{"id":13204,"date":"2017-07-01T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=13204"},"modified":"2017-07-01T19:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T19:24:30","slug":"saskatchewan-rainbow-divine-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/featured\/saskatchewan-rainbow-divine-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saskatchewan Rainbow and Divine Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were driving the Trans-Canada Hiway on our way to a Kite Festival in Swift Current, Saskatchewan when this scene filled the horizon ahead of us. I can’t recall seeing such a vivid rainbow. \u00a0The colours were rich and shimmered and seemed to pop in a way I had never noticed before. \u00a0I found my thoughts turning to the quote from Ilia Delio’s book:\u00a0The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“Creation is a divine kenosis of divine love, emptying of the divine self into the other.” – Ilia Delia<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Kenosis is one of those $25 theological words which simply means the self-emptying of oneself. \u00a0An example would be the incarnation. \u00a0To me, this is loaded with gift language – the giving of oneself to another as a gift, for love’s sake. \u00a0For it to be a gift, it implies that it has no strings attached. \u00a0No expectation of reciprocation. \u00a0 To love with no demand of love in return. \u00a0Coercive? No. \u00a0Persuasive? Most certainly!<\/p>\n

The rainbow in my picture looked so much like the colour was being poured out into this world and the idea that divine love empties itself into the other. \u00a0 How God in Christ poured himself into humanity, and how Christ emptied himself, gave himself to rescue us from ourselves.<\/p>\n

It was a “Living colour” illustration that the nature of God and his disposition towards his good creation is, and always has been one of love. \u00a0A self-emptying love. \u00a0A self-emptying love at work, that when it’s all said and done will makes all things beautiful.<\/p>\n

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