Jennifer Kavanagh’s parallel universe

In Friends Jour­nal, a look at the mys­ti­cal depths of creation:

To live in the world is an explic­it prac­ti­cal accep­tance of the dynam­ic nature of the Spir­it. Our rela­tion with God is not in iso­la­tion, apart from our fel­low beings; as we are blessed, so we too are able to bless. The Spir­it works on us to enable us to give some­thing of what we have received to oth­ers, to act as a mir­ror. So it is that God works not only direct­ly but through human beings, each upon anoth­er. As we open our hearts and receive, so we give to and receive from oth­er peo­ple. How we relate to the world and to oth­er human beings is part of how we relate to God. 

I like the empha­sis on bal­ance she talks about toward the end, “Spir­it with­out mat­ter is as unbal­anced as mat­ter with­out Spir­it, which is materialism.”

Posted May 12th, 2020 , in Quaker.