For the past month, I've been reading daily through Jean-Yves Leloup's The Gospel of Thomas, complete with commentary. It has been such a blessing to let these wisdom sayings drip into my heart. I am grateful to Cynthia Bourgeault for her recommendation.
I read this "Logion" (saying) this morning--similar to a very familiar passage of Scripture in the canonical Gospels, and almost skipped the commentary because of the familiarity of the saying. I'm so glad I didn't.
Logion 66
Yeshua said:
Show me the stone rejected by the builders.
That is the cornerstone.
Can a society be built without Love or, in another term, without God? Can it hold together without this cornerstone?
Such a society holds together through common interests but collapses through special interests.
Love has been excluded from our theories of economics, as well as from our educational curricula. Sometimes people even exclude it from their lives. We can exist without love, without God. But what is such an existence worth?
In our own life we must look deeply enough to examine honestly what we have habitually rejected from the edifice of our personality. Might it be a certain desire, a certain longing, or even an experience of hell?
The rejected cornerstone can be hidden in the most surprising places. Sometimes our wholeness wells up from the very heart of what we have repressed.
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