129.02: privileged time of retreat and incarnate it

SEEL #129.02: LOVE CONTEMPLATION: 

DAY 6 praising God, who is the source of all goodness 

The heart has a voice too

The heart overtakes the head voice in experience 

The fruit of the spirit has self-control

Focus On The, voice of Jesus coming from my heart instead of thinking

 Love of God - - in our experience of God's overwhelming love to inform and empower our lives going forward.

1. first beloved creatures of God
2. Second heard the call of Jesus to ministry of love
3. Third in mercy, and reconciliation stood totally suffering with him
4. Fourth rejoicing with him in the triumph
• we see the world in light of God's love. 
• Our hearts aflame with generosity, freedom, and passion. 

Ignatius offers two critical insights:

1. "Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words" 
2. "Love consists in a mutual communication between the two persons" 
   
   
   

God enjoys a certain mutuality. God wants our friendship. God wants to be known by us. These divine desires are the source of our desire to know, love, and serve God.

1. God loves us into existence 
2. God sustains us in love. 
3. God loves us first. 
4. God's love by nature overflows into ALL the world 

In the contemplation that follows these observations, we first consider how God loves us into existence and sustains us in love. All is possible because God loves us first. This love by nature overflows into the world  ==> we naturally want to return the favor by praising, loving, and serving God and helping others. "standing before God our Lord, and also before the angels and saints,"

wow DAY 6 is about Praise! WOW, what a week. Wow what the last two weeks have been is just beyond comprehension. Yes it is Supreme and Infinite Power raining down like the Sunshine as justice, goodness, piety, mercy, and it is all from source. I see this Love clearly flowing into the depths of my reality. With all things-in all creation and all people giving me this reflection of God's LOVE EACH DAY.

Now to talk about this experience this week . . . Monday I invited Ben to USF and a spontaneous Tour of Tampa. WOW, we both witnessed Synchronicity followed by Opportunity and then another Synchronicity followed by Opportunity again. The whole day was blessing after Blessing where it was obvious everything was planned and set from the start. . . like I forgot to bring my transcripts and Ben suggested we could visit one of my old Prof's to print fresh. 

Perfect so we visited the Patel College: Kebreak, Shirly and Randy all welcomed us and chatted  . . . preparing us for the next meeting. Then Dirk was in his office and Ben and Dirk had Europe connections where our conversations were clear, compassionate, and powerful!  More and more coincidence and code named "God"incidence was more accurate.

Then we finally got to the Dean's Office and he arrived on his Bike, greaeting us at the door: Meet "BEN" buddy from church who came for the Tampa Tour. "Oh Sten this is Ben, Ben it's Sten" what a wonderful laugh to start our walk back into the Dean Suite. . . WOW! 

DAY 7: Savor the graces of the week. 

WOW: The day will come harnessing space, winds, tides, gravitation, we shall harness God's LOVE energies  And, DISCOVER for the second t

ime that God has given time of retreat and incarnate our own lives.

WOW! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericrrweaver_usf-activity-7488188758069227520-8IQD

And this one is even better: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stars2man_yes-its-only-one-system-and-the-divide-ugcPost-7488357792379162625-OXGg

Seeking my own voice in LOVE of Christ. Where we honor the Love of God with active prayer, asking God for HIS Perspective.