Fully Alive in God

Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard (1 Samuel 15:34–16:13; Ps 20; 2 Corinthians 5:6–10, (11–13), 14–17; St Mark 4:26–34) Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” (Mark 4:26-29) In the Kingdom of God, we are participants and wonderers too. We are like the farmer depicted in Wendell Berry’s “The Man Born to Farming” described here: The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, … His thought passes along the row ends like a mole. What miraculous seed has he swallowed that the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth like a vine clinging in the sunlight, and like water descending in the dark? [1] What ...

Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( 1 Samuel 15:34–16:13; Salmo 202 Corintios 5:6–10, (11–13), 14–17; San Marcos 4:26–34)   Jesús dijo: «Con el reino de Dios sucede como con el hombre que siembra semilla en la tierra: que lo mismo da que esté dormido o despierto, que sea de noche o de día, la semilla nace y crece, sin que él sepa cómo. Y es que la tierra produce por sí misma: primero el tallo, luego la espiga y más tarde los granos que llenan la espiga. Y cuando ya el grano está maduro, lo recoge, porque ha llegado el tiempo de la cosecha.» (Marcos 4:26-29) En el Reino de Dios, somos participantes y también veamos todo con asombro. Somos como el granjero representado su poema de Wendell Berry “The Man Born to Farming” que se describe aquí: El cultivador de árboles, el jardinero, el hombre nacido para la agricultura, … Su pensamiento pasa a lo largo de los extremos de la fila como un topo. ¿Qué semilla milagrosa ha tragado que la frase infinita de...

Rublev's Trinity M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Isaiah 6:1–8; Ps. 29; Romans 8:12–17; John 3:1–17) When do you most feel the deep mystery of this life? Is it when you hear your loved one breathe at night? Is it when you see the flashes and thunder and lightning of a tremendous storm? Is it when someone tells you a truth that you always knew but could never put into words? We human beings have bodies and mostly it's good to be connected to them. I'm more connected with my mind with my body, so to remedy that recently I have done little bit of yoga every day. I've always done some yoga but now I'm doing a little more yoga and more regularly. And it has helped me to connect with my body. But when we read scriptures like this gospel, we focus very much on the spirit, and feel that the spirit has to be disconnected from the body. And then the reading from Romans tells us not be too connected to the weaknesses of the body. Do we need to feel...

Rublev's Trinity M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Isaias 6:1–8; S. 29; Romanos 8:12–17; Juan 3:1–17) ¿Qué es el momento cuando más sentimos el profundo misterio de esta vida? ¿Es cuando escuchamos nuestro ser querido respirar en la noche? ¿Es cuando vemos los relámpagos y brillos y truenos de una tremenda tormenta? ¿Es cuando alguien nos dice una verdad que siempre conocíamos pero nunca pudimos poner en palabras? Nosotros los seres humanos tenemos cuerpos y a veces es bueno estar conectados a ellos. Yo soy una persona más conectada con mi mente que con mi cuerpo, así que una cosa que he hecho recientemente que me ha ayudado bastante ha sido hacer solo un poco de yoga cada día. Siempre lo he hecho pero estoy haciendo un poco más yoga ahora y más regularmente. Y me ayudado a conectar con el cuerpo. Muchas veces cuando leemos escrituras como este evangelio, nos enfoquemos mucho en el espíritu, y sentimos que el espíritu se tiene que estar desconectado del cue...

(https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/ shackleton-s-endurance-may-be-in-antarctica-1-3044222) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Acts 1:15–17, 21–26; Ps. 1; 1 John 5:9–13; John 17:6–19) Amy Lindeman Allen says, “The story of the resurrection is the story of God making a way where there is no way.” [1] Making a way where there is no way. I just heard an audiobook with just this story. In Alfred Lansing’s book Endurance (1959) [2] , I heard the story of Edward Shackleton’s group’s journey into the Antarctic and the amazing story about how, even shipwrecked, all the members of the party returned alive. At every point in the story, they found a way when there was no way. First, they financed and launched the expedition just as war was breaking out in 1914. Then they sailed into the Antarctic waters- further than anyone had gone- and their ship got squeezed in the ice and eventually broke apart. There, stranded in an uninhabited stretch of frozen ocean, they might ha...

(https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/ shackleton-s-endurance-may-be-in-antarctica-1-3044222) M. Campbell-Langdell Todos los Santos, Oxnard (Hechos 1:15 – 17, 21-26; Salmo 1; 1 San Juan 5:9 – 13; San Juan 17:6 – 19) Amy Lindeman Allen dice, "la historia de la resurrección es la historia de Dios haciendo un camino donde no hay camino." [1] Hacer un camino donde no hay camino. Acabo de oír un audiolibro sobre este tema. En libro de Alfred Lansing Endurance (1959) [2] , he oído hablar la historia del viaje del grupo de Edward Shackleton en el Antártico y la increíble historia de cómo todos los miembros náufragos del grupo que empezó en el barco regresaron vivos. En cada punto de la historia, encontraron una manera de cuando no había manera. Primero, financiaron y empezaron la expedición justo mientras estaba empezando la guerra en 1914. Luego navegaron en el antártico las aguas-más lejos que jamás alguien había ido- y su nave fue exprimida en el hielo y finalmente...

(https://theblogofkevin.wordpress.com/ tag/ethiopian-eunuch/) M. Campbell-Langdell All Saints, Oxnard ( Acts 10:44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17) "Perfect love casts out fear" it says in the reading of the first Epistle of Saint John today. What does this mean? If you are like me, you can think of twenty people or situations of which to be afraid, and this is just before breakfast. If you are a person of color, these days you may even fear going out for a cup of coffee. If you are an undocumented person, must keep your car in perfect working order so as not to be stopped by the police. For all of us, we hear that our world is endangered by climate change and we don't have time. Fear, fear, fear. It is part of our everyday world. What does it mean? I believe God wants us to have a change of heart. That we might leave room for God’s love to enter until, although there are always reasons to fear, we can pause these thoughts for long enough to receiv...