In Living Earth Devotional I discuss grounding by imagining your body's energetic roots growing deep int the earth. I am leading a Bible study at The Land, an ecumenical Christian faith community in Aurora, Colorado. This is leading me to look up Bible verses, something that hasn't been a huge part of my faith until now. I'm actually loving seeing how Bible scripture supports my mystical, liberal, deeply ecumenical spirituality. It's beautiful to read the Bible from a Christ Consciousness perspective. So let's see what the Good Book has to say about roots and grounding.
Ephesians 3:17
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love...
"Christ" to me is Christ Consciousness or the Cosmic Christ, which can be found in all of us, and is awaking in all of us. And the nature of Christ Consciousness and the Universe is Love. So this passage speaks about how being grounded, or putting your roots deep into the Earth, is about reaching ourselves into Love. We are established on Earth through Love.
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Colossians 2:6-7 Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
When we are rooted in the blessings of this life, and in the bigger picture of Christ, we overflow with gratitude.
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Matthew 15:3 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted."
Jesus speaks in parables about the Earth a lot. This passage is usually interpreted as people who aren't good Christians will... I'm not sure - go to "hell"? I don't see it this way, for God planted us all, and planted all the plants, "planted" everything. So what is Jesus saying here? I think he is saying that the darkness that we carry within, the belief that we are no good or that we are not loved (what hell truly is) - those beliefs were not planted by God, and those will eventually perish when we come to know that we are also Christed ones.
Blessed be!
1 comment:
A lovely way to look at the Bible. I turned away from these words when I started honoring who I was and not who I was told to be. I like how you are looking for what is good and not “throwing the baby out with the bath water “.
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