A Stand-Alone Boy and the Utterly Profound Touch of Heaven - Jones, Arthur Lucas
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"Seeing thoughts as text", to quote a creative poet, has been part of what is attempted here. The Child at Bethlehem who became the adult Jesus of Nazareth has never left us. He left no money or property. He left the Paraclete as his Voice and listener. We do not pray through a ceiling, we pray to "someone who calls out alongside us" and brings our prayers to the heart of God. I have been conversing with Jesus every day since I was a child. Prayer is both speaking and listening to God. The term used to describe this process and experience is The Utterly Profound Touch of Heaven. I call its…mehr

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"Seeing thoughts as text", to quote a creative poet, has been part of what is attempted here. The Child at Bethlehem who became the adult Jesus of Nazareth has never left us. He left no money or property. He left the Paraclete as his Voice and listener. We do not pray through a ceiling, we pray to "someone who calls out alongside us" and brings our prayers to the heart of God. I have been conversing with Jesus every day since I was a child. Prayer is both speaking and listening to God. The term used to describe this process and experience is The Utterly Profound Touch of Heaven. I call its practice Conversational Spirituality and I want to share it. It is based on our innate capacity to turn thoughts into speech and listen for the response and then turn our thoughts into texts for the guidance of life. That's how the New Testament was written. Welcome the Christ as we speak and listen to him through his bequeathed Voice in the world, the Paraclete. We speak, and we listen. That's how we talked to God so naturally as children. Let's recapture it! We are speech-making beings, and there is no point in speech without a listener to respond. The brand here is Christian, but it applies with great respect across the board to all faiths and wider spiritual searches. A scientist uses many lenses to see the universe and we use many lenses to 'see' God. Sometimes we stand-alone to do it, as with the boy and man in this book. My personal life has its unusual traits, for my profession, in that I have been married three times. That is not hidden here. A trail of sadness has followed me, as well as a trail of joy. Read on to follow the unusual aspects of my story ultimately as a Bishop of the Church. I pay tribute to those leaders of the Church who gave me permission via compassion to emerge with someone at my side who encouraged me to stay "fully alive" as a person of faith. That is a great gift of love and forgiveness. This story is set in very diverse backgrounds and cultures. The spirituality herein depends on the "still small voice of God" answering our speech when it is projected into the mystery of God. That is a clear test of faith in the "Numinous", the Divine Presence.
Autorenporträt
My name is Bishop Arthur Jones. I was born on the Western Plains of New South Wales Australia and I reflect my bush background. The bush code was that one should not take a backward step, never say die, and never give in. This encouraged a strong sense of independence and resistance to having anyone take charge of the essential elements of one's being and destiny. It also promoted difficulties when one met up with people of the same mind! I left school at the age of 15 because that's as far as the education went in my hometown. I went to work straight away and had several jobs before I entered Theological College at the age of 28, What happened to me after that is recounted in my autobiography. I was ordained an Anglican priest in 1967 and a Bishop in 1994. After I retired in 2001 I began a ministry in Asia and Latin America that expanded everything that I had done before. I had previously acquired the Spanish language in Panama and now I learned Tagalog in the Philippines. My other path was an academic one which I followed with some zeal after being denied it in my youth. This culminated in a PhD in New Testament Studies in 1998 and a Masters in Counselling and Human Services in 2003, both from La Trobe University in Melbourne. My autobiography includes all of these matters and much more. I am presently writing another book entitled The Abiding Genius of Jesus the Universal Pilgrim. I am a mystic with an intellectual passion and profound sense of walking with the one I call the Stranger from Galilee. Yeshua, as he was called in Galilee, has been the centre of my life since childhood, though I am very open to the spiritual verities of other Faiths. I am not interested in starkly dark pictures of the human soul and much more interested in the radiance within that has been within us since creation. I have experienced personal sadness in my life and also rich inputs and sharing from those who have enhanced my concepts of love.