cousin, Melanie last night. She is part of Madonna House, a community of lay and ordained folks living vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. We talked about many things, but she said two things which i'm chewing on right now:
1. The greatest posture of love is the posture Jesus took on the cross; it's all gift; you can't cling to anything, or grasp at anything when your arms are that stretched out; and you will inevitably get crucified when you love like that. But that true posture of love doesn't depend on whether you recieve anything in return.
2. People put their eyes to Jerusalem (spiritually speaking here), and all of our focus is on that. But we don't journey to Jerusalem FROM Nazareth - the place of unassuming nothingness; the place where the world looks as says, "what good could come out of that?"; the place of humility.
- So i'm trying to journey to Jerusalem now, but starting from Nazareth.
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When I came across this I was reminded of an article I read on Charles De Foucald here.
The author writes:
"An ex-monk who walked to the Holy Land seeking a life hidden with Christ, the now-Blessed Charles de Foucauld found that Nazareth wasn't a place on the map—but a geography of the spirit and the heart."
May we also have the courage to begin there on our road to the heavenly Jerusalem.
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