{"id":9484,"date":"2021-02-18T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/andre\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2021-02-20T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T19:25:51","slug":"a-dream-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/andre\/significant-sustenance\/a-dream-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream a little Dream with Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been asked, \"Where are you coming from with IamSignificant.ca?\u00a0 Is it self-help\/ self-improvement? Or is it spiritual \/ faith stuff? \u00a0Grief\/loss care? \u00a0What is it?\"\u00a0 I smile and say, \"Yes, and more!<\/strong>\"<\/span><\/p>\n

I am coming from a place that mystic and monk Thomas Merton so aptly states - it's all spiritual, or none of it is!<\/strong>\u00a0 Everything is holy now.<\/span><\/p>\n

To cut to the chase, I am enamoured by the God-who-is-love. \u00a0Head over heels in love with a relational, self-giving God who is in all things and at the same time transcends all things. \u00a0An uncontrolling God who invites us, calls us, lures us, loves us, woo's us to co-create a world of self-giving, co-suffering love. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My passion is to walk my own journey of becoming and to encourage and support others as they, too, journey towards the embodiment of love in all of life. \u00a0Jesus called this becoming a New Creation<\/em><\/strong> or, as the writer of 2 Peter wrote\u00a0partakers of the divine nature<\/em><\/strong> or said yet in another way becoming\u00a0Christ-like<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we awakening to the amazing love of God, we are changed, and from the endless flow of divine love, we can love others and together co-create with God a beautiful world.\u00a0<\/span>This love is continually creating; attraction ---> greater complexity --->\u00a0deeper consciousness ---> more complex manifestation of love<\/strong>. \u00a0Love that Christifies<\/em><\/strong> the cosmos. A love that overcomes death \u2014 a love that heals human brokenness and makes all things new<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am talking about the kind of love that contends without ever manipulating or keeping score.\u00a0 It is patient and kind; it serves, tenaciously forgives, self-giving, always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/span>
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I dream of new kinds of spiritual communities. I dream of seeing these become\u00a0a sign and a wonder<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>to those seeking and seeking again. \u00a0Radically inclusive communities. \u00a0Thoughtful communities of faith that embrace the best insights from both the sciences and good theology.<\/strong> \u00a0The healthy faith community's hallmark is how we love and care for one another - friend or enemy. I like the phrase \"Faithful, forgiving friend<\/strong>s.\"\u00a0A faith community that recognizes Christ in all things, and as such, we are a part of something much bigger, a global community of creation intricately connected in a way that our intentions, actions and inactions matter.<\/strong> Jesus said they would know you are my people because of the way you love...\". \u00a0

Nestled within this work is helping folks untangle from tribal, life-crushing shame-based religious ideas, practices and toxic expressions of church.<\/strong> To help them heal their hearts from the experiences of loss and (re)discover freedom, hope and peace all rooted in love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My\u00a0dream with IamSignificant.ca is to cast a vision, dream-a-dream out loud and encourage deeper life through love. \u00a0Cheerleading, championing and walking alongside people in their journey of becoming love.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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