Earlier than/After Milton from the Floor in Florida

In latest DM’s we’ve got meditated on what Helene is telling us–or higher screaming to us–and what Milton is saying as effectively.  And in yesterday’s DM we shared what an observer, DM staff member Cynthia Greb, needed to inform us of Milton from the bottom in Lakeland, Florida.

At present I want to share two different feedback from Cynthia—one earlier than the storm hit; and the opposite this morning after the storm had moved on.  Along with what we posted yesterday, she wrote the next the day earlier than the storm :

Hello everybody. I really feel compelled to share one thing that I believe is necessary relating to Hurricane Milton. Sure, there are alarming stories popping out about its depth. And sure, completely individuals ought to do no matter they will to organize for it bodily in the event that they’re wherever close to its potential path. (Water, back-up batteries or energy sources, evacuation if that’s suggested, and so on.) However right here’s the “nevertheless” half. I believe generally we generally tend to get puffed up about phrases like “greatest, baddest, worst.” That is going to sound unusual, I do know, however I believe there’s part of us that will get enthusiastic about this and, unconsciously, we begin to add to the power and frenzy of it.

Right here is my suggestion: Enable for the opportunity of it getting weaker. Enable for the opportunity of it altering course. Enable for the opportunity of it being “not too dangerous.” As an alternative of imagining the worst (which we’ve sadly seen with Helene), think about it dwindling in energy. As an alternative of speaking about it being a 5 or 6, possibly you’ll be able to pray that it weaken to a 3 because it hits landfall. Possibly you’ll be able to even resist taking a look at fixed updates about it, which tends to extend anxiousness.

There may be nice energy in our phrases and ideas. Please select yours rigorously. Think about a greater case state of affairs.

Thanks.

That is what Cynthia wrote as we speak, Thursday, the day after the storm.

Hello everybody.

I awakened this morning to the sound of silence. The rain had lastly stopped. I stepped outdoors. The winds have gentled. The pavement was largely dry, amazingly. I heard the cooing of the sandhill cranes. Apart from one palm tree department and an indication on the opposite aspect of the freeway, all the things is essentially intact. 

SO MUCH GRATITUDE.

I do know Florida shouldn’t be unscathed, and there have been some fatalities [12] resulting from tornadoes, sadly, however by and enormous, I believe we witnessed a miracle. To go from a Class 5 to a 3 after which a 2 is simply unbelievable. I really imagine it was resulting from so many individuals praying. Helene woke us as much as the disaster that was attainable, and we didn’t need it to occur once more, and so we rallied with large time prayers. So many individuals had been praying.

I’m so grateful.  Thanks to your prayers.

Is it attainable that humanity can 1) stop taking the well being of Mom Earth without any consideration, and a pair of) elect politicians who will not be in denial about local weather change and don’t name it a “hoax,” and three) Stop making warfare on each other and as a substitute collect collectively to create different power sources, in order to fight the widespread enemy which isn’t different people however the destruction of our widespread residence? 

Would possibly humanity sometime look again to the years of the 20^th and early 21^st century and say, Mom Earth then was a paradise in comparison with what it’s as we speak. What motivated our ancestors to lose it?

See Matthew Fox, Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.

And Fox, Trump & MAGA as Antichrist: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.

And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul & Society.

Banner Picture: Satellite tv for pc photograph from the Worldwide Area Station reveals Hurricane Milton as a Class 5 storm within the Gulf of Mexico on Oct. 8, 2024. Picture by NASA on Wikimedia Commons.

Queries for Contemplation

How are you feeling the day after Milton left Florida?  Do you’re feeling gratitude—in addition to empathy and concern for these immediately affected by Milton–the day after the storm?  Do you’re feeling there are classes each Helene and Milton try to inform us?  In that case, what are they?

Really useful Studying

Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality

Matthew Fox lays out an entire new path for Christianity—a path that’s the truth is very historic and really grounded in Jewish considering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is commonly uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed manner.
“Unique Blessing makes obtainable to the Christian world and to the human neighborhood a radical remedy for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these might have originated.” –Thomas Berry, writer, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story

Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and concern. Nonetheless, given as we speak’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e-book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e-book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth

Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each non secular and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient by which we be taught to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the present of an excellent and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that gives a typical floor for non secular seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Observe.

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox affords a brand new theology of evil that basically modifications the standard notion of fine and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anybody single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics