PRAY - MEDITATE - SURRENDER - LOVE
Radical Love
Living in Relationship with God
He is already here,
Closer than breath,
Waiting to be received.
GOD - THE FATHER OF ALL CREATION
MAKES US ALL THAT WE ARE AND ALL THAT WE CAN BE THROUGH HIS GRACE
Of all His creatures, only we humans separate ourselves from God with our thoughts, words, emotions, and actions. That's because we are the only living creatures who can exercise Free Will to make choices to either turn away from Him or to bring ourselves into communion and loving relationship with God.
GOD LOVES US
"What we think of as our search for God is, in reality, a response to the Divine Lover drawing us to himself. There is never a moment when Divine Love is not at work. . . . This work is nothing other than a giving of the divine Self in love. The logical consequence for us must surely be that our part is to let ourselves be loved, let ourselves be given to, let ourselves be worked upon by this great God and made capable of total union with Him".
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From the book "Essence of Prayer" by RUTH BURROWS
A Contemporary Carmelite Nun
God seeks our openness to and receptivity of His Love as much as we desire to be loved and in relationship with Him. His merciful and unceasing Radical Love is His gift to us, freely given as unmerited favor or GRACE.
God does not love us because we are good and that we 'deserve' it. He loves us as we are because that is His nature and He wants us to be free to love ourselves and each other. He created us in His image and came to experience us as Jesus Christ, who was fully human and fully divine. In His humanity, Jesus modeled a life of humility, compassion, love, joy, spiritual warriorship, and peace. He taught us to be forgiving and merciful, and sacrificed Himself to the will of the Father so that we might live as a Divine Humanity on earth, clearing the way to eternal life before the Glory of God in Heaven.
God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
Romans 5:5
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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 4: 7-8
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us".
St. Augustine
We gain an understanding of God and His plan for us through the Scriptures. We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit when we receive the Sacraments. We learn how to live holy lives through the teachings of Jesus and by living in community. Through reconciliation and prayer we develop a personal relationship with God as we ask for forgiveness and forgive and commune with Him so that we might get to know God with our hearts and souls. We seek His guidance and within the silence of our contemplative Hearts, we listen for His response, surrender to His Will, and receive His Grace
"The more we surrender to God, the more luminous, beautiful, and human we become".
Bishop Robert Barron
God embodied Himself as Jesus, who was fully divine and fully human, so that we might witness, interact with, and learn from Him as one of us. Jesus modeled how God had intended us to be prior to our fall from Grace, that is TO BE LOVE ITSELF
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It is through Him, and only through Him, that our humanity is healed, elevated, and drawn into intimate communion with the divine life of the TRINITY: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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Christ is the bridge—the incarnate Son in whom God and humanity are forever united.
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His Living Presence is not abstract or symbolic; it is real, active, and sacramental—especially in the Eucharist, where He offers Himself to us as true food and true drink, that we might live in Him and He in us (cf. John 6:56).
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He is human and divine—not a man who became God, but God who became man, making the human capable of bearing divine life through GRACE.
To allow Him to transform us is to SURRENDER to the process of SANCTIFICATION:
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It is to become what we receive in the Eucharist: the Body of Christ.
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It is to participate in His love, obedience, suffering, and glory.
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It is to be conformed not just morally, but mystically—to become vessels of DIVINE LOVE, dwelling in communion with the Triune God.
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This is not a loss of our humanity, but its fulfillment—what the Church Fathers called theosis or divinization. We are not absorbed into God, but made fully ALIVE in Him, becoming more truly ourselves.
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Thus, Divine Humanity is not a status we claim, but a mystery we enter. It is the fruit of COMMUNION, HUMILITY, and GRACE. Christ alone is the source—and HIS LIVING PRESENCE within us is the flame that transforms.
Nourished in Sacrament and Deepened in Silence,
the Spirit Draws Us into the Divinity and Heart of Jesus Christ.
My Thoughts on the Catholic Faith, Mysticism, and the Church
I believe that through God's mercy and grace we might all aspire to some aspect of sainthood that will be unique to each of us. I'm not referring to piety or martyrdom, miracles or visions, becoming missionaries, or even caring for the sick and poor but ordinary people who live out our everyday lives with virtue truly loving God and communing heart to heart with others, however that manifests.
I became a lay apostle/priest within the mystical body of Christ's church when I converted and was confirmed a Catholic. Obviously that's different from an ordained priest who officiates over the sacraments and oversees a parish but all who are baptized and confirmed as Catholics are consecrated to sanctify all by their being and actions in the secular world.*
(Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 783-784, 1303-1305; Priesthood of the Laity)
Ordained bishops, priests, and deacons are essential to the continuation of the living tradition of the Catholic Church through the sacraments as the bearers of Christ’s lineage but Jesus never intended for the rest of us to be idle sheep in spite of the analogies to the shepherd and His flock.
Every Christian is an apostle of Jesus and His Church and has been enlivened with the Holy Spirit through their baptism and confirmation. Men and young women of the Catholic church can discern religious vocations and couples a marital vocation, while the laity at large, male and female, young and old, married and single, as inspired and guided by the Holy Spirit, the liturgy, and the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist, is called today to keep Christ's divinity and holy humanity alive within the Church and in every human soul. (CCC 1285, 1302)
This is especially important in light of the aging and dwindling numbers of religious and especially ordained Catholic priests perpetuated, in part, by divine order that the lineage of Jesus Christ can only be passed on through men. Pope Francis, however, acknowledged that “Lay people, and especially women, need to be more valued in their human and spiritual skills and gifts for the life of parishes and dioceses” not simply for the sake of numbers "but rather a correct vision of the church, the church as the people of God". I pray that Pope Leo XIV courageously moves the Church forward in becoming more inclusive in encouraging women to also sacramentally bear the divine lineage of our Lord, Jesus Christ, in whatever form that might take.
(Pope Francis, Vatican Synod Hall, Feb., 20, 2023).
I first experienced "God" during a heart-centered "breath of life" meditation in a non-Christian tradition. In recent years Christian prayer/meditation, the Eucharist, and scripture have helped me build this relationship through God's embodiment as Jesus Christ. Converting to Catholicism gave me greater depth and character to my relationship with God through Jesus. To maintain a deeper, personal relationship with Him, in addition to attending mass and faith formation and theology classes, I continue my heart-centered contemplative practices that initially sensitized me to the Holy Spirit and opened me to Christ's Living Presence in the Eucharist, only now in the tradition of the Christian Mystics. A regular practice of prayer, meditation, and contemplation can open Catholics/Christians/Others to a greater depth of God's Love, Wisdom, and Creative Spirit from which we came and aspire to return to.
Catholic Mysticism helps me understand who/what God is in my life, why I exist, the teachings of Jesus Christ and the light of the Holy Spirit guide me in how to live and be in community. I might add that along with the New Testament I have found the Catechism of the Catholic Church a comprehensive manual on how to grow in divinity.
I do not say Catholicism is the only and right path to God! It IS the one that gives me teachings and a model of how to live in joy, love, peace, and compassion; a sacrament that supernaturally/mystically transforms me slowly into that model and another sacrament to help me clear the "rubble" of distractions and negativity thus clearing the way to God and Heaven. It also provides a global community with a global leader who is guided by the Holy Spirit.
God has directed me down several path's in my life journey that are infused in my soul. This website and however it evolves, is one way that I share the love and gratitude that I have for God and the Grace that he bestows on all of us. I hope to encourage you to partake in exploring the mystery of Divine Humanity so that we might journey together discovering the truths and aliveness of God's Radical Love and Divinity couriered to us through the Holy Spirit.
"We love, because He first loved us." ---- John 4:19
I am not an embodiment of radical love but a witness to being loved radically by Christ - and being slowly and sometimes stubbornly transformed by that love. Please continue reading if you find anything here that your heart resonates with and your mind wants to explore further through my offerings.
By the Love of Jesus Christ,
Linda K. Saxton
Catholic Convert and Student of the Divine Human Mystery
"I pray that, according to the riches of His glory, He may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through His Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God".
Ephesians 3: 14-19
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"For I know the plans I have for you" declares the LORD," plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future".
Jeremiah 29:11