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April 21-B, 2023

Orthodox Christian Theology has been around from well before the beginning of this country. “God” is assumed to be, taken for granted as, the background prop holding things together. “The Father Almighty.” “The Maker of Heaven and Earth.” “Garden of Eden,” “Sin,” “Atonement,” “Forgiveness,” “Hell,” “Blah, Blah, Blah…” All of it has been invented/inherited throughContinue reading “April 21-B, 2023”

April 21-A, 2023

“We are on the brink of something great!” What a difference for our country and the world if the Republican Party 60 years ago had made that the foundation of every Platform in every election cycle! And lived to make it happen! But it was not to be. The foundation of every platform in everyContinue reading “April 21-A, 2023”

April 20-B, 2023

Some ways of being in the world are better/worse than other ways of being in the world. Being Jesus is being ourselves with a particular spin on it. Being Jesus is also being the Buddha, and being Lao Tzu, and Chung Tzu, and Lei Tzu, and Wen Tzu… and all those who have known whatContinue reading “April 20-B, 2023”

April 20-A, 2023

By upgrading our grace quotient– that is, the amount of grace we exhibit in our life day-to-day– and making in depth inquiries into how graciously we live, with kindness and compassion for all that comes our way, we will be setting in motion a way of life that receives well all things in our path,Continue reading “April 20-A, 2023”

April 19-B, 2023

We can easily make things worse trying to make them better, and we can make them worse being afraid to try making them better. What to do cannot depend on thinking it out. We have to act when the time for acting is upon us and work things out as well as we can inContinue reading “April 19-B, 2023”

April 19-A, 2023

Everything is coincidental/accidental, and, “The more we practice, the luckier we get,” but expectations and plans still get in the way because things do not often go the way we expect and plan. Each day we step into circumstances that are the result of prior circumstances and culminate in consequential circumstances which generate additional circumstances,Continue reading “April 19-A, 2023”

April 18 – B, 2023

There is no Why? There is no Because!” There is no Master Plan. There is no Plan of any kind. There is no reason for things being the way they are. Things are the way they are in response to something else being the way it is/was. BUT! Not BECAUSE something else is/was the wayContinue reading “April 18 – B, 2023”

April 18 – A, 2023

We need more time! If we only had more time! Everything would become clear with time! That is the fundamental illusion. Jesus perpetuated the folly with his, “Wisdom is known by her children” line, and even if we extend the theory to the level of the grandchildren, or the great-grandchildren, wisdom still lies unrecognized byContinue reading “April 18 – A, 2023”

April 17 – C, 2023

Until the church renounces its theology and embraces its role as children/servants of the light, rejecting sin and embracing seeing, it will remain a relic of wistful thinking, delusion, deception and denial. As things stand, the church is only a slight shift in perspective away from turning the light around, understanding metaphor, not fact, toContinue reading “April 17 – C, 2023”

April 17 – B, 2023

What’s money for? Buying what’s needed to do what needs to be done. Buying the tools required for the work. What’s the work? Being servants of the light. Asking the questions that beg to be asked. Saying the things that cry out to be said. Being who the situation calls us to be. Doing whatContinue reading “April 17 – B, 2023”

April 17-A, 2023

Photography is being where the photos live and waiting for them to appear. I stalk photographs like a leopard stalks a warthog. I troll for photographs the way shrimpers troll for shrimp. I get up early to be in place before sunrise, and stay out late to catch afterglow following sunset. I wait, and wait,Continue reading “April 17-A, 2023”

April 16-B, 2023

The Great Migration is going to change the way we do business in this country, and the way we live, and the way we think. The Third world is closer that we realize. When the coastal cities have to relocate because of too much water, and the population of the western states has to moveContinue reading “April 16-B, 2023”