In reflecting on my youth, I emphasize the mystical dimension of the Christian faith because it was that aspect of religious experience that I found to be truly liberatory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.' To know the truth is to prepare for it for it is not mainly reflection and theory. 'If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. The black theologian James Cone says that our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived: I was determined to live a life in the spirit. Early on, I made a commitment to be a seeker on the path: a seeker after truth. At that time, when I had not yet learned the right language, I knew only that despite the troubles of my world, the suffering I witnessed around and within me, there was always available a spiritual force that could lift me higher, that could give me moments of transcendent bliss wherein I could surrender all thought of the world and know profound peace.Įarly on, my heart had been touched by its delight. As a girl, touched by the mystical dimensions of Christian faith, I felt the presence of the Beloved in my heart: the oneness of our life.
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