A Word with Jan Lundy at Awake Is Good
“The Word of our own nature begins and ends with something infinitely greater than ourselves, yet here and now resonates in our own voices. The Word that rises on our own breath is consistent with anyone’s beliefs or lack of beliefs. To speak the Word in this way is to feel and know something original to ourselves. It can only enrich us. It can only unite us. It is time.”
From the preface to Original Faith: What Your Life Is Trying to Tell You
For more about “the Word,” see Jan Lundy’s interview at Awake is Good as my blog tour continues…
From the preface to Original Faith: What Your Life Is Trying to Tell You
For more about “the Word,” see Jan Lundy’s interview at Awake is Good as my blog tour continues…
Posted by Paul at 7:16 PM Permalink
7 Comments:
What is your life trying to tell you, indeed!
Tuti - That's a good way to think of it.
Pauline - I answer this in the guest interview - and actually posted this excerpt specifically because Jan asks what I mean by "the Word..."
But then, if a particular frequency/note alone resonates in us, then "we are" because of a super natural's choice? Or you intend to mean a continuum without a beginning or end, but that which just exists and remains a catalyst to everything? Maybe a tangent which we seek?
I don’t directly state what I mean by “the Word” in Original Faith, but the meaning emerges over the course of the book. It’s essentially this:
Some sort of amazing and genuinely creative activity brought us into being. This isn't to argue for or against "a Creator" but only to point to the fact that somehow, for example, the incredible complexity of our brains came into being. Here we are.
I identify the Word with that in ourselves - principally, love – that calls us to participate in this same process of creation, helping to further it along.
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