Spiritual Partnership
This image from a garden in Taormina, Sicily was was taken by Alan Misson the developer of one of my favorite Swedenborgian Sites www.spiritualwisdom.org.uk. What a great depiction of congugial angels, partners in heaven. This is one of my favorite aspects of Swedenborgian spirituality. The strong conviction that our propensity to love one another here on earth, is not just a physiological drive, or convenience, but a deep spiritual call that continues unto eternity.
When we enter into loving partnership with another human being, when we decide to face life together, we are signing up for a grand adventure that as Swedenborg describes will deepen our individual humanity, widen our capacity for compassion and joy, and etch out and complete our personal character. And this adventure, continues far beyond our physical lives.
I love to imagine myself throwing my head back on a sunny day in heaven in the arms of my conjugial partner. Setting off on an adventure together with our bags packed!
While discovering love and making love stay are not always easy tasks, it is profound to consider them divinely ordained, gifts from God, and tasks that lead not to an end, but a continuing adventure!
June 16 2008 02:49 pm | Partnership
