Essay on "Spirituality Following Reading the Work Entitled Meeting"

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Spirituality

Following reading the work entitled "Meeting the Incarnate God" this work will explain how the spiritual life, as proposed in this text has meaning for everyday Christian living.

The work entitled "Meeting the Incarnate God: From the Human Depth to the Mystery of Fidelity" was published in 2009 by the Holy Cross Orthodox Press. This work was written by Metropolitan Phillip and Father Joseph Allen. Metropolitan Phillip writes "

Lord, What shall I offer you at your Incarnation in return for your infinite love… Lord, You have been knocking on my door for many years, but I never dared to let you in because my garment is not white as snow… Lord, the only thing I can offer you at your Incarnation is myself… (Meditation on the Incarnation by Metropolitan Phillip)

The excerpts from a poem by Philip on Christ' Incarnation was the beginning of the reflective meditations that Metropolitan Philip and Father Joseph Allen wrote together for the purpose of capturing and communicating "the great theological concepts of the Christian East in a mode that every person rather than only theologians can understand." (2009 cited in Hester, 20312, p.31)

I. Focus of the Meditations

The meditations contained in Philip and Allen's work have as their focus the presence of God and the gift that this presence is in the life and actions of mankind and focuses as well on man's need to be close to God and to be responsive to God. The first part of the reflections have as their focus on the "inner depths of the human person as the potential and the way to come to meet the living God who dwells within us." (Hester, 2012, p.31) Each individual has been created in the grace of God and through this grace, when the individual surrenders to God the individual is able to experience the indwelling presence of God. This involves the individual emptying themselves representative of when Jesus said "Sell it; if you would follow me, sell it. One resists selling it when he is enslaved to it…" (Phillip and Allen, 2009 cited in Hester, 2012, p.31)

II. Surrender and Disclosure -- Emptiness and Unity

The meditations entitled "Surrender and Disclosure" and "Emptiness and Unity" involves the presentation of the challenges of surrendering oneself and presents a challenge to the fulfillment of self-surrender "in the acceptance of the other, and to receiving the gift of life in Christ." (cited in Hester, 2012, p.31)

II. Jesus

In the last meditation in the first part of the work of Philip and Allen entitled "Jesus" a powerful description of the encountering of Christ residing in our depths is presented and how it is necessary to "experience like the child and the poet." (cited in Hester, 2012, p.31) Examined in this meditation is the meaning of coming into the presence of the Lord in "childlike and poetic ways." (cited in Hester, 2012, p.31) This reflection serves to bind the two words cohesively through reminiscing that a "child is a poet who has not been taught." (cited in Hester, 2012, p.31) Additionally stated is a poet "is a child who has not been spoiled."… READ MORE

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