1 Corinthians 8:6 · World English Bible
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
Everything that exists is water poured from a single source, taking the shape and color of whatever cup receives it, yet never becoming a second sea. The quiet idolatry this exposes is crediting the cup: loving the gift, the giver's name, one's own role, as if any of it stood alone.
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Everything that exists is water poured from a single source, taking the shape and color of whatever cup receives it, yet never becoming a second sea. The quiet idolatry this exposes is crediting the cup: loving the gift, the giver's name, one's own role, as if any of it stood alone.
The cure is to trace each good thing up the stream and hand the thanks there. What looks like many things flowing and many lives held up is one giving, seen from where the pouring starts and where it lands.
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Which gift have you been crediting to the cup instead of the source?
The Tao flows out into everything and claims none of it. Each thing takes its shape from the one flow, and the flow never announces itself.
The many are one appearing as many, the way clay takes a hundred shapes and is still clay. What you are tracing back through every good thing is the same single ground.
He kept reminding himself that all things are woven together from one source, and that the part cannot be loved apart from the whole it came out of.
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