Bonus: The Gift (A Meditation on Advent)

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Jim Finley offers an Advent meditation on the gift of God in and as our lives. In this teaching, Jim provides an image of this gift, the invitation to awaken to its presence, habituate it through practice, and offer it back to the world. In expressive poetic form and mystical knowing, Jim will draw you into the mystical significance of the Advent season. We will return in March with our 3rd mystic, St. John of the Cross! Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cacac.org.
0:08.9	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.8	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to this bonus episode of Turning to the Mystics.
0:27.0	It's coming to you in a time of Advent, which is such a significant time in the Christian calendar that we thought Jim might help us pause and take a moment to reflect on this mystical meaning of advent.
0:45.0	So, Jim, thank you for taking the time to lead us in this reflection.
0:48.0	Yes, thank you very much, Christian.
0:50.0	Thank you, yes.
0:52.0	Yes. Thank you know I must say actually I had something else prepared and then just
1:00.9	this morning as I was preparing, I have this image I want to share with you now came to me,
1:08.0	something that I've shared a long time ago. I haven't thought of it in quite a while, so'll share it I'll share it and then we'll do a little
1:15.1	sit at the end as a kind of a mystical sensitivity to the mystery of the birth of Christ in our life.
1:27.0	The image here is a kind of a parable or a story of imagining that there's a child who dreams of having a pony.
1:37.0	And as Christmas is approaching, the child tells the parents how much,
1:42.0	you'd love to have this pony but child also makes her
1:45.8	she's very aware that it's too much to hope for you know to hope for a pony but as
1:51.3	it so happens the parents get the pony.
1:55.0	And they keep it hidden away.
1:57.0	And on Christmas morning, when the child comes out under the Christmas tree,
2:01.0	there's the presents there and the child
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