The Ocean of the Lord

20.06.2006

Oscillating

First comes Jesus Christ -- you go to Him, stay with Him, celebrate Him in the Holy and Glorious Mass, in his sacrament of reconciliation.

But then you take a step out of Him and encounter empirical reality -- sounds, sights, forms, colours, tastes, that whole original revelation of the Father, whose children we become as we surf those waves of experience.

And then, well, we oscillate between those two poles. We really don't need much more. That is oceanic simplicity. Of course, when you go to work you have to do the world, so to speak. But that is just a limited time, and a limited version of reality, like some type of waves you encounter everyday. By experiencing the motion of the waves you make work a graceful exercise -- as best you can.

As soon as you come home from work, actually the minute you leave your office or your place of work, you can start oscillating between Him and these energy waves of empirical experience. Prayer and surfing his Creation is the same thing, keeping sin out as best we can.

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11.06.2006

Emotions

Oceanic Christianity is not emotionalism, basing faith entirely on emotion or sentiment. But emotions will follow the passion for diving into the light of Christ.

Diving means using the body. It is not a purely spiritual dive. The body means emotions, organically caused, organically experienced, nerves and muscles partaking in mistakes and in sucessful intentions. Another word for organic emotions is passion.

We will always experience the difference between demons harassing the body and the sweet Holy Spirit gushing forth through our bodies in prayer and devotion. Both are passions. The rest St Paul often talks about is a dynamic flowing rest, not an absence of emotions. A passionate rest, a peaceful fire.

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10.06.2006

Sin

Sin exists.

No doubt about that - sin fills our time, forms our society, hinders our relation. There's no denying it.

But when you look into the constant rolling wave of Gods love for you and Jesus Christ in his operation of saving you now -- do you really think about sin? Should you really think about sin? Would you think about it in the midst of the light and the sound of this great rolling ocean?

Psychologically speaking -- no ! You simply cannot surfe and think about sin at the same time. You simply cannot listen to Jesus as he speaks his saving Word in your very body now, and also think about sin.

So not possible in practical terms. Your intentionality is what shows. Where should your intention be? On the sound and the sight of the Lord, so that you are dazzled away from all other intentions.

Intend the Ocean of the Lord -- sin is forgiven.