Resonant Reading (Saturday)-The Way of Paradox-Smith
Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
The reading for this session: Saturday (11/16 at 4PM)
Religion withers at the heart when it becomes too domesticated, when its God has become tame, docile, and entirely safe. The God of Abraham was not like that, nor the God of Moses, still less the God whom Jesus addressed as ‘Father’–to serve their God was to embark upon an adventure, in which almost anything might happen. Safety and security have their own appeal, but on their own they cannot fully satisfy.
—Cyprian Smith, OSB [Order of Saint Benedict] (From Cyprian Smith, The Way of Paradox: Spiritual life as taught by Meister Eckhart, p. 31.)
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Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.
*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:
- connect to something of supreme importance to us
- feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
- feel more intensely alive
- align our lives with our values,
- perceive or feel more deeply
- be more fully and authentically ourselves.