All you can pass on is what you have become

My daily meditation email, which I actually don't read daily, reminded me a bit of my bliss post. I thought such concurrence merited another post.

"All belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God" 1 Corinthians 3:22-23

All you can pass on is what you have become; that is your blessing and gift for your children, your loved ones, your neighborhood, and the next generation, “grace upon grace” (John 1:16). Divine love bestowed is repaid by love alone.

Our lives seem small and insignificant, yet one life is a significant piece of the eternal and cosmic Christ, a short moment of Incarnation that is building up the Body of God.

You belong to God’s universe because everything belongs. Every part of you belongs, and no part need be rejected or denied, but only educated, healed, forgiven, and set free in new form. . . .

Nothing is ever wasted in God’s economy. All is transformed. Grace is everywhere.

- Fr Richard Rohr