@tenshi_anna 4/ Ultimately, patriarchy doesn't fall to revolt but to fulfillment. It isn't emasculated, but outgrown. New World Creation is tantric: heaven of earth, earth of heaven—masculine and feminine not erased but the bridal union of co-arising, regenerative life. The incarnate pattern.
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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@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.