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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. While it focuses on Christian teaching, I hope persons of varied faiths will find inspiration here. Indeed, "God" can be whatever image helps us trust in the Sacred, by whatever means Grace touches us each. Please share this ministry with others, and please return soon. There is a new offering daily. And to be placed on the daily OneLife email list, to request notifications of new writings or submit prayer requests, write to briankwilcox@yahoo.com .
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Pastor-Teacher, Author, Workshop Leader, Spiritual Counselor, and Chaplain.
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook. The group is called OneLife Ministries – An Interspiritual Contemplative Fellowship. Hope to see you there. Blessings.
MY Confession of Faith
A LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS
and through JESUS
for ALL.
POEM
Love is the
Breath of Life.
Everything other than this Love
breathing in me, breathing through me,
breathing with breathing, in ecstatic
embrace, is like eating sugar - sweet to
the taste, but misery to come.
But, in Grace, everything is transformed
into Love by loving, even sugar.
Why does my spirit yearn?
For Love.
Who is Love?
You.
What am I asking?
More, and more, of This!
Every taste of the Beloved's lips
opens a whole new Ocean inside;
I am the diver, moving my hands
on another Ocean floor, seeking
unseen treasures
to explore.
Amen.
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox, "Love by Love"
QUOTE
As Sun light penetrates and moves through the glass, the Person is created by the Master Artist to receive Light, and be means of Light communicating Itself. However, this communication of Light through Person, Person to Person, has a transformative effect on the Person. One cannot surrender to the penetration apart from yielding to the process of being made godly – literally, transformed into the divineness that is the essence of Light. We become like what we give ourselves to, what we allow to be lively within us; no less, we become like Love, when we allow Love liveliness within and through us, too. Every person has a faith, every person surrenders finally to something; the question is: “What will we trust wholly?, and, also, “To whom, or what, shall we give ourselves fully?”
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox
SPIRITUAL TEACHING
The writer of Ephesians gives a remarkable passage or our growing spiritually. He writes as follows, Ephesians 4.13:
Until we together, as one Body, come to unity in the Faith, and of our intimate, relational knowing of the Son of the One; growing into a complete, whole Person together, even to the full extent of Who Christ is.
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John Main, founder of the Worldwide Community of Christian Meditation, and Benedictine monk, speaks of the mystical implications of the Ephesians scripture, for you and me, for all:
Meditation is so important for us because it is a way of actual response that leads us away from self. It is a way of transcendence. It is a way of entering the reality that is greater than ourselves. It is a way that brings us into that liberty of spirit that arises when we are no longer thinking about ourselves, our plans, our self-development and our fulfillment. While meditating we have only one consideration, which is to enter into harmonious resonation with the divinizing energy of God. In the Christian vision the energy of God is limitless, free, self-communicating love. In the Christian revelation, this is the call that each of us has, to follow that love to become the supreme reality in our lives.
Of course, this Christian vision is not just in the Christian faith. This Christian vision is shared by many in other faiths. For this vision is given us by the Divine Wisdom, seeking for us to become divinized, or transformed into godness, as God is God. For God is relational, seeking you and me, us together, to share oneness with God. God seeks to fulfill God, in us. The Fulness of God seeks fullness in relation with us who come out of God. Fulness seeks fulness; fulness seeks Fulness.
We surrender, then, to grow into a harmonious resonation with the energies of all life, all creatures, with God. This is possible, as meditation teaches us, only through a surrender of our sense of self to a larger sensing into, and being sensed into, by a larger Self, which is the Body in which all bodies live, find meaning, and find Love. All Nature, ultimately, is the Body of God. All bodies, physical and otherwise, are because they derive from, are in, and are moving into godness, with this Body of God.
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life and with his two dogs, Bandit Ty and St. Francis. While within the Christian path, he is an ecumenical-interspiritual teacher, author, and chaplain. He is Senior Chaplain for the Charlotte County Jail, Punta Gorda, FL.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings at briankwilcox@yahoo.com . Also, Brian is on Facebook: search Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
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