June 21, 2026 – B

We have to take it all just as it is! We cannot throw any of it away–or run away from any of it! We have to square up to it as well as we are able. Jesus said it well! “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And no one comes to the Father but by me! And he was talking about each of us! We are all the way, the truth and the life, and the “Father” Jesus was talking about was the Tao that the old Shaman/Taoists who lived 5,000 years before Jesus realized was flowing through all things, Yin/Yang “and all that jazz.” The Tao is our Father! Is our Maker! Is Who We Are! “The Father and I are one!” This was Jesus’ realization/recognition. We are all one with the Tao/Father/God/Psyche/Intuition… We only have to throw theology away to know it is so. The Parable of the Prodigal Son, which Jesus told ditched the idea of Original Sin and the need of Atonement and Redemption. The Father runs to meet the Son before the Son can reel off his Litany of Confession and Repentance. “Get out of here with that stuff” says the Father, “You were lost and now you are found! You were dead and now. you are alive!” The Prodigal was resurrected before Jesus was! We are all resurrected! “Converted and Transformed,” is how Einstein put it. And we can get a head start by bringing our best to bear on life just as it is, which is all Jesus did, and all he called his disciples and the people of his day to do! “No one comes to the Father but by me!” Not by believing in Jesus as our savior. We don’t need saving. We need waking up and being who we are, here, now. By doing it like Jesus did it! As only we can do it like we can do it! Just being ourselves and doing our life like we would do it–just like babies do their life just like they would do it. And Jesus said, “Unless you turn and become like children you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” An children have no theology. But they are themselves! So was Jesus. And he had no theology either.