@WelshRev @HaddenTurner Surprise, Illich avers, is the structure of messianic experience. Checking in with fundamentally Christian homesteaders/farmers/regenerative designers gifts us a wellspring of graced testaments to the manifest fullness, richness and plenitude of New World Creation in practice.
@Sophiologist_ Reality-based, practical metaphysics going deeper? Perfect poetry, isn't it? If we have a future, it'll be integral and regenerative - the Wedding of Heaven and Earth, and Earth and Heaven and, at its dynamic, loving heart, marriage and family togethered as an Edenic love affair.
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It has certainly been my experience that where the profound personalization of my own identity integrates with a particularized habitat, the infinite surge brings me into depth-resonance with other women and men also on the path to a ‘homecoming to wholeness’, wherever they are settling. But what unfolds when two hearts become wedded intimately to a shared journey into the same piece of ground? Upon that threshold where Gaian lovers seek inclusion and compensation with the deep ecologies of landscape and all that lives, do we ultimately come home to a circle of Belonging where the distance from isolation to intimacy is bridged by Creation’s love for us, as much as ours for it?