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Date: October 12, 2023 at 08:20:12
From: Nevada, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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Richard Rohr reflects on the prophetic task of
integrating our individual and collective memories,
which creates the conditions for hope within us:
Memory is very often the key to understanding. Memory
integrates, reconciles, and puts the individual members
into perspective as a part of the whole.... For us to
recognize what God is doing and therefore who God is,
we must pray like Paul “that your love may more and
more abound, both in understanding and wealth of
experience” (Philippians 1:9)....
Our remembrance that God has remembered us will be the
highway into the future, the straight path of the Lord
promised by John the Baptizer [see Luke 3:3–6]. Where
there is no memory, there will be no pain, but neither
will there be hope. Memory is the basis of both the
pain and the rejoicing. We need to re-member both of
them; it seems that we cannot have one without the
other. Do not be too quick to “heal all of those
memories,” unless that means also feeling them deeply
and taking them all into our salvation history. God
seems to be calling us to suffer the whole of reality,
to remember the good along with the bad. Perhaps that
is the course of the journey toward new sight and new
hope. Memory creates a readiness for salvation, an
emptiness to receive love, and a fullness to enjoy
it....
Only in an experience and a remembering of the good do
we have the power to stand against this death [caused
by evil]. As Baruch tells Jerusalem, we must “rejoice
that you are remembered by God” [5:5]. In that
remembrance we have new sight, and the evil can be
absorbed and blotted out.
It takes a prophet of sorts, one who sees clearly, one
who has traveled the highway before, one who remembers
everything, to guide us beyond our blocked, selective,
and partial remembering: “Jerusalem, take off your robe
of mourning and misery; put on the splendor of glory
from God forever” [Baruch 5:1]. Choose your friends
carefully and listen to those who speak truth to you
and help you remember all things....
Ask God for companions (sometimes Jesus alone!) who
will walk the highway of remembering with you, filling
in the valleys and leveling the mountains and hills,
making the winding ways straight and the rough ways
smooth. Then humankind shall see the salvation of God.
The repentance that the Baptist calls us to is one of
remembering, and of remembering together, and then
bearing the consequences of that remembrance. It is no
easy matter, for the burden of re-membering is great.
But we must try for the sake of truth....
So “Up Jerusalem! Stand upon the heights; look to the
east and see” your whole life. See what God has given
freely. [Our] hope lies hidden in the past. “And
rejoice that you are remembered by God” [Baruch 5:5].
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Date: October 12, 2023 at 23:52:08
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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Good & bad remembered can help anyone who makes the choice to bring
joy again, & again. the most wonderful moments, & ease the bitter of any
bad. Bu the Grace of God I was pulled more to learning from the good &
bad. .
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Date: October 15, 2023 at 08:29:29
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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my memory goes back to before the time i was born
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Date: October 17, 2023 at 07:37:53
From: blindhog 6th sense, [DNS_Address]
Subject: In a Way, Our Instinct is a Built-in Memory of the Past and... |
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...IS a sort of memory bank of parts of
everyone who came before us, their heart,
their skin, their brain, etc.
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Date: October 15, 2023 at 20:18:48
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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Bragging about it does no good either
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Date: October 16, 2023 at 11:47:42
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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The Bible says NOT TO BRAG about the gifts God has given you.
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Date: October 19, 2023 at 11:29:59
From: Elaine, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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I didn't get that he was bragging - just stating a fact.
Some people do remember that far back; it's rare, though.
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Date: October 19, 2023 at 15:06:21
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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To each his own. That’s not the first time he’s posted that fact. Like he is
more special than most.
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Date: October 20, 2023 at 23:59:34
From: Elaine, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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I'm thankful I DON'T have that good a memory! lol
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Date: October 15, 2023 at 20:16:41
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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It’s like people speaking in tongs. It’s a gift from God but no one can
interpret what it means. Just like remembering before you came to earth.
I means nothing but to you.
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Date: October 15, 2023 at 20:11:05
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Remembering our hope... where good and difficult work together |
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