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

The IN-BETWEEN Moments

BALANCE - HARMONY - WISDOM

BEING ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING
"... the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline." (to Tim)   Life is jammed full of in-between moments! It is where most all of living occurs. If so, what does that imply or mean? How does the good life reveal itself there? What is that living for? What is that good news? Why does one want to abide there if one so chooses? What does one do with what it offers? Why do so many hunger for a long life, implying healthy fruitful life? Fascinating! Life is jammed full of in-between moments. Or does it? We do know a strong sense of purpose and quality of relationships play humungous roles in a person's life experience. Here are some news, good news, and awesome news.   THOUGHT EXPERIMENT An astronaut, an alien, an angel, a being with global visual super ability STANDING SAFE on THE OUTSIDE LOOKING in upon life on earth; WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? ✓ God with us - Christ in us? ✓ Chaos and Calamities? ✓ Phobias and Diseases? ✓ Heaven on Earth? Moment for MEDITATION ♥
Evil is evil. It knows no bounds. Evil is crafty but it is not smart. Jesus provides us with strong examples of dealing with evil. God is God. We have available to us God's intimate relationship. Prayer. Meditation. Discernment. The Spirit discerns. God is God. For those of us following Jesus, we must be particularly aware of a vicious form of deception, which masquerades in garments of unchecked trust and uses it to slyly co-op others into the spread of its bitter wickedness - blatantly - this kind requires noted discernment lest one resigns to its bidding without question, spoling one's own exemplary work. It is vicious. This is not about lifestyle or the relative stages of one's journey; this is about becoming a pawn. Don't spoil your joy; don't damage your being and your work by becoming its unwitting tool in the shadow of its snicker. The work of and service for the Lord are diverse. As always, if you are in the service of God, do what God tells you to do; let no one else stop you or convince you to do what they are commissioned to do. Don't succumb to hate. Reflect God's love. 8 billion reflections. It's fascinating. God is unfathomably huge. (End of Sermon. For sermons click here.)

 

God-the-Creator's demonstrated continual interest is the wellbeing of all of us. There is something enormously special about love. Uniquely transformative. Fascinating.

 

EXAMINE: The Super Cool Super Power (The Code)
EXPLORE: Bring mind, heart, soul, scapel, shovel, lens. (LOVE)

"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.."

Ekhart Tolle

"There's a huge amount of suffering that is generated not by the actual challenges of life but by the fictitious problems that the mind creates."

Lala Delia

"Build a circle of friends who are genuine, who are safe energetically, who are mature spiritually, who hold space and not animosity, who hold compassion and not judgment, who take time to check on you and your process, who grow through life with you, and genuinely wish you well."

ANONYMOUS

"Life doesn't allow us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow us to live each day better than our last."

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.

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)

PROVEN HABITS of SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITIES

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