2006<\/a> entry, I took a retreat. During it, I had what I called a \u201cChrist to me,\u201d experience. Because of it, I began to go slowly through The Dialogues as I felt into what this idea of \u201cChrist to me,\u201d had to say. I found this writing in my record of that time. I am talking to Jesus, telling him:<\/b><\/p>\nI wrote some more on <\/span>Creation of the New<\/span><\/i>: the astounding idea of twoness.\u00a0 Then I was inside and read a little of Emily Carr and she\u2019s talking of this place within her heart, where no one, no matter how intimate, gets to be, no one who hasn\u2019t touched her spirit. I feel as if she says more in a paragraph sometimes than I with all my many pages.<\/span><\/p>\nNow back, I pretty much just opened The Dialogues to what I was looking for: (Days 27-29)<\/span><\/p>\nWhat we are speaking of now is being able to experience wholeness and the variability of experience that has come through the separated self of form. This is what you are beginning to do through your practice. Your proficiency will change your experience, and your experience will change the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDay 27.16<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s about bringing forward the reality that already exists into the reality in which you exist, the experience of: \u201cmerging wholeness and separation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDay 29.6<\/span><\/p>\nWhat I feel happens is like this. There are days I feel that Fr. Adrian knows me and touches a knowing within me that rises, so that there is knowing and being known. That\u2019s what happens with the \u201choly ones\u201d who are \u201con\u201d \u2013 whether they\u2019re writing or speaking, whether it\u2019s one-on-one or not. There\u2019s a <\/span>feeling <\/span><\/i>of knowing and being known that goes beyond identification with the personal and is still absolutely personal, so that you know the person is talking \u201cuniversal\u201d truth, but you feel it as if it is meant for your ears only, in this sort of \u201cprivate\u201d way \u2013 maybe because it\u2019s taken so far in \u2013 or it just has that ability to go really deep within you to that center where recognition takes place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAs Cletus (Fr. Cletus Wessels) says, \u201cIt isn\u2019t a monologue it\u2019s a dialogue.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe absolute ultimate in human satisfaction, joy, is in the feeling that is a feeling of really <\/span>living<\/span><\/i> that comes of that joining \u2013 which is the dialogue rather than the monologue \u2013 the union rather than the separation \u2013 whether it is human to God or human to nature or man to dog or woman to cat or friend to friend.\u00a0 There\u2019s just no getting around that.\u00a0 Without \u201ctwo\u201d there just isn\u2019t that joining.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0It is the joining rather than the oneness that is the cool thing, the alive thing. As if each little joining of parts is this lovely, lovely happening that is the essence of being alive. When you\u2019re at work on joining the pieces of your psyche there might be this frustration. But when something clicks, falls into place, there is growth and movement and satisfaction. And then you go to work on the next piece and the next, and each piece that gets connected is an increase of LIFE in the movement to wholeness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe dialogue is about people of Christ getting together to give spirit form \u2013 knowingly. That, you say, is the beginning from which increase and fruitfulness will spring. You practice there. You gain the ability there that becomes a way of being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt seems as if the \u201cmaking things happen\u201d is more like making something <\/span>of what<\/span><\/i> happened already<\/span><\/i>. At least for me. Something of significance happens and you don\u2019t ignore that it\u2019s happened or treat it as if it is a finite thing.\u00a0 Like\u2026oh, that happened that day and it becomes nothing more than a memory. The day Mary Love \u201cannounced\u201d the a \u201cNew course of Miracles\u201d to me could have been like that if I hadn\u2019t recognized it as an announcement that I was to heed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI made something of it \u2013 by which I guess I mean that I let it influence me and my direction. If you don\u2019t do that, wouldn\u2019t it be like a person of your time saying \u2013 \u201cOh yes I met the great man.\u00a0 He was really something,\u201d and then going on with their life unchanged? Isn\u2019t the whole thing about a sacred event that it sends out ripples that change the world, even if you don\u2019t know quite how??\u00a0 Don\u2019t you have to know, to recognize, that it affects you? Isn\u2019t that the whole thing?\u00a0 You recognize that it is a call to you? A direction? An orientation? A way? A new way to be in the world? And then you ACT on it? It doesn\u2019t just remain in your head or part of your inner life. It becomes manifest in the world.<\/span><\/p>\nI understand staying with immediacy. But if you don\u2019t ever acknowledge that you\u2019ve been re-routed, there\u2019s never a significant change. If I hadn\u2019t acknowledged my re-routing there\u2019d be no course, then no solitude, no cabin, no dialogue, no \u201cChrist to me\u201d and however that\u2019s going to keep showing up.<\/span><\/p>\nAnyway \u2013 because of <\/span>Creation of the New,<\/span><\/i> I suppose, I\u2019m hung up on the mutual side of things. Mutual acknowledgment. Mutual recognition. Mutual acceptance of a shared experience. Mutual re-routing.<\/span><\/p>\nLike when Christie (Lord) accepted that we were in rebirth together. A few phone calls a week might not have seemed like any big deal but it was.\u00a0 We accepted being in a time of rebirthing \u201ctogether.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nLeading back to the question: What does it mean to be joined <\/span>in your name. <\/span><\/i>What does it mean to be Christ to each other? What is the deal with the unnamed acceptance where things happen but there\u2019s no agreement about what happened or what it means or where it is sending you? Do you have to be always and forever alone in your work for God?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a mystery. It is a mystery why there is that preference, that chemistry\u2014so that with one\u00a0 person it\u2019s easy and with another you ride all the ups and downs and complain about them and yet stick with them and remember that they took you higher.<\/span><\/p>\nJesus, you said to me once:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nPeople are at different places in their lives, relating to \u201ctheir\u201d lives\u2014and you are here, relating to \u201cour\u201d life when you are not too busy thinking about \u201ctheir lives.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nThis is what you see and what pains you. Everyone running around relating to their own lives. What of joining? What of union? What of twoness and dialogue? What of coming together? Coming together in Christ?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nYou felt hungry enough for that acknowledgement that you felt it in church. It was like a revelation \u2013 the most simple aspect of Christian life \u2013 gathering as people of Christ. Being Christ to each other. You are like Angie (my daughter) after sharing a life of Christ at camp, not wanting to let it slip away. Wanting to live within that continual acknowledgment.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nDo you not have that here? Why else would you be here?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nIt is, in truth, twoness that has you a little disenchanted with this life we share and wishing for another with whom to share it. Another and another with whom it would grow. Sacred twoness. Sharing the Christ life one human person to another.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nBut you don\u2019t want to give this up! You don\u2019t want to live down at church or volunteer for activities! You don\u2019t want any of your friends over all the time.\u00a0 You have more movement than you can handle now! And this is because \u201cyour\u201d life is different. Christie has her life and her relating to do.\u00a0 Mary hers.\u00a0 Don (Turk) his. You yours. You want to get together a little, but not a lot. Why might this be?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nSo that you dwell.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nSo that you dwell with what comes to you. You have to be unafraid of this taking time, of this dwelling, with spending years knowing one \u201csmall\u201d thing \u2013 for in the One known through and through is everything. Do not let twoness rush you.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\u00a0Accept it when it comes.\u00a0 Dwell with what comes.\u00a0 Stay in peace.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Christ and the Indwelling What of joining? What of union? What of twoness and dialogue? What of coming together? Coming together in Christ? ~ Jesus Shortly after my last 2006<\/a> entry, I took a retreat. During it, I had what I called a \u201cChrist to me,\u201d experience. 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