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Transforming Faith Lenten Series St. Jude’s March 10, 2019 Joy Andrews Hayter

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 “Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.” ― Richard Rohr Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 3 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Was it sudden, or gradual? What was it like?  Perhaps you might have felt that it was:  Beyond rational intellect, non-linear  Sense of Presence, Love …The most profound fruit of the transformative process is that the individual…is transformed into one “through whose life Greater Life resounds”. -- Karlfried Gras von Durkheim* * Author of spiritual classic: The Way of Transformation (1971) Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church Heart nebula 4 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” - Mark 12:30-31  “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one — I in them and you in me — so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. - John 17:20-23 Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 5 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 "The physical universe is not a collection of fixed objects but a luminous web of interconnectedness. Space is not an empty container for atoms to bounce around like billiard balls in the air; rather, space is replete with overlapping fields of energy. Nature thrives on local networks of interlocking energy fields.“ -Ilia Delio (Franciscan Sister, Theology professor)   Mystics and scientists see the oneness. It is often called Love. Teilhard de Chardin  Cynthia Bourgeault  Ilia Delio  Beatrice Bruteau  Thomas Merton  Thomas Keating  Richard Rohr  Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 6 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

Storm Reid, in A Wrinkle in Time Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 7 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Relational Field  Flat earth (heaven, hell)  Non-duality (no separation)  Duality (me/you, here/there)  Spiritual journey, contemplative  Church focus: doctrinal dimension of Gospel differences, hierarchy  Basic core of goodness  God displeased with us  Grace inspires our good  Rewards for our good deeds actions  We build right to go to Heaven  Self in God, God everywhere  Self outside of God  Christ unites us with God in  Unworthy of God’s love Love “ THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INDIVIDUAL SALVATION ” -Katharine Jefferts Schori Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church Doomed Star 8 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019 Eta Carinae

 In a sense, asking people that haven’t transformed their consciousness and begun to put the mind in the heart to live the Gospel path, is as insane as picking up a stone and asking it to fly to the sea. We can’t yet. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I think it’s our cumulative covered-up frustration of the fact that we, at 2,000 years into the Christian journal, are clueless about how to put on the mind of Christ. That it’s easier to go to church and talk about it, sing beautiful hymns, and engage in worthy projects [ these are all important! but …] that don’t confront the eye of the needle that will take you through to the unity, which lies so close on the other side. Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 9 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Powerlessness before transformation:  Times of crisis, humbling  Surrender  Small self not working  Security, esteem, power and control  “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.” -Mark 8:34-35 Eric Law: Kaleidoscope Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 10 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 What events, actions bring you to the foot of the cross?  Humility, awe, wonder, surrender to Love  Relating with more of your being than just your head  The arts  Nature  Service  Contemplative practices Mary Souza Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 11 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 “ Consent on the go ”  Movement One: Focus, feel and sink into what you are experiencing this moment in your body.  Movement Two: “WELCOME” what you are experiencing this moment in your body as an opportunity to consent to the Divine Indwelling.  Movement Three: Let go by repeating the following sentence: “I let go of the desire for security, affection, control, and embrace this moment as it is.”  “To welcome and to let go is one of the most radically loving, faith-filled gestures we can make in each moment of each day. It is an open-hearted embrace of all that is in ourselves and in the world.” - Mary Mrozowski Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 12 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Take time to slow down  Mad rush driven by “False self”  Sense of separation  “Never enough” mentality  Security, money  Praise, accomplishment  Power, control  Addictions “ The real problem with any constrictive motion (taking, defending, hoarding, clinging) is that it makes us spiritually blind, unable to see the dance of divine generosity that is always flowing toward us.” -Cynthia Bourgeault Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 13 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Whatever form helps you detach from thinking long enough to find/trust the other intelligence deep inside you. - C Bourgeault  Balance of 3 centers:  Moving, emotional, intellectual  Lectio Divina  Active prayer sentence  (Jesus prayer, mantra)  Chanting  Centering prayer  Body Prayer  Welcoming prayer Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 14 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

It is only with the heart that  Knowing with more of you: Not just one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. intellect, but body, and Heart - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  Non-dual: Sees sense of unity, harmony, connection, patterns  Gift of the spirit  Physical brain changes  Become a transmitter of love!  Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold the new has come! - 2 Corinthians 5:17 Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 15 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Present with sensations  Body Prayer  Prelude:  horizontal and vertical  Hands together  Bow  Receiving  Taking in  Sharing  Grounding Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 16 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 Action: Hold your ground  Not out of anger or self-righteousness  Genuine engagement  Not tied to outcome:  you may never see the fruits  Prayer, in a relational field, affects profoundly  Pray in solidarity with those in action  Contemplation: wait for true calling to act  I am absolutely certain that anyone in any religion or no religion who sincerely commits to the transformative process is changing the world more than they could by any other activity. In due time, they will have particular activities recommended to them by the Spirit as part of their vocation, but the most important work is to work on ourselves . -Thomas Keating Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 17 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 What are you already doing?  Do you love it? Do it with presence  If it drains you, can you let it go?  What might that feel like?  Even the smallest actions, done with genuine engagement, affect the world profoundly Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 18 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

 How about in this present moment?  Not memories of the past or thoughts / plans for the future  Ways I would rather God show love  What I would like to become so God will love me more  So what’s the point of living? As far as I can see, it’s to give God the chance to take over our very complicated human lives and situations completely. Whatever we do is in the service of that project. We don’t have to think about it if we are in the present moment. It is happening.” -Thomas Keating Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church 19 Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019