July 31, 2023 – B

We exhibit/express our "Jesusness"
with responses that are appropriate to the occasion
in each situation as it arises.

Jesus failed to do that only twice
in facing the situations we know about:
cursing the fig tree,
and his silence before Pilate's 
"What is truth?"
(One proper reply would have been,
"The bed you slept in last night,
and the world you woke up to this morning").

We feel our way into what is right for each here/now--
we do not think our way to right--
once we know what that is,
thinking helps us find the best way to do it
under the circumstances,
meaning that feeling and thinking are equal partners
in the work of seeing what's what
and doing what needs to be done about it
with the gifts of our original nature
and the innate characteristics/vitures
that are ours at birth.

We each live to bring our "Jesusness" to live
in the time and place of our living,
without doctrine, theology, dogma and creeds
mussing things up with dogmatic assertions
about what is right and wrong.

"The spirit is like the wind that blows where it will,"
means there are no dogmatic assertions 
lighting our way.

"The path that can be discerned
is not a reliable path."

We find the path that is the way
by feeling our way in sync with the flow
of vitality, zeal, life and being--
which is the Tao that fills us with 
enthusiasm for the task
and invites us to follow our heart
and allow it to light the way
through the uncertainty of each moment
as the moved being led by the mover
situation by situation,
all our life long.