Love enters Life through Virtue
The essence of the Source is love.
Life emerges from and is sustained – made whole – and eternalized – made everlasting – by love entering the process.
Love enters the process through virtue.
All virtues are sourced in and organized by love… and are manifestations – particular essence patterns of intent – of love, and the means through which love enters the process… the processes of life… the working of the world.
Virtue sourced, potential realizing, value adding, reciprocally nourishing processes are a manifestation of “coming from above, wisdom leading, love entering, life unfolding.”
+ Virtue sourced… love sourced and organized
+ Potential realizing… essence unfolding
+ Value adding… ongoing acts of creating
+ Reciprocally nourishing… reciprocal spirit awakening, spirit manifesting
Christ came from above; we, like Christ, come from above. God – the Source – sent Christ to earth; God sent each of us to earth. Each and all come from the Source, from one Source, the same Source as Christ came from. Each is sent with a particular essence pattern of intent embedded within.
Christ had/has a virtue to manifest, and work to perfect. We too have a virtue – essence pattern of intent – to manifest; we too have work – work to perfect.
Christ told us his food is to do the will of the one who sent him(JN4:34)… and heglorified God by perfecting the work for which he was sent.(JN17:4)Christ’s work was/is to createthe intended way of humankind, the “coming from above” way. Coming from above is an act of creation. Our work is to create something. We join in the unfolding creation by creating something. We join in the Creator’s eternalizing life work by joining in the purposeful cycles of work – making life whole, making life real, making life fruitful and making life wise. Each of these processes joins in the creation; for example…
Making life real… creating processes that seek to realize the potential of each and all… coming from essence… essence of self, of the land… essence of cultures that work for all children… manifesting that through spirit – accessing Spirit, taking up spirit manifesting work.
Before he died, Christ told us he was leaving, but sending the Spirit of truth. The Spirit being food – seeing and hearing – for doing/perfecting the work for which we were sent… the Spirit being essential to creation, to ongoing “from above” creating.
All of which calls for our seeing virtue as process, taking virtues as process into the working of the world. For example, thankfulness/gratefulness is a particular organization of virtue – if it comes from love. Contrast politely saying thank you with truly being thankful/grateful as we go about our daily doings.
Each and all come from above, come from the one and same Source; each and all enter into life with a virtue – a particular essence pattern of intent – to manifest, and particular work to perfect… all of which calls for ongoingly intentionally “Coming from above, wisdom leading, love entering, life unfolding.”
Terry P. Anderson & Sandra Maslow Smith
