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 Transfiguration of the Lord (Orthodox Christian)

     That truth, that our lives' deepest meaning will be found in Love, is also the truth tha moves us, from within, to recognize in every neighbor (both human and non-human) an expression of the divine creativity and to reverence each one.  It means honoring the integrity of each other person in his or her own path to truth.  That truth not only removes the scales from our eyes to allow us to recognize the evils of violence and injustice when we see them but simultaneously gives us hearts of flesh to respond in compassion.  That is the truth we would want to speak to the powers-that-be:  exposing, naming those evils os systemic poverty, militarism, injustice, discrimination, hatred of someone "diferent," because our hearts ache with the truth that we are all sisters and brothers, we all live from the one Source of life, a God who is Love.

p. 29   'Doing the Truth in Love"  by Elaine M. Prevallet, SL    from magazine Weavings, a journal of the Christian Spiritual Life  Volume XXI, number 3   May/June 2006