Michael Rose

The Communion of Becoming A Teilhardian Inspired Prayer of Consent to Love’s Ongoing Evolution

"O Radiant Love,
hidden Flame at the heart of matter,
Pulse of stars and cells and trembling atoms -
whisper in the quiet between my thoughts
and shape the waves beneath the waves
where consciousness opens into wonder."

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Because #love and #life hide in the dust, sweat, chaos, and sheep poop, along with the unexpected joy of ordinary #work.

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Roots Remember What Branches Forget - by Michael Rose A story for the days you’re not sure you believe.

For your Reflection: "There once was a vine that grew along a stone wall at the entry to a village. It wasn’t much to look at, thin and weathered, ravaged by too many dry prairie winters. Its leaves battered by too many hot, dry west winds..."

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#SpiritualGrowth #hope #faith

Grass isn't always greener on the other side or at another time in history. #ancientinsightsfortoday #SpiritualJourney

Roots Remember What Branches Forget - by Michael Rose A story for the days you’re not sure you believe.

This is the 3rd and final post in this brief series. Somewhere in that messy, wild borderland — the ecotone where belief and uncertainty meet — I offer a short parable.

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#Parables #FaithAndDoubt #SpiritualWisdom

On my Substack: "Love is a choice. Each morning, I need to choose it again — choose love when I’m anxious, when I’m furious, when I feel completely lost. Love is grace, yes, but it’s also a practice, a habit, a muscle that only gets stronger with use." Read: mrose.substack.com/p...
#SpiritualJourney

Love is a choice. Each morning, I need to choose it again — choose love when I’m anxious, when I’m furious, when I feel completely lost. Love is grace, yes, but it’s also a practice, a habit, a muscle that only gets stronger with use. Read: mrose.substack.com/p...
#ChooseLove

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I need your help!
I’m publishing a book this fall and would love it if you would share with me which of the four book covers you like most? Please leave your vote (1,2,3 or 4) in the Comment Section. #FallReads #IndieAuthor #Spiritualbooks #TeilharddeChardin #ORT

The big idea in my latest Substack;

"Love does not win
by crushing enemies
or by pitchfork and torches
but by giving itself,
come what way may
and rising
and rising
and rising still."

If you like, read it here: mrose.substack.com/p...

#LovePrevails #LoveWins #SpiritualDirection #EmpathyInAction

I offer some wordplay on tenacious self-giving love with my new Substack post:

" Love comes back,
not with armies
but with bandages,
bread,
and broken hearts
that beat anyway. "

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#SpiritualDirection #SelfGiving #SelfGivingLove

When Your Neighbor ​is a Christian Nationalist: A Process-Relational Approach Sources and Approach Shortly I will tell you a little about two neighbors of mine: Greg and Alice. Greg is a Christian nationalist and Alice is a United Methodist. Greg lives two doors to my right...

Excellent analysis of Xian Nationalism and a thoughtful way forward www.openhorizons.org/when-your-ne...

To love God is to love what God loves - the planet, the flowers, trees and animals ... and human beings. We are entangled with God and therefore entangled in all things.

#EntangledInAllThings #SacredRelationships #SacredNature

Your heart isn’t a monster. It’s a compass. Sure, it needs tuning now and then — but it still points toward Love. 🧭 #RethinkJeremiah #BecomingLove

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God is love. Love is relational. Freedom is key for love. Love doesn't control.
#EmbraceTheLove #FreedomInLove #LoveWithoutControl

God is Amipotent not omnipotent. God's superpower is love.

#GodIsAmipotent #LoveIsStronger #TransformationalLove

Perfect love drives away fear.
#exvangelical #GodisLove #faithshift

God is love, Love is relational. Love is dynamic - The faithfulness of God's love is rooted in love's nature to change, to grow ... #Onesizedoesntfitall
#GodIsLove #amipotence

Everything is Love ... Love expressed or Love required.
#Godislove #traumainformed #exvangelical #findinghome

Take a 1-minute break - a covert, mini meditation to reset, re-ground and refresh. (Don't forget to breathe). #Mindfulness #Meditation #SelfCare

"And even in a heart gone dark, there remains a flicker — a bridgehead of good."

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#HopeInDarkness #EmotionalHealing #InnerLight

A few thoughts about loving the folks that are hard to love and avoiding the viciousness of ideological purity that masquerades as justice ... but probably isn't. Read it here: open.substack.com/pu...

#LoveAndCompassion #HealingHearts #HealingRelationships

We become what we love. What are you becoming?

#Becoming #LoveAndGrowth #IliaDelioquotes

Grief is hard. Grief has a 1000 different faces and is as unique as you are.
#GriefJourney #GriefSupport #healmyheart #religiousdeconstruction

One Minute Meditation. I am my beloved's ...

#SpiritualDirection #OneMinuteMeditation #GodisLove #Entangled #Godineverything

Everything we are sings ... #divinelove #mystic

#SpiritualJourney #endure #grief #hope #ancientwisdom

Interesting read: "...Embarrassed by your feelings of boredom ... . Those feelings are an important signal that the practice may not be optimal for you. It’s as if boredom is saying: ‘Change something ...'"

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#SpiritualCare #Meditation #PersonalGrowth

What if sin is anything that opposes Love? And what if justice is healing? Rethinking sin through the lens of Jesus.
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#JusticeAndLove #SpiritualGrowth #JesusTheHealer #FaithReimagined #HolyCuriosity #UnlearningReligion #HealingNotHarm #ReclaimingJesus

Teaser for my latest Substack newsletter where I'll be playing with ideas of sin, blood-letting and leaches and religious quackery. And a world (and people) who are very much in the process of becoming.

Publishing tomorrow (July 16) afternoon.