December 25, 2023 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Guilford County Barn 01 08/26/2010 — Greensboro, North Carolina, Before the housing development bought the land
I would like a sit-down talk with Jesus
to explore what he thought he was doing.

Continuing the work of John the Baptist is my guess.
Assuming the roll of a prophet
calling Israel back to it's covenant pledge 
to be the people of God in the Land of Promise.

Repentance was nothing more involved
than getting back to who they were called to be.

His "You have heard it said, 
but I say unto you..."
was a bold reinterpretation
of the old prophetic understanding
of the covenant.

And his "In as much as you have done it,
or failed to do it
to one of the least of my 
brothers and sisters,
you have done it or failed to do it
unto me,"
was an equally bold call to be who Jesus was
in his life's role as an exhibition
of how the people of God were to be.

Nothing about erasing the shame
of Adam and Eve,
or removing the burden of their actions.
Just the call to be the people 
who would be as God is
from the earliest Old Testament times
and it was clear that "the Father and I are one"
was to be apparent in the life of all people.

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Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

6 thoughts on “December 25, 2023 – A”

    1. We did Christmas as well as it can be done–and hope you and yours did so as well! We live in the same zip code with our 3 daughters, 5 granddaughters, and 1 great granddaughter, so traveling is not an issue and cooking is shared by all. It is always an enjoyable two or three days! My only problem with Christmas is that it is too close to Thanksgiving!

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      1. That is absolutely fortunate and fantastic!
        First this holiday feasting season, but soon comes the New year resolution time! Have no worries, you can resume to burn all the extra calories from cooking and the celebrations during your ‘photography chasing walks’ in the new year!! Ha ha ha

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