Where do we place our attention?
Where do we place our attention? On God? I don’t think so, since God’s attention is on all of God’s offspring, and so therefore must our attention be. Union with God is less desirable than loving a hungry person with food, an outcast with taking in. Do we give up the need to change the world, as Meg Wheatley suggests? I think so to this extent, that it keeps us from loving in the now. But not to the extent it hardens us against helping up someone who is fallen or a group unjustly held back.
We can serve here and now, and therefore should. We have a larger span of vision, and so we can still strive for larger effect. In each case we hold ourselves to the standard not of results but of the love we put into play.
:- Doug.
