“For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our Heavenly Dwelling … And indeed, when we someday remove ourselves from it, we will not be found naked.”  ~ Paul (2 Corinthians 5:2-3)

 

While it is not clear what Paul actually meant with this passage (sometimes his teachings stumbled upon a harmony with enlightened, unconditional Love, and many other times they did not), we can indeed reconcile these words with The Way of Jesus Christ — when we see “the tent” here as our physiological body and its primitive desires (including our mental mind and its self-centered fears and yearnings) …

Indeed, whenever we succumb to such instinctive impulses, our True Self does indeed “groan” in its longing for the re-manifestation of our Soul’s far more noble, and far more Caring inclinations.  And when we do inevitably choose to throw off this “tent” of callous greed, we will indeed not be found spiritually “naked.”  Quite to the contrary, in the very moment we choose to emerge from our grungy unspiritual domiciles smeared with the stench of callous selfishness & arrogant violence, we will in-Deed find ourselves clothed in a truly brilliant raiment; a cloak of selfless Giving, a robe of courageous Love, and a crown of Bliss-filled Peace.

 

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