The way as a "how".

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello janielee.

I will do my best to communicate some thoughts as you request.

Stumbling, falling, failing.

With regard to the latter,-- failing,--It is not clear who or what would make that judgement. For this reason I now think it preferable to replace failing with--believing to have failed.

It is my belief that there are words which relate to the"way" in the Beatitudes.

Words addressed to an assembly of those already believers in in this particular "way", or those curious to learn more.

Words foretelling that such believers, participants, would (and will) be tested ad a consequence of that participation, of that belief.

Words which encouraged/encourage steadfastness in resolutely continuing to embody those particular facets of the "way" as a manner of being in the face of the consequences which would/will likely have to be endured as themselves consequence of following such belief, such participation.

Words which offered/still offer assurance and reassurance that in such steadfast participation is to be found fulfillment--not as reward, but as inevitable consequence of having taken up that invitation to join the "way", to have chosen to become fellow participants in the process of the embodiment of the way of loving.

I hope that these thoughts may form chords with the thoughts of others, of whatever belief.

petex

1 cor. 12:31 thru 13:13

31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts.
And I show you a still more excellent way.
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

[weareunity]

Hello ImthatIm. ☺. petex

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello ImthatIm. ☺. petex

Hey petex.

[linen53]

Talking in circles is not the way to get my attention.

[simon777]

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello.

To choose to follow the way as a "how"--notwithstanding often stumbling, falling, failing,--is not like following a path, but simply choosing, attempting, to embody a certain chosen way of being to wherever that may lead.

petex

Everybody's the way I guess is going to be different.

I like to look at it as the travel from A to Z on your spiritual path however it comes about. If you are a racing car driver then your journey will be along the lines of racing. If you are a Fireman then it will be along the lines of that also...and so on and so on. Everybody's way is a different path but to the individual its the only path. Kinda like a DNA thing in a spiritual sense.

Its your own personal journey to rebirth and enlightenment....It is the way

[weareunity]

Hello simon777.

I like the non judgemental way of how you have used varying styles of driving as a way of illustrating individuality.

petex

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello.
To choose to follow the way as a "how"--notwithstanding often stumbling, falling, failing,--is not like following a path,
but simply choosing, attempting, to embody a certain chosen way of being to wherever that may lead.
petex

'Embody a certain way of being'-very Zen of you. I like that.
Seems it doesn't matter where it leads, just be that.

[simon777]

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello simon777.

I like the non judgemental way of how you have used varying styles of driving as a way of illustrating individuality.

petex

Yes peterx that is a good way, we all find our own.