(66) The 6th Sunday of Easter. Our question: What has been a miracle in my life?

Laura shares some insights from her recent trip to Turkey - the "second Holy Land."

We talk about charismatic leaders and our openness to religious ecstacy. We offer several quotes by Rumi and St. Julian of Norwich, and explore the tradition of the mystics -- intimacy with the divine.

Marci Madary offered this quote from MLK Jr.
"All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
From excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr’s speech at Western Michigan University, 18 December 1963
https://libguides.wmich.edu/mlkatwmu/speech

Rumi quote - “Take the famous utterance, "I am God." Some people think this is a great pretension, but "I am God" is in fact a great humility. Those who say, instead, "I am a servant of God" believe that two exist, themselves and God. But those who say, "I am God" have become nothing and have cast themselves to the winds. They say, "I am God" meaning, "I am not, God is all. There is no existence but God. I have lost all separation. I am nothing." In this the humility is greater.

The Sunday Readings

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