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I Think God Believes in Cross Pollinating

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jenn Cavanaugh

I Think God Believes in Cross Pollinating.

Christine Sine’s lovely reflection on how God creates diversity in the natural world and in the Church and how we can help cultivate it. When God makes us one as God is one, our unity will have nothing to do with looking alike or moving in lockstep. Just as we see, hear, and feel God reaching out to us “in persons three” who are one in love and intention, so God leads, teaches, and empowers us to fill the earth with every stripe and expression of faith, hope, and love we can make together in response.

Advent Reflection – Day 12

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Jenn Cavanaugh

“The Angel Spreads the Good News to the Shepherds” by Hua Xiaoxian

from “Going to God with the Shepherds”

If you want to go to God, go without

your certainties. Take your graces. Leave

your certainties behind. If you go looking

for a Triangle inside a Trefoil inside

a Conundrum, you’ll miss the greatest sight

of all, the Holy Trinity playing

children’s games on the lawns of heaven. If

you only look for the Virgin of the Window,

you’ll walk right past Our Lady, laughing and telling

stories with a group of friends….

And so

go with the shepherds on their angelic quest.

Go to that hick town that David left

as soon as he got the chance, go to the stable,

see what you never expected to see, the doors

to God opening in that manger against

all certainty….

– Louis William Countryman