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Primal Words: Self, Love, God, Jesus
By John Corry
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SELF. Not the observing self, not the self-serving-others self. But SELF that wills SELF. Ego-SELF. SELF-against-selves. SUPERSELF. SELF over all!
Love. The most critical relationship in life is not as St. Augustine claimed between the human soul and God, but between SELF and Love.
God. First encounter? Sitting next to grandmother when I was eight years old in the big Quaker Meeting room in Atlantic City… Finally the squirming drifted away and I became aware of stillness around me and I knew God wasn’t in the big fan overhead… but God was in the stillness. Not just silence but stillness that came out of the silence.
Jesus. We speak of Jesus as a primal word. We make a clearing in the forest of words for the Word who was flesh. We leave Love and God to one side to walk into the mystery of a new primal Word.
Love. The most critical relationship in life is not as St. Augustine claimed between the human soul and God, but between SELF and Love.
God. First encounter? Sitting next to grandmother when I was eight years old in the big Quaker Meeting room in Atlantic City… Finally the squirming drifted away and I became aware of stillness around me and I knew God wasn’t in the big fan overhead… but God was in the stillness. Not just silence but stillness that came out of the silence.
Jesus. We speak of Jesus as a primal word. We make a clearing in the forest of words for the Word who was flesh. We leave Love and God to one side to walk into the mystery of a new primal Word.
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John Corry
John Corry is 90 years old. He's practicing Catholic Quaker, has been married to Betty Jean Corry for 68 years, has five children and ten grandchildren. He was an elementary public school teacher for 25 years and has been writing full time for 32 years.
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