MEDITATION
"DEVOTION"

GOOD
NEWS

THE whole chebang IN A NUTSHELL

"‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

JESUS the CHRIST

HEAVEN is a JOYFUL PLACE full of GLORY
(deep, deeper still; it's all about *THIS*)

DIGNITY - DECENCY - COMPETENCE - CAMRADERIE

The Art of Living: its Mastery (Imagine It. Our Knowledge is forever Limited)
The ship drives east. The ship drives west. Whatever the gale that blows, it is the set of the sail and not the gale that determines the way she goes.     ++++++++++ I HOPE YOU RECOGNIZE THE LIGHT WHEN IT HITS YOU     KEEPER OF PERSPECTIVE   MAGNIFICENT BEING INCREDIBLE MIRROR BEAUTIFUL BRAIN DEEP TALK: AT THE EDGE OF A GATE   So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
a MOST NOBLE TRUST (HE'EMIN) What a DIFFERENCE this makes!
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. quote, Jesus, The Counselor

 

RECONCILED - rightly related - set apart - embodied love, joy, peace - a marvel of such meditations, the fullness of each story, is how sweetly, how generously, each ending opens a gate to its very beginning - which is a newer beginning - uh! - filling out its story that much fuller to its ending then back again - compatible - richer and deeper then back again, ever more awesome in its revelation: DEEP TALK. Same, and yet, not the same! Sweeter - that bold beautiful vision of life! Enter through the narrow gate. I hope you find it.

 

EXPLORE: Sermon on The Mount (the series)
EXPLORE: The Lord's Prayer (the series)

"Encourage one another. Build one another up."

A New Creation

Nicolette Sowder

"Give me the wild children with their bare feet and sparkling eyes. The restless, churning climbers. The wild ones using their outside voices, singing all the way home. Give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers dreaming of mountains and mud, aching to run through a field of stars."

Isaiah, the Prophet

"Rise up, shine, because your light has come. The glory of Yahweh has risen upon you. Look, darkness has covered the land. Deep darkness covers the people. But Yahweh will rise upon you. His glory will appear over you, and nations will come to your light."

Bishop Gene Robinson

"It's funny isn't it? That you can preach a judgmental and vengeful and angry God and nobody will mind. But you start preaching a God that is too accepting, too loving, too forgiving, too merciful, too kind . . . and you are in trouble."

Desmond Tutu

"You may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.."

Salt of The Soil

SAND is not SALT

Be who YOU are! If you don't like what you are, TRANSFORM

Do what it takes! If you don't like where you're headed, TURN

The BEST you is you. Be you! Don't lose your salt.

Let's consider Charles Mackay: "You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight."

In the call to LOVE our ENEMIES
two fascinating questions arise:
Who is my enemy?
Who is my neighbor?

An Intriguing & Revealing Meditation

Dear God, grant me victory today over all that assails. Help me square up to even the greatest challenges and claim authority over them, unafraid. Amen.

Joshua Dubois
PRAYERS

"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something."

- John Lewis

EACH DAY an OPPORTUNITY to LEARN

(beyond religiosity, beyond judgment, beyond pretense)

Be ENCOURAGED to go DEEPER and fly HIGHER

Isn't it Good to Grow as YOU GO? Seek Wisdom.