Awakening to Wholeness is a series of prompts, reflections, and teachings about how holding the tension of opposites can help us to heal division and experience wholeness. If you feel moved to share your own reflections, we invite you to email us with the subject line “Wisdom of Opposites” or tag us on social media with #EHoPWisdomOfOpposites.
This is a guest post by EHoP community member Dianne Schlichting, in response to “Partial and Whole” by Christine Luna Munger.
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‘I am the vine; you are the branches” (John 15:1-8). Partial to Whole.
In my growing as a branch, I have come to appreciate the value of pruning! The more I am able to see what is lacking in my response to God’s Love, the greater is my desire to bring that lack to God in prayer, seeking help in transformation by practicing gratitude and trust.
This morning as I reflected on John’s Gospel message of the vine and the branches, I came to understand that the partial within me—the taste of holiness that abides within each of us—is the incentive to grow into the Whole, to become more Christ-like in the here and now. Having experienced the rewards of patience, the sharing of kindnesses, the imparting of wisdom through fellow pilgrims, the peace of entering into dialogue and communication with others, including the Divine, these experiences cause me to desire MORE and MORE of God’s Love within as well as in interaction with others.
So…partial is the incentive to grow, to become, to bear more fruit so that we all can experience God’s love in fullness, wholeness, in this Kingdom on Earth.
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Dianne Schlichting
Dianne is a member of EHoP; she and her husband John value the opportunity to share contemplative prayer and outreach with others who make the House of Prayer their spiritual home. Dianne is a wife, mother, and grandmother who loves spending time in nature, especially canoeing with John.
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