@FrontPorchRepub 6/ This is co-creation: the long mutual labor by which world and worker are both, slowly, transfigured. The corner-post goes in. The ones who set it are not quite the souls who began. What is being made includes the new patience in our hands, the new humility behind our eyes.
@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 22/ God prepared the works beforehand that we should walk in them (Eph 2:10)—the good work isn't optional decoration but constitutive of new creation itself. We are fellow workers (1 Cor 3:9), given the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:17-20): makers of what God is making new.
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Beautifully stated, Norman. 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? Hence, the anthropogenic dynamism of New World Creation - the deep ecology of peacemaking effecting and requiring an integral, intra-realm response to a symbiotic eco-cultural challenge. Jim Wallis: "Jesus didn’t say, “Blessed are the peace-lovers.” He said, “peace-makers". Day Six. New World Creation as the arc of the moral universe bending irrevocably towards the dynamic reconciliation of path, justice and peace? Prophetic earthwork secures the teleology in the natural, immediate sequence of a concrete, native journey into Beauty’s deepest ground.
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