RT @nick_routledge: @Plough Goodness, what a tremendously eloquent, lucid, illuminating and inspiring witness. It seems to me our final threshold to cross is 'getting down together', a complete form of homecoming in which heaven and earth dynamically, synchronously and resurrectively complete one another.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Revelation 21:3 and Catherine Keller Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: And I heard / And let everyone / Facing Apocalypse Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1852734100274315284 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. These aerial photos of our property were taken 22 years apart. The first one was the week Chris & I landed here in Australia. The second was a few months ago, after almost 18 years of implementing regenerative agriculture strategies. The land heals, gives back, & sustains. [Before and after images, from sparse to verdant] Goodness, what a planetary light you've become to the purposive romanticism of Gardener Kings and Queens of the New Creation, Norann. Such a blessing to our world, your portrait of the fruits of love fully inhabited and a life, fully incarnate. So thankful for your presence here. Quote tweet: Goodness, what a tremendously eloquent, lucid, illuminating and inspiring witness. It seems to me our final threshold to cross is 'getting down together', a complete form of homecoming in which heaven and earth dynamically, synchronously and resurrectively complete one another. "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals….” Rev. 21: 3. Catherine Keller: "Could we, some critical mass of the species that has trashed the earth, yet recognize it as 'cosmic sanctuary'?" “And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’” It is as though we must yet call God, Messiah, the new cosmopolis down to earth. Their triune "coming” requires our calling them down. In other words, their immanence needs our invitation. Not metaphysically—if what we name divine signifies an infinity, a boundlessness, it is always already everywhere anyway. But apparently this theotopia needs our invitation in order to matter, to materialize, among us. We can no longer separate the life that “comes” from our becoming lives. This new creation won't happen without our desire, our collusion, our creativity. Its renewed and renewing waters and woods, its actually habitable habitats, wild, rural, urban, star-sparkled, depend upon our collective calling. Up to us to get down together, to get down to earth with that whole ancient bridal party. Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Catherine Keller
Open original document@AimeTim 2/ Ultimately, praying isn't enough. Only so far as we actively participate in the radical indigeneity of a form of hope whereby we and the world neighbor one another, do we truly come home to the Resurrection Body of our salvation. Homemaking as homecoming, with better weather.
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to @brianmclaren 2/ Gutiérrez: "The preferential options for the earth and the poor are inseparable from each other.” Castillo: “To be understood as central to Christian reflection and action, the relationship between these concerns and the mystery of salvation must be made evident." When salvation means removal from the earth to a heavenly home, then our home is abandoned to the assaults of those whose ultimate concern is neither heaven nor earth, but the power and wealth of their particular households. These households drain heaven and earth of what used to be called their “glory” - their energy, their beauty, their disclosiveness, and their adequacy to the needs of the whole. This makes for lousy weather. Catherine Keller I was much taken by your observation, "Hope is born when love goes to work," as a corollary to Gibran: "Work is love made visible." I'm curious if you're alert to the 'messianic-hope-come-to-ground' enfleshed in America's prophetic earthwork movement?