I don’t think sin is a birthright. I don’t think it is original to us at all. Don’t get me wrong, this world is a dumpster fire of hate and violence, greed and arrogance, exclusion and self-harm. Evil is in the air we breathe. But, that’s the thing. It’s in the air, not in us. God made us and called us good. Everything else — the evil, the hatred — is a lie we buy into from our earliest moments. Our egos tell us to be something we were never made to be. Our self-protective coverings insist that we can make ourselves into something valuable by rejecting the value of those around us. But none of that is true to the sacred center of us. 

Let's talk about the good that grows in all of us.

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Links:

• This reflection and practice were also published this week in The Slow Way Newsletter.
• Read The Ninefold Path of Jesus by Mark Scandrette
• Read Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
• Read Mindful Silence by Phileena Heurtz
• Read Mary Mrozowski’s Contemplative Outreach
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