CARING FOR A GOD WHO CARES

3/19/2011

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CARING FOR A GOD WHO CARES 
By Arun Gogna



This is a reflection I read from Didache, a scripture reading guide published by Shepherd's Voice publication. Health is beyond the physical and it is not just the absence of disease or illness. Health is wholistic---covering all areas of a person's life including the Spiritual. 

I found this reflection very inspiring and spiritually nourishing. You may find them here. I pray that you will be filled with the needed resource as well.

Joseph, her husband, was a righteous man. – Matthew 1:19 

Imagine with me if you can... let’s go back in time and travel to Nazareth.Put yourself in the shoes (or sandals) of Joseph. Imagine you are the earthly father of Jesus.The reason for all creation was born in your midst.You are tasked to protect the very God to whom you pray for protection. You will be providing for the needs of the Great Provider.As your son’s first teacher, you will teach Him everything you know. You will teach to the God who knows everything.You will carry the one who carries the whole world in His arms.You are going to play hide and seek with God who sees everything.You will put to sleep someone you hope never goes to sleep.You will be able to make God laugh.These are some of the wonderful thingsJoseph did to his Son, Jesus.Think: Jesus says that you can do all this to Him if you do them to the least of your brothers. Arun Gogna ([email protected]) 
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Ash Wednesday, Dustification and the End of the World

3/8/2011

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Ash Wednesday, Dustification and the End of the World
Dustification of the Creation


By PROFESSOR ANTON MEEMANA
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Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lent, is not a day for misery and self-pity, but a day for
deep repentance and radical conversion. Ash Wednesday is ready to take away our ashen
faces. Ash Wednesday is a day of aspiration, assistance, assurance and ascent towards
spiritual magnanimity.

Humans are earthly creatures through and through and our destiny is organically and
necessarily tied up with the health and happiness of the earth. We are not flying creatures
such as eagles, crows, hawks, parrots and mocking birds. This fantasy about space travels
and colonizing other planets is a very comforting illusion and can at best become an escape
from our earthly, clayish, ashy, soily, dusty and fleshy reality. 

Even if we develop the technological capability to settle down in another planet, what guarantee would we have that we are not going to destroy it the way we have plundered, raped and devastated the mother earth?

What is fundamentally and very urgently required of us is transformation of our
consciousness and our daily lifestyles, not so much space exploration for exploitative
enterprises. Earth is our second skin without which human life is absolutely impossible. 

Our malnourished and anorexic perspective on dust is gathering dust and it is high time to dust it
off. The one who cherishes the earth cherishes the universe entire. By the same token, the one
who destroys the earth destroys the universe entire. The enemies of the earth are the enemies
of God and the friends of the earth are friends of God too.
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