November 09, 2023 – A

Jesus is the archetypal human being,
doing the right thing,
at the right time 
in the right place and way,
time after time.

So was Betty White,
Helen Wolfe,
Iris Dement,
Dolly Parton
and thousands more
through the ages.

And we all have shown 
flashes and sparks of Jesus
here and there
over the course of our life,
doing things exactly as they
needed to be done.

Rising to the occasion,
surprising everyone
including ourselves.

The surgery center
where my cataract surgery was done
is filled with people being Jesus,
with a team of people
who know what their job is 
and do it as it needs to be done
in the way it needs to be done every day.

When we live our life as it needs us to live it,
we are Jesus incarnated then and there.
Jesus couldn't do better.

Are you soaking up 
what I'm pouring out here?

Being Jesus is as easy
as doing what's called for
in the moment unfolding before us,
with nothing in it for us,
beyond the joy of doing it
and the satisfaction of having done it,
knowing no one could do it better.

We all could do it 
in each situation as it arises,
if we came into the moment
out of the right kind of emptiness,
stillness and silence.

It's automatic, instantaneous, 
natural.

It's the flow of life and being
in time and place, here and now.

Spontaneous, unplanned, unthought.

Even turtles do it.
And sea urchins.
Butterflies and apple trees...

And you,
and me.

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