Lets Continue the Praxis Conversation

I was blessed and inspired by the conversations at the “Praxis” event last week. Thank you Pastor Ed and all your staff. It was a very special time for me personally. My prayer is that the conversation would lead to further communion around our mutual hunger for liturgy, sacraments and the new creative liturgy the Holy Spirit is releasing into our lives.Over the last week I found my self meditating on three simply words, a question really; “What is life?”God made and blessed everything that He created, then He gave it to man. Food would then became the signs and the means of His Presence “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Even though the whole of creation depends upon food it is only man who has the ability and the honor to thank God. To give God thanks for what he receives and to bless it knowing that He who made it has placed something of Himself with in it.God’s gift to man, was given to make God known to man. God intended man to live in an ongoing communion with HIm. What is life? It is communion with God.The man who receives the food from God and blesses the food and the God; receives both the food and the life of God through the food. This is what we were created for “Life from and with God.” Our entire lives were intend to be lived “eucharistically.” To eat for utilitarian reasons is to miss the point. To receive God’s blessed gift and to thank Him is man’s first assignment, his first response to God is to bless God, to thank Him; to see creation as God sees it and to be grateful for it.I spoke the other day about being hungry for “something more.” You can eat a huge meal and still not be satisfied. Why? because the food did not contain that “something” that comes only for God. To eat something ‘not given, not blessed by God’ is to eat without communion with God. It is to eat for oneself, without another in mind. To eat as an end in itself, (fast food).Humanity loves the world as it’s own end. Unfortunately humanity does not see the world as transparent to God. Mostpeople do not see the world as filled with the Presence of God. Thus they are generally unable to live a life of “thanksgiving”. Unable to thank God for the gifts He has provided. For most people the idea of living a eucharistic life would simply seem un-natural.The world has fallen away from the awareness of God. No longer aware of what God has created and given to humanity. Man has reduced life to the mere intake of food, rather than receiving, blessing and transforming the food itself into constant communion with the Life of God.Man was created to be a priest, offering the world to God and receiving the Life of God. The world is meaningful only when it is the sacrament of God’s presence. It seems that when man wonders away from the “life of God” (eucharist). He wonders away from the ability to transform given food into Life. He wonders away from being a priest and becomes a slave.What is life? Life is God received by “living in a liturgy of the eucharist” every day! Living in a way in which the very “life of god is sacramentally received.” Jesus told us"...I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it aoverflows).AMP I am truly convinced that there is more for us to receive.Praxis.... let’s continue the conversation .... there is so much here to unpack!