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Theologically, Indian Jones exemplified a Love that was the motive that allowed him to step out in faith. In that Love, we are not acting from an I that amounts to the physical-psychological aggregates that we can call the empirical self. Rather, that I transcends the limits of the empirical self only through Love. In other words, only Love allows us to realize the possibilities of losing the psychophysical identification to act in unselfconscious freedom for the good and best of another. All other acting for good is still limited by self-interest, and this is why much “love” fails in doing good, rather than the best for another.
So, again, I hope in Love, I have attempted to integrate a number of elements of genre and theme. I have linked all this with motive, saying that the ability to live, heroically, in the Moment, even when we do not know where we are to go or what we are to do, allows us to step out on faith, which is always in the Now. Therefore, "in Christ," we can participate in Heaven, in Eternity, through a Love that arises from the Deep Center of All, from God. In this, we are “in Christ,” for only “in Christ” are we each in Love. Thus, anyone acting from Love, Now, is “in Christ.” Therefore, “in Christ” is removed from its limiting theological box. "In Christ" refers to the equality of Christ and Love and, thereby, beyond religion, with its words and doctrines. "In Christ” entails the unselfconscious act to act faithfully, which is to act lovingly.
Therefore, principally, I point to Love to guide you to “being in Christ.” And, “in Christ” we can be assured that the Love to act will arise from the Father, with whom we, like Jesus Christ, share in, Now, in Faith, Hope, and Love.
A Closing Prayer Of St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi has a prayer attributed to him, with which I close today. I ask you to sit or lie quietly, closing the eyes, smiling to the One, opening the heart to the Deep Center of All, and praying, repeating with the breath, in Silence, as you sense your Heart opening more to the Spirit, the Wonderful Presence:
Lord God, I am nothing, but all of it is yours.
Or,
Il Signor Iddio, io sono niente, ma tutto e la Vostra.
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