Quote from Fr Symeon Burhold

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His article on "Divine
Energy" can be found
in "The Inner Journey:
Views from the
Christian Tradition".

The world is radiant with God’s presence, with divine energy. He is dynamically present in all things as their creator and all things participate in the divine energy to the extent that he acts upon them and they are patient to his touch. In Christian tradition, it is the human person who is most capable of this participation.  We are believed to be made in the image and likeness of God and, on the basis of the ancient axiom that knowledge and vision occur with likeness, the Church has affirmed that man can behold God with the eye of his soul, or heart.  So our heart's gaze can be fixed upon God.  To sin is literally to fall short of this vision of God and to deal with things merely as objects of our own gratification and convenience.  - Fr Symeon Burhold, "Divine Energy" 


TALK ABOUT IT: Sin as falling short of our capacity to behold God

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DO IT (OUTER PRACTICE): Dealing with everything differently

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