October 22, 2025

When we toss theology and doctrine, all of which was invented by the Church of Rome during the 400 years between Jesus' crucifixion and the closing of the Canon, with the Church coming up with the catchy slogan, "This is what Jesus did for you and you are going straight to hell if you don't believe what we say and do what we tell you to do!" And when we toss that, we are left with That Which Has Always Been Called "God," without the theology and doctrine, to revere, honor, know and serve with all of our life and being--for the sheer joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it.

Theology and doctrine have always been grounded on our projection/imagination based on our experience with That Which Has Always Been Called "God," which is beyond which we cannot go in explaining the origin of life and being, and all of which we lump together as "God's will" in explaining everything we cannot otherwise begin to understand, coincidence, synchronicity, intuition, and the sense that everything seems to work together somehow to produce the lives we all are living as though they are part of some marvelous plan from the start.

Our experience takes us to the threshold of mystery, which we cannot leave alone, but must take apart, analyze, explain, define and duplicate in our own zeal to be in complete control of all things, and not at the mercy of "time and chance happening to us all."

Once we concede "time and chance happening to us all," we are free to explore our relationship with that which cannot be explained/understood/controlled to serve our ends and desires, we free to live without will and desire, simply doing what is called for when, where and how it is called for and, as Lao Tzu suggested around a thousand years before Jesus was born, "Let nature take its course."

On one hand this threatens us to the core to be at the mercy of nature taking its course, and on another hand, it is totally thrilling and delightful to not know what is going to happen next and what we will do about it in service to what is called for here, now in every situation as it arises throughout our life--in service to and relationship with the mystery at the heart of life and being.