Being, Begetting, Becoming
by R.E. Slater
If we consider humanity's being-ness as part-and-parcel with humanity's doing-ness then we bear the charge to "Live Responsibly in an Unfinished World" (e.g., unfinished, in the sense of present-tense processual actualizations which never cease from their activity of prehending the past --> to self-actualizing the present --> to comprehending the future; also known as a process of concrescence).
Humanity's underlining primary burden for planet earth must be that of "caretaker pro tem" continuing all past efforts of earthcare into the present tense of effectuating all future efforts of eco-humanitarianism implying Earth's stewardship and as humanitarian purveyors of social justice.
By this unfinished term of caretaker is meant not only our caretake of earth but also our caretake of one-another, of humanity itself. That we are charged to mend, heal, repair the realm of God drawing both aspects of caretake together as one - by healing and mending both earth and mankind. And when undertaking these tasks, we are also healing and mending God's soul as much as God is empowering us to heal and mend ourselves.
So, humanity does not simply bear a singular task but a dual subset of the singular task to mend, heal, and repair the earth and each other... neither of which we have done very well... if, at all, in many cases.
Finally, in our earthly caretake of nature and people we, as earth's cosmic progeny, are intimately bound and identified with this earth... having been birthed from its "soils, waters, and airs" wherein we are linked, connected to, and are endowed with an infinite affinity, or earthly kinship, with our earthly cosmos. A cosmic cosmos which has birthed us as our cosmic mother to all possible individual human outcomes to its own possible cosmic outcomes, which, taken together, presents a concrescence sense of being and becoming for all entities evolving from novelty to novelty towards forms of completeness and wellbeing.
R.E. Slater
September 8, 2021
by R.E. Slater
We each give birth and rebirth,
one to the other; we are the
unfinished sons and daughters,
of this unfinished world...
Each a cosmic entity, providing
life-giving identity,
cosmic fulfillment,
interlocking purpose...
An envisioned divine fellowship,
birthed to one another, as
birthed by our cosmic mother,
begun at the hands of God...
Who cares for all; Is part of all,
Sustaining and thriving with all,
Engulfing and flowing with all,
Co-inheritors of God's eternal Self...
And so, we do the same;
we are to create,
to nourish, to provide room,
for endless thrival...
No war. No destruction.
No hate. No bigotry.
No racism. No Inequality.
We are the Cosmic One...
Called to heal and repair,
to do our tasks well.
yea, more than well!
Gloria Dei!
R.E. Slater
September 8, 2021
Rev. Sept. 15, 2021
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The Processual Cycle of Life
by R.E. Slater
From earth's cosmos mankind is birthed,
And to earth's cosmos mankind returns,
That in life or death we nurture that
which bore us, sustaining it as it sustains
ourselves, our mother, our parent, our home.
That in life or death we nurture that
which bore us, sustaining it as it sustains
ourselves, our mother, our parent, our home.
R.E. Slater
September 8, 2021
September 8, 2021
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Stewards of an Unfinished Earth
by R.E. Slater
We, the fractured servants of this world,
are not it's superiors, but it's guardians
of a world we prepare for God's restless
dwelling; that each part harmonizes with
the other, bring wholeness to field and
stream, flower and beast, man and God.
R.E. Slater
September 8, 2021
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