| Precepts of Frank Corless 1. I recognize that there is a higher being I call God that throughout my life seems to have called me towards. At the present most description seems to pale yet my moments of sanity and peacefulness have a connectedness with God. For this reason I keep coming back to my childhood learning and state that I recognize that I am called to know, love,and serve God. It is from this that all my precepts seem to come. 2. To Know God is to be aware of life. To be aware of the present and to truly experience life moment by moment. To know God is to constantly shift perception and recognize newness and creativity at work. To know God is a challenge for each time I begin to think I understand and grow complacent is when I most often lose any knowing. I recognize in this the call and challenge to stay open and aware to knowing God. Knowing God is to know creation. Knowing me, Knowing my fellow humanity, and all that I perceive through awareness. 3. To Love God means experiencing love not just as emotion but also as decision. Key to this love is the term unconditional love. This love is non judgemental and interactive; therefore two way. When I numb out or block off or choose fear, love does not stop but I cut myself off from the recognition and experience loss. I therefore seek to live aware and open to all experience as a decision and commitment as I believe God does for me. At the heart of this decision is to remain respectful. Love is not ownership or holding on or control. Love is more to do with acceptance. 4. To Serve God once would have overwhelmed me. One could probably write volumes of ways and ideas and wear oneself out in the trying to accomplish things as acts of service. It strikes me as I write that to serve God is to honour one's commitment to knowing and loving God. To live a life-giving life. Staying connected and interactive with all forms God takes moment by moment and allowing the God within to be alive is that service. Here I remind myself that I have the 10 Commandments and Jesus's simplification into two: "Love God with your whole being and to Love your neighbour as yourself. In this is my understanding of life giving. |