tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58392861123118656822024-03-17T23:02:26.444-04:00Spiritual Reflections by Marshall DavisMeditations on Culture, Religion and SpiritualityMarshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.comBlogger555125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-77076574770230996812024-03-10T10:37:00.000-04:002024-03-10T10:37:03.128-04:00 Escape from Freedom <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHk79IziXH9MHRIaHLuIZOMeOqg0MmYPWSdxAQ3k0hq38MRbHIZ2WikO9tcz-OzIrgsDrdrRD0kIynhhALlD2dogv4tS_6kUOmY450xIVgIr3eO1PZLMlsH4IuKbFzp4J9P4YWbadwrCLlY9lR6KTMEkrbbaWMiUzn230pQ4y95LPkphFy89F6qauTCXn/s400/GAB_Rally_Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="234" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHk79IziXH9MHRIaHLuIZOMeOqg0MmYPWSdxAQ3k0hq38MRbHIZ2WikO9tcz-OzIrgsDrdrRD0kIynhhALlD2dogv4tS_6kUOmY450xIVgIr3eO1PZLMlsH4IuKbFzp4J9P4YWbadwrCLlY9lR6KTMEkrbbaWMiUzn230pQ4y95LPkphFy89F6qauTCXn/w101-h174/GAB_Rally_Poster.jpg" width="101" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">freshman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in college, I read Erich Fromm’s famous 1941 book </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Escape from Freedom</span><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Fromm was a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany. He explored the reasons why people would willingly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">submit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to authoritarian rule. He </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">theorized </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that humans either embrace freedom or </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seek</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to escape from it. </span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: arial; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Embracing freedom is healthy and cour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ageous. Yet many people </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seek</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">escape from freedom </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by means of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> psychological escape mechanisms. Fromm </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identified</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> three main mechanisms</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">:</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> automaton conformity, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">author</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">itarianism</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and destructiveness. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{f5b741e2-4ba5-404c-88b5-ec65ee9c5947}{124}" paraid="1767682633" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Automaton</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> conformity</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is conforming to a group’s preferred type of personality, losing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">one's self</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in the process. It t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ransfers </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the burden of choice from self to society. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{f5b741e2-4ba5-404c-88b5-ec65ee9c5947}{124}" paraid="1767682633" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Authoritarianism </span><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is giving control of oneself to a political movement or leader. By surrendering one's freedom to someone else, the freedom of choice is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lmost entirely</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">removed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{06037625-0372-4b06-a7e2-cff44f147a07}{216}" paraid="898781824" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Destructiveness </span><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is the attempt to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eliminate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> others </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in order to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> escape freedom. If that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">means genocide, overthrowing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a government, overturning an </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">election</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> or burning down the country, so be it. Fromm said that "the destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{09625c10-12e1-4ed8-a38f-e4a9db9cc332}{166}" paraid="2084091186" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Later in college I read Sinclair Lewis’ 1936 novel </span><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Can’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Happen Here</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. It describes how a Hitleresque politician rose to power in the United States to become the first American dictator. These days I find myself recalling the insights I received from reading these two books. Now it seems like it could happen here after all.</span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{ce1b03fa-eab2-4039-8eb4-abbf2bee03bd}{13}" paraid="434370430" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I watch American politics today, and I see life imitating art. History is repeating itself, or at least it is echoing. As Mark Twain is anecdotally reported to have said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” If that is true, then the 2020’s are rhyming with the 1930’s. </span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{3b82c669-088c-43af-a1a6-18c3d238d557}{68}" paraid="1891382631" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">On February 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, attended by more than </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">20,000 </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">patrio</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tic Americans</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. It took place two days before George Washington's birthday and was promoted as a “Pro-American rally.” A huge portrait of Washington hung behind the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dais</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> with equally large American flags </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">draped</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> on either side. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{4860986f-2ec4-480c-8cf7-cb730665b1be}{208}" paraid="1935716315" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The National Anthem was sung. The American flag was saluted </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">… </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">with the Nazi salute. The rally was opened by James Wheeler-Hill, national secretary of the German American Bund, with the words: "If George Washington were alive today, he would be friends with Adolf Hitler." Fritz Julius Kuhn, a German Nazi activist, who served as the elected leader of the Bund, was the keynote speaker</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{de865c60-0cb1-481e-9163-64b2048bee40}{137}" paraid="405264762" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rally</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the Bund came under investigation, and its financial records were seized. It was discovered that $14,000 (about $273,000 in today’s currency) from the contributions raised during the rally was spent by Kuhn on his mistress and various personal expenses. Kuhn was convicted of embezzlement and sent to prison in December 1939.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{fcfedfa9-6c4f-4bd4-9744-c0b18d11f975}{75}" paraid="1180601404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Does any of this sound familiar? It does not take </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> historian to see parallels to today. I hear echoes of fascism every day in election year rhetoric. I hear rhymes of the 1930’s in the news every morning. Why is this happening? Fromm understood. People are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seeking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to escape freedom. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{da1e8bcd-9a92-4fc5-81c6-816ee5951722}{253}" paraid="1139220333" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">American society is changing rapidly, and that is threatening to people. Change threatens traditional religion, the traditional family, and traditional values. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> people take refuge in an imagined, unchanging, and idealistic past, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seeking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to bring back “the way things used to be.” People see this goal as an exercise of their freedom, but it is actually </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">escape</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from freedom. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{f205ffdf-39b3-4744-8ce0-0d69a2e42d06}{219}" paraid="1361408846" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">True freedom is freedom for all. Not just for me and people like me, but for those who are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very different</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from me. Religious freedom is not just for my religion but all religions. Not just for those of my sexual orientation, but all orientations. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{f205ffdf-39b3-4744-8ce0-0d69a2e42d06}{219}" paraid="1361408846" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It means allowing others to express themselves morally in ways that do not conform to my moral values. It is to refuse to use government power to control others’ behavior, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as long as</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it does not impinge on others’ freedom. True freedom is freedom for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> or it is not freedom at all. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{c3227dd1-64b9-491a-bcbf-3b27edad7d52}{215}" paraid="1048784360" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The same is true for spiritual freedom. It is tempting to surrender our freedom to religious authority. To believe only what our religious tradition tells us is safe to believe. To not color outside the lines. To consider our scriptures, our creeds, our leaders, our founders, our church, and our understanding of God to be infallible. There is security in believing we have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the one</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> true religion. But there is no freedom in such faith. It is only the illusion of freedom.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{6cfe2e75-5ebc-41bf-90fe-886df553bd3a}{49}" paraid="1694585350" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Freedom is a paradox. We love it, and we hate it. We imagine ourselves to be free when we are not. The more we examine our choices, the more we see how limited our freedom really is. Our thoughts, opinions and actions are largely (if not completely) </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">determined</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by unconscious forces beyond our control. When we realize how unfree we really are, then there is an opportunity to be </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">truly free</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{55717255-0cb3-4f22-ae85-ace12ed3be0e}{76}" paraid="888595289" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">True freedom requires a spiritual resurrection. We die to self and live to God. We view the world through the eyes of God. We see ourselves as God sees us. We see that only God is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">truly free</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and therefore we are free only in God … or as Christians say, “in Christ.” As Jesus said, “When the Son sets you free, you are free indeed.” </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77993162 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW77993162 BCX0" paraeid="{6ca581de-c0d3-4047-8bd4-097f0efe79a6}{182}" paraid="1964254528" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">When we are spiritually free, then political freedom does not scare us, neither our own freedom nor others’ freedom. We can be free and allow others to be free. To be free is to live authentically as one’s True Self, rather than living in bondage to the psychologically and socially conditioned personality that we mistake for our self. Then we can stop this mindless rush toward political Armageddon and take our rightful place as citizens of the Kingdom of God. </span><span class="EOP SCXW77993162 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-28435921050525185542024-02-26T13:09:00.000-05:002024-02-26T13:09:19.974-05:00Rewriting the Psalms <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKi0MYMHR7gIOpeRav2y1Y31Q_OMSzNvwQAZvoVTmUqzhZm1yUYwDptENGKYEKZ5yXX7HlxPXKlpdC22ROT-I69m6CHJwkNEzgLMdSPObkH8UpbIrPyG7QSpSlgP76cVqh0mAdYcrlCwNP1HWxzjP_rU8QxDXJ0QXjiJFbRHbW4L2rKZHS8Ku8LtZwwKe/s329/psalms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="314" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKi0MYMHR7gIOpeRav2y1Y31Q_OMSzNvwQAZvoVTmUqzhZm1yUYwDptENGKYEKZ5yXX7HlxPXKlpdC22ROT-I69m6CHJwkNEzgLMdSPObkH8UpbIrPyG7QSpSlgP76cVqh0mAdYcrlCwNP1HWxzjP_rU8QxDXJ0QXjiJFbRHbW4L2rKZHS8Ku8LtZwwKe/w108-h113/psalms.jpg" width="108" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This Lent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I am beginning </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a spiritual practice of rereading and rewriting the Psalms. This will take much longer than the forty days of Lent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">here are 150 psalms, and I am meditating on one psalm per day. It will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">take</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">considerably longer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> than </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">150 days</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> because some days I only do a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">portion</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of a psalm. There are some </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">really long</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> psalms in the Bible! </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div><p></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{4d9ac986-9086-4443-9fe4-3b4e45c352bd}{211}" paraid="1908500144" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The idea for this project came from a book that my wife is reading, entitled </span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness </span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by Nan Merrill. I have not read the book myself. That is intentional. I do not want to be influenced by her versions of the psalms. Anyway, the idea of rewriting psalms is not unique to her. Decades </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ago</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I used to lead retreatants in praying the psalms and writing their own psalms.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{4d9ac986-9086-4443-9fe4-3b4e45c352bd}{225}" paraid="33602491" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">My Lenten project is the same sort of thing. I am rewriting the psalms from a nondual mystical perspective. This is an untypical approach. Generally </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">speaking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the psalms are neither mystical </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">or</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> nondual. The psalms reflect the Hebrew spirituality of the time in which they were written and compiled</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">They are earthy and emotional. They are honest and disturbing. They can be violent at times. This is because they are products of the very human faith of the psalmists.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{4d9ac986-9086-4443-9fe4-3b4e45c352bd}{235}" paraid="436551867" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The psalms are also among many people’s favorite books of the Bible. They are among my </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">favorites</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> books. I took a course on the Psalms while in seminary, taught by respected Old Testament scholar Marvin Tate, who was later my faculty advisor for my doctoral studies. He was the author of two volumes in the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Word Biblical Commentary:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Psalms 51-100</span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Job</span><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. He also helped with Hebrew translation for the New International Version of the Bible. </span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{4d9ac986-9086-4443-9fe4-3b4e45c352bd}{253}" paraid="1197285872" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">He taught me how to interpret the Hebrew text of the psalms. Although I have forgotten most of the Hebrew I knew back when I was a seminary student, I have not forgotten the basic lessons he taught me. I am putting those to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">good use</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as I rewrite the psalms from a nondual perspective. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{b1438479-1d03-4df5-afb2-50dc2f37b40f}{8}" paraid="651727031" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Some might question my perspective in rewriting the psalms, thinking I am distorting the text. Yet every translation of the Bible is a rewriting of the text. Everyone who reads the psalms reinterprets them from their own perspective. We all rewrite the psalms in our minds as we read them, even if we are not aware of doing so. I am consciously reinterpreting them from a mystical perspective. </span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{b1438479-1d03-4df5-afb2-50dc2f37b40f}{14}" paraid="1087481410" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Christian church read these Jewish psalms in the light of the life and teachings of Jesus, thereby reinterpreting </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">them</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and shedding new light on the ancient texts. I interpret them in the light of the nondual teachings of Christ. Jesus invited us to be one with God as he is one with God. That is what he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. That is how I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">p</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ray</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the psalms. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{b1438479-1d03-4df5-afb2-50dc2f37b40f}{24}" paraid="953942404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This is an approach that not only transcends the differences between the Jewish and Christian faiths, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> transcends and includes all faiths. We live in a religiously pluralistic world. No religion is isolated from other faiths any longer. The internet has made that impossible. While traditional churches are dying, there is a blossoming of creative spirituality beyond the bounds of branded and monetized religion. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW66951453 BCX0" paraeid="{b1438479-1d03-4df5-afb2-50dc2f37b40f}{30}" paraid="944013357" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reaction</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW66951453 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to this spiritual ecumenism, some people are retreating into fundamentalism to escape perceived threats to their religion and their way of life. But many others are opening to the Perennial Wisdom at the heart of all spiritual traditions. It is from this latter perspective that I write. It is from this perspective that I rewrite the psalms. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW66951453 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-52209357381072865962024-02-20T09:15:00.000-05:002024-02-20T09:15:56.696-05:00 A Ribbon of Light <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsAKbxulLASfqS-gyZlSgg-qnUMpdO_xYjAU5x6rM8gk2hPcagiHR3mjHM6vBEvaQyKSqtCNl7ZKiEJD1FhKsUPWBUKTQUakv4ceuLWTCXD_rQgZa-Gz2OdiuN9KkMIXcafiHUHtPad9nQ7N305C85SuCyZAn2yMpwSWxks_R103UvpXs52dtNxlFdTaKh/s1821/ThinkPad-ThinkCentre_wallpaper2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1821" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsAKbxulLASfqS-gyZlSgg-qnUMpdO_xYjAU5x6rM8gk2hPcagiHR3mjHM6vBEvaQyKSqtCNl7ZKiEJD1FhKsUPWBUKTQUakv4ceuLWTCXD_rQgZa-Gz2OdiuN9KkMIXcafiHUHtPad9nQ7N305C85SuCyZAn2yMpwSWxks_R103UvpXs52dtNxlFdTaKh/w176-h139/ThinkPad-ThinkCentre_wallpaper2.png" width="176" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Every day I turn on my </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">laptop and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">am greeted with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the desktop</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> wallpaper. It depicts an evening scene on a beach. It is an example of what is called </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">long exposure</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> photography. The shutter was left open for several seconds while someone moved a light source to form a pattern. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> photo looks like a red and white ribbon of light hanging in the air. </span></span></div><p></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{a69a4ea1-4ea8-41b2-b2e5-2ac331bee560}{191}" paraid="760397250" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I used to take pictures like this back when I was a photographer for my high school newspaper and yearbook. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Usually</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the subject was just a friend writing a word with a flashlight. Often in such photos there is a blur of the person visible in the background, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">almost like</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a ghost. But if you do it correctly, the person is completely invisible. The pattern of light </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">appears to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> suspended in thin air. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{a69a4ea1-4ea8-41b2-b2e5-2ac331bee560}{205}" paraid="547863119" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I have been pondering this image recently. One might even say I have been meditating upon it. Several biblical verses have come to mind. One is Jesus’ teaching that that we are the light of the world. The other is his brother James’ words, “You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” The Teacher of Ecclesiastes made a similar observation, “Life is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fle</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ting, like a passing mist.” </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{a69a4ea1-4ea8-41b2-b2e5-2ac331bee560}{211}" paraid="1888931141" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The photo communicates to me the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fle</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ting nature of human existence. The spiritual teaching is known as impermanence. Our lives are brief appearances in the fabric of spacetime. A shooting </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">star</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. One could even say we are nothing at all. All we leave behind is a brief streak of light that is gone before a person blinks.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{a69a4ea1-4ea8-41b2-b2e5-2ac331bee560}{221}" paraid="2035042052" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I recall a scene in the old movie </span><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Time Machine</span><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, based on H. G. Wells’ famous novel. The main character is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">operating</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> his time machine in his workshop, watching the history of the world whiz by. At </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">first</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> he sees people come and go quickly. As he speeds it up, people become a blur and then invisible. He can see only buildings </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">arise</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fall</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Then he watches as civilizations rise and fall</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Geological eras pass. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{a69a4ea1-4ea8-41b2-b2e5-2ac331bee560}{247}" paraid="1728157969" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Speeding through time gives us an eternal viewpoint on our lives and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the human race</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as a whole. It puts things in perspective. It is easy to get bent out of shape by what happens during our lives. Elections seem so important </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">at the moment</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. We paint political choices in apocalyptic terms. If the other side wins it will be the end of our nation as we know it! </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Possibly the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> end of our world!</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{3fd8a41a-9c77-4aa9-87f6-fbcdd5ebe5d1}{16}" paraid="553636070" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Such </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eschatological</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> language </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fails to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> remember that this has always been the case. Jesus spoke in apocalyptic terms about the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. The Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse of John, saw the end of the world coming </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">with th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e fall of the Roman Empire. Yet Rome fell, and the world continues.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{3fd8a41a-9c77-4aa9-87f6-fbcdd5ebe5d1}{34}" paraid="1322414091" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The universe will survive with either Biden or Trump in the White House for four more years. The world will survive with or without </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the United States. The earth will survive fine without </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the human race</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. It prospered without our species for millions of years, and it will undoubtedly do better without us. Humans are nothing more than a blip in the history of the planet.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" paraeid="{3fd8a41a-9c77-4aa9-87f6-fbcdd5ebe5d1}{56}" paraid="895184186" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Our individual lives are even more ephemeral. Just a brief ribbon of light shining in the darkness. Our faces and names are forgotten quickly. It will be as if we never were. We are a momentary eddy in the river of time, a dust devil that takes form for a moment and dissipates. We are dust and to dust we shall return. That is what the preacher said on Ash Wednesday. </span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{2a0bb99e-31af-42b9-9f7b-bd7d36cb0aa3}{13}" paraid="189484998" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We are nothing. Yet we are. We know intuitively that we are more than these passing forms. Jesus knew this. He said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” We are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> which </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">does</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> not arise and fall in time. W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hen we see we are nothing,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we also see w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e are everything. The balance of these two is the fullness of truth. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW183759723 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{67452100-342d-4136-ac47-8282d06831c9}{27}" paraid="556179923" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Nisargadatta, the sage of Mumbai, said, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Wisdom says I am nothing. Love says I am everything. Between the two my life flows.” Jesus said, “You are the light of the world.... Let your light so shine that others might see your </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">good deeds</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW183759723 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and glorify your Father in heaven.” We are a ribbon of light shining for a moment in the twilight. Yet by that light people may glimpse the Kingdom of Heaven.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW183759723 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-91424214520142564542024-02-13T10:41:00.001-05:002024-02-13T10:41:58.910-05:00 Lenten Love <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjteiABmFysno2yijHv9JLc1YaX7lkZQHhNKF-7QNdRG-_FgGPhbHJv3NJymKr9d0dYG3rc1l7Zo8zX6d6JPUBiIouoF4Wjsn3bmdUCZiyd23SOhbbyI20KL2NyjWMGPPjzxDJlaM1zXIa2WUydPOHskARRCFhm52e0Lg066pE2y1n22AzUkcML9fEjqJeH/s326/heart.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="326" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjteiABmFysno2yijHv9JLc1YaX7lkZQHhNKF-7QNdRG-_FgGPhbHJv3NJymKr9d0dYG3rc1l7Zo8zX6d6JPUBiIouoF4Wjsn3bmdUCZiyd23SOhbbyI20KL2NyjWMGPPjzxDJlaM1zXIa2WUydPOHskARRCFhm52e0Lg066pE2y1n22AzUkcML9fEjqJeH/w200-h148/heart.png" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which also happens to be Valentine’s Day </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">this</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> year. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The coincidence of these two holidays naturally leads me to ponder the relationship between Lent and Love. </span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This year is special to me because my wife, Jude, and I celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary last month. We did not go overboard in the celebration. No big party or gifts. We simply shared a meal with our sons and their families at a local restaurant. Our daughter really wanted to celebrate with us, but it was too far to travel from western Pennsylvania for a meal. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{177}" paraid="2089737314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It may not have been a big party, but it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was a big deal</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for Jude and me. We have been </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">married for</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> twice as long as we were unmarried. I call her “my love.” That is how I address all my cards to her. I always have. She is the love of my life. It was not love at first sight, but it was love at first dance. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{183}" paraid="1948461000" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Our first date in college was at an all-night dance marathon. It has been </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">love</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ever since, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">n spite of the fact that</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I am not a great dancer. I even took dancing lessons as an adolescent. My father was a wonderful dancer, and my mother wanted me to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">f</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ollow in his footsteps</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.. literally. It </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">idn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">work. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{203}" paraid="1796361260" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Unlike the Gerswhins</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, who wrote their famous song </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nearly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> century</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ago, I ain't</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> got rhythm. (Neither has Jude, but </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> tell her I said that!) We took ballroom dancing lessons back in the last century to address our dance impairment. I remember practicing in the basement of the church, but it did not help either of us much. As a couple we still have four left feet. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{209}" paraid="1899226501" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I have been blessed to share this earthly life with the most wonderful, loving, kind-hearted, beautiful, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">spiritually-minded</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, woman imaginable. I do not know why I am so blessed. She has been my rock. Together we have built our home upon the Rock of Ages. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{215}" paraid="56252918" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If I had to credit our lasting love for each other, I would credit it to our partnership in faith. The spiritual life has been a priority for both of us. At our </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wedding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the song “We are One in the Spirit” was sung, as well as Dylan’s “If Not for You.” Those two songs sum up our lives. We got married on the evening of the twelfth day of Christmas, and the Spirit of Christ has stayed with us. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{221}" paraid="2028852693" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We have both changed during the last fifty years, yet we have grown together and not apart because we have shared our love for God. That </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">doesn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> mean we agree on everything, but we support each other in everything. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{221}" paraid="2028852693" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">different styles</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of spirituality. I tend to be more academic, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contemplative</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and mystical. She is more prayerful, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">interpersonal</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and devotional. Yet both of us fill our days – especially our mornings – with spiritual activities. My wife is naturally more affectionate, but a bit of that has rubbed off on me over the decades. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{227}" paraid="1039620220" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Human love finds its Source in Divine Love. The apostle famously wrote, “God is love.” The rest of the verse says, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{227}" paraid="1039620220" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Love is the heart of the Christian gospel. Any </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">person o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r church that does not love all people, does not know God, regardless of how much they use the words Christian or Christ. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{237}" paraid="509211784" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Spiritual love is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">true</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> religion. Love for spouse, family and others flows from that love. That is what keeps us sane in a world and a society that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seems to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> erupting in hate. Lent is a time to remember this love. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{237}" paraid="509211784" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The ashes of Ash Wednesday remind us that love is stronger than death. We are mortal, but Love is immortal. We are dust and ashes, but love rises from the ashes. To lose ourselves in Divine Love is to gain eternal life. That </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> link between Love and Lent. (Happy Valentine’s Day, my love!)</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW89091333 BCX0" paraeid="{c45c3245-c71d-4365-9bff-6e84e395a5f0}{243}" paraid="131221702" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="TextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(Artwork depicts the coincidence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Feb,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW89091333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> 14, 2018, CNS illustration/Elizabeth Butterfield, Diocese of Erie)</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW89091333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-17741140901365512592024-02-05T10:18:00.000-05:002024-02-05T10:18:56.061-05:00 Gluten Free Worship <span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7C_IA-4_fAyiLFKRQwVcgqOQ4Q4FXywEAWxe530Jo3-20XWZ4z4hbJyubgs2FeZhgeBWMK-9Y1qH4maqEAN9Lavml8WZYsgfpGNi2AMmi9bLrhAu63SmArimXXNHYU4b1oDMApBF3IVUgQgV3QnFtRt5BrcOwp0yvLABTdT5x3GCejMJLx-PajOurMloO/s266/dribbble-gluten-free.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="266" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7C_IA-4_fAyiLFKRQwVcgqOQ4Q4FXywEAWxe530Jo3-20XWZ4z4hbJyubgs2FeZhgeBWMK-9Y1qH4maqEAN9Lavml8WZYsgfpGNi2AMmi9bLrhAu63SmArimXXNHYU4b1oDMApBF3IVUgQgV3QnFtRt5BrcOwp0yvLABTdT5x3GCejMJLx-PajOurMloO/w129-h116/dribbble-gluten-free.jpeg" width="129" /></a></div>Three weeks </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ago</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I started a gluten-free diet. I had been having digestive issues for six months and nothing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seemed to resolve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the problems. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I decided to try an alternative diet for a while and see if it helps. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So far so good. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I read that six weeks is a good trial period for this diet. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I am halfway there. Then I will decide whether to make it permanent. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW258329325 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{0acb47f9-ce75-468f-a67d-0d09144ab10f}{212}" paraid="1398134019" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yesterday was the first time I came to the Lord’s Table gluten free. Our church has had a gluten free </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">option</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for communion for a long time, including during the time I served as the pastor here years ago. But I had never partaken of the gluten free wafers. Last Sunday I did. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW258329325 BCX0" paraeid="{5d7554db-9a89-43a6-b230-295464877305}{201}" paraid="1533697872" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It made communion feel different. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">First of all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, I saw two different </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">type</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of “bread” on the plate. One was made of wheat and one of rice. It </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">immediately</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> said “duality” to me rather than unity. I had always approached communion as a symbolic meal proclaiming union with God. That is the literal meaning of the word communion – union with. That is the symbolism of the one cup and one loaf. How do two breads communicate oneness?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW258329325 BCX0" paraeid="{5d7554db-9a89-43a6-b230-295464877305}{222}" paraid="1724441855" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Then I thought again. The intent of offering the gluten free “bread” is inclusion. People who previously were unable to partake of both elements were now included in the symbolic meal. I was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">being included</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. The two breads </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">were communicating</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> openness and oneness. Two is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">one. Glut</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">en free communion is another form of “open communion.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW258329325 BCX0" paraeid="{5d7554db-9a89-43a6-b230-295464877305}{236}" paraid="476646489" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This message was reinforced by something that happened at the very beginning of the Lord’s Supper. The small children in the congregation were invited by the pastor to come forward and partake of the elements first. As the adults waited in the pews, five small children – all under the age of six - came forward to partake </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> communion. This was different for me, and it got me thinking.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW258329325 BCX0" paraeid="{5d7554db-9a89-43a6-b230-295464877305}{246}" paraid="1791003255" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I come from a tradition where communion is taken only by “believers.” And it happens only after </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">believers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> baptism, which occurs only after “the age of accountability,” which </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">considered to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the age when a person is mature enough to make a spiritual decision. Even then we Christians find all sorts of other reasons to prevent people from taking communion: theology, denominational affiliation, church membership, morality, sexuality, politics.... We are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ry good</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t finding ways to exclude people!</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW258329325 BCX0" paraeid="{05b0a830-9cc9-4d51-8049-3578718695b8}{13}" paraid="939656012" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yet God is always available to all. So why make our rituals more exclusive than God? When Jesus’ disciples prevented children from seeing him, Jesus insisted that they come to the front of the line. “Let the little children come to me and forbid them not, for of such are the Kingdom of God.” In worship last Sunday these little children </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">represented</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a more open attitude to the Lord’s Supper. As the prophet said, “And a little child shall lead them....” </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW258329325 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW258329325 BCX0" paraeid="{05b0a830-9cc9-4d51-8049-3578718695b8}{19}" paraid="368646196" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Jesus said that we must become like little children to enter the Kingdom of God. He said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us and all around us. Our religious rituals should reflect that reality rather than obfuscate it. So should our theology. This old preacher learned a couple of things about openness last Sunday. Old symbols yielded new meaning. Whenever that happens, I count it to be a good Sunday. </span><span class="EOP SCXW258329325 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-411178780749926582024-01-29T09:53:00.000-05:002024-01-29T09:53:11.263-05:00Why Conservative Churches are Declining <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLaoU4M_lqbQowU0j6i_JkbMik6nyxRMLWQfq30LX5tCEaDGYCbuDbQTGkxCcya44AQgBgqCQcDbp6QM6nAb7yDaST5JcrMoCTm8S1HDD-7ZNoeCHc8B6viMCtfnfhTaqOEXpzebURxliuaqPJ6QrE7RC3MLfgdGTRrr5xTH6mhD5drIUKi-NaJT6rS14t/s1800/Baptisms-e1706063095692.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="1800" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLaoU4M_lqbQowU0j6i_JkbMik6nyxRMLWQfq30LX5tCEaDGYCbuDbQTGkxCcya44AQgBgqCQcDbp6QM6nAb7yDaST5JcrMoCTm8S1HDD-7ZNoeCHc8B6viMCtfnfhTaqOEXpzebURxliuaqPJ6QrE7RC3MLfgdGTRrr5xTH6mhD5drIUKi-NaJT6rS14t/w173-h113/Baptisms-e1706063095692.jpg" width="173" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Two news stories came to my attention this past week. One is the precipitous decline of the largest Protestant denomination</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in the United States</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, the Southern Baptist Convention. As </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an alumnus</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the SBC’s flagship seminary, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I keep an eye on what is happening in this denomination.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div><p></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{92cb2180-8218-4ec4-8dfc-2cf172a884d6}{179}" paraid="2117454732" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Baptisms (which are Southern Baptists’ statistic of choice to assess how they are doing) are less than half what they were at the turn of the century. This happened during the same time that theological conservatives grew in power and influence in the SBC. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Likewise</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> membership has been decreasing. In the most recent statistical year (2022) the SBC had the largest numerical drop in membership in a century, with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nearly half</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a million members leaving. They have lost three million members since 2006. That is twice as many as the total membership in my denomination! </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{92cb2180-8218-4ec4-8dfc-2cf172a884d6}{201}" paraid="1296105699" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The second religion story in the news is that the so-called “nones” are now the largest "religious” group in the US. “Nones” are those who check “none” when asked their religion. They are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the religiously</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> unaffiliated, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">comprised</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of atheists, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">agnostics</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and those who say their religion is "nothing in particular." In 2007, nones made up 16% of Americans. Now they are 28%. In comparison, Catholics are 23% and evangelical Protestants 24% of the US population.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{92cb2180-8218-4ec4-8dfc-2cf172a884d6}{239}" paraid="1821120335" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The trend is obvious. Conservative Christians are decreasing rapidly, and nonreligious people are increasing. Conservative churches are heading in the same direction as mainline churches, which have been declining for far longer. Progressive Christian groups are still declining, but not in such </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">huge numbers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. For example, the American Baptist Churches, which is a moderate Baptist group, has been </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">pretty steady</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> over the decades, declining slightly. Other mainline Protestants are likewise declining – some more than others. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{13}" paraid="239566201" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yet the most liberal denomination, the Unitarian Universalist </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Association</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is bucking the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">trend somewhat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, being about the same as they were fifty years ago. I read a story in the local newspaper the other day about an American Baptist church in a nearby town that was growing. It is one of the most progressive churches in the area. It may be too much to say that liberal churches are growing, but </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">at the moment</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> they are not doing as badly as conservatives. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{31}" paraid="1154531396" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Back in 1972 there was a famous book entitled, “Why Conservative Churches are Growing: A Study in Sociology of Religion” by Dean M. Kelley. He made the case that people were looking for a clearly defined set of beliefs and values. Those churches that were </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">most</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> demanding of their members were growing. For years conservative churches sang that tune. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{37}" paraid="1177427011" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Now the hymn</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">al</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> page has turned, and they are singing a different tune. Now conservative churches are declining as rapidly or more than progressive churches. Conservatives used to look down their noses at liberal churches for their decline, laying the blame on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">their</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> theology and ethics. Now they are reluctant to apply the same standard to themselves. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{51}" paraid="1832384428" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The decline in the influence of Christians in American society is why – in part – evangelicals are crowding onto the Christian Nationalism bandwagon. They are hoping that political power can turn things around where their evangelistic efforts have not been able to do so. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Of course</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the politicizing of the gospel is having the opposite effect, alienating </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">more and more</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> people – especially the young. It does not look good for Christian religion in America – liberal or conservative.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{63}" paraid="1089696860" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yet as I look at the present situation, do not lament the trend. I see God at work in the hearts and minds of people who are leaving the church. People are looking more closely at what they believe ... and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> believe. They are deconstructing the faith they were raised in (if they were raised in a religious tradition). Upon careful examination, many </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are deciding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that their religious tradition is not true.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{75}" paraid="657400886" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> church decline has little to do with liberal or conservative. It has everything to do with people looking for meaning and purpose, beauty and truth, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">community</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and meaningful relationships in life. People are not finding those in churches, so they are looking elsewhere. They are looking to other religious traditions and humanistic philosophies. They are exploring other spiritual practices and beliefs. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{103}" paraid="1167183456" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">That is a good thing for the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">church in my opinion</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. The church is being purified. It is being winnowed of the chaff. John the Baptist proclaimed this message, and I see this divine action happening again today. The church is being forced to examine itself. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hopefully</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this will result in repentance. The Christian church has become so attached to its organizational identity, cultural institutions, religious tradition, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rituals</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and riches that it has lost the Pearl of Great Price. That is why people are leaving the church. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW197818567 BCX0" paraeid="{eaf29544-06e6-4c5e-9200-ab5582a99159}{142}" paraid="949312440" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Will the church survive? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Almost certainly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. God is not finished with it. Yet I foresee the church surviving in a form that we would not recognize today. It will be transformed in ways that we cannot imagine. If it is to survive,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it will repent of its theological narrow-mindedness and realize what it has a lot in common with adherents of other religions. It will downplay dogma and recover the spiritual </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reality at </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW197818567 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the heart of all spiritual traditions. Some call this the perennial wisdom. If the church has a future, this is it. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW197818567 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-71408678398875171582024-01-23T10:47:00.002-05:002024-01-23T10:59:05.942-05:00 Voting Lightly<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdvplmxsBFpUHSo7RE1zL7keld4R6OdTq7BzN8Xxz0ZUa7FsXHxLC8YZHUQ6lHQT0DvGcKJfyAhc-dp0V1n1q80w3fw0IM6fhYFZZ-TNSbNbBwWlPst8k7QDjtMRJOLmfXqYOyeqIJkvYx-Givmu8MVDc0vMh4F2WQQoVHiWGwAd9y_1I3ew8io8ix5l8I/s691/lightprism2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="691" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdvplmxsBFpUHSo7RE1zL7keld4R6OdTq7BzN8Xxz0ZUa7FsXHxLC8YZHUQ6lHQT0DvGcKJfyAhc-dp0V1n1q80w3fw0IM6fhYFZZ-TNSbNbBwWlPst8k7QDjtMRJOLmfXqYOyeqIJkvYx-Givmu8MVDc0vMh4F2WQQoVHiWGwAd9y_1I3ew8io8ix5l8I/w175-h153/lightprism2.jpg" width="175" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Today I voted in the New Hampshire presidential primary. I was not looking forward to it. Every other year in my life I have been excited to vote for president. This is especially true of the years I have lived in New Hampshire. Here I get to talk to candidates one-on-one and shake their hands. This time there was no one who inspired me enough for me to travel twenty or thirty minutes to meet them in person. </span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div><p></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{73d359fb-b4e7-4fec-af2b-e134cdeea432}{175}" paraid="1726323401" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I finally settled on a person I could vote for without holding my nose. Now I am waiting to hear the results of the New Hampshire primary, although I suspect I already know the answer to that question. I also suspect I know how the general election will turn out. But I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">c</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">be sure. A lot can happen in the next ten months. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{73d359fb-b4e7-4fec-af2b-e134cdeea432}{189}" paraid="173637287" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I am not excited about the choice I will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">likely face</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in November. I have no </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">good choice</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, unless I vote for a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">third party</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> candidate. I have done that in the past</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fact</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I have been a member of two different “third parties” in the last twenty-five years. That is how uncomfortable I am with our two major parties. But that choice comes with its own moral problems. Am I enabling the worst candidate to win? </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{73d359fb-b4e7-4fec-af2b-e134cdeea432}{215}" paraid="1530219564" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The problem with politics is the same problem with all dualistic activities, only made worse by the extremely partisan rhetoric that has become the norm in recent years. Too many people view the world in terms of black and white, red versus blue, us </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">against</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> them. A few politicians see things in shades of grey, but such statesmen and stateswomen are a dying breed. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{73d359fb-b4e7-4fec-af2b-e134cdeea432}{225}" paraid="786885399" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I come at it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a different way</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I see politics from the perspective of spirituality. Not a religious partisanship that equates one’s religion with a particular party or ideological position, i.e., the progressive Christian votes Democrat and conservative Christian votes Republican. I see God transcending this duality. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{73d359fb-b4e7-4fec-af2b-e134cdeea432}{235}" paraid="1195707598" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I do not see the world in black and white</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Neither do I see it in shades of grey. Certainly not blue versus red! I see this world in shades of light. That light refracts into a marvelous spectrum of color, including both blue and red</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">! </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Light of God is overwhelmingly present in all that is. In speaking of the omnipresence of God, the psalmist says:</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{73d359fb-b4e7-4fec-af2b-e134cdeea432}{245}" paraid="496136449" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Where shall I go from your Spirit?</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Or where shall I flee from your presence?</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">If I ascend to heaven, you are there!</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> If I make my bed in hell, you are there!</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">If I take the wings of the morning</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">even there your hand shall lead me,</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and your right hand shall hold me.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">even the darkness is not dark to you;</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> the night is bright as the day,</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div></span><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> for darkness is as light with you.</span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></div></span></span><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{8929dd93-0441-44d6-ac7b-d98c0ea701a8}{20}" paraid="443663099" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Light of God is present in the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">whole process</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Many religious and political people see everything in apocalyptic terms of good and evil, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">right</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and wrong, battling it out in the heavens and on earth. I see God working all things together for Good. If that is true, then we can relax into this overarching reality and vote in faith. The concluding words of Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata” come to mind:</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{8929dd93-0441-44d6-ac7b-d98c0ea701a8}{34}" paraid="379520236" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="TextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">whether or not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Therefore</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">[sic]</span><span class="TextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sham</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">drudgery</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW126136557 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW126136557 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text;"> </span> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW226931977 BCX0" paraeid="{8929dd93-0441-44d6-ac7b-d98c0ea701a8}{44}" paraid="1919781279" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I vote </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226931977 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> peace ... for peace ... to make this a more peaceful and beautiful world.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW226931977 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-31416784065712810542024-01-18T10:59:00.000-05:002024-01-18T10:59:41.438-05:00 Looking For Jesus <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVXnApJQJme-CJpbgcfHPtoA6vvDhLY_Sw_ab3KTZxKbdXEAYhKNfHNyS8D6Ce3yubUiD7dcH_XzfyusR5IQunPa8L14-swJ48Kv6XH8ZuJkf9oE9Uiwcd6rfHEvNJpd1tqFmTCfqh4oxgswLoUBjVCHrd19OGJF1sN6kBC1rHJWxLImDVyQaiEWer-oM/s800/Jesus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVXnApJQJme-CJpbgcfHPtoA6vvDhLY_Sw_ab3KTZxKbdXEAYhKNfHNyS8D6Ce3yubUiD7dcH_XzfyusR5IQunPa8L14-swJ48Kv6XH8ZuJkf9oE9Uiwcd6rfHEvNJpd1tqFmTCfqh4oxgswLoUBjVCHrd19OGJF1sN6kBC1rHJWxLImDVyQaiEWer-oM/w200-h200/Jesus.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is not easy to find Jesus of Nazareth in the Bible. There are so many of them! Which one is the real one? Or is he a compilation of all of them? There are the four <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">canonical</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gospels</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, each with their distinctive interpretation of Jesus. Matthew portrays Jesus as the New Moses, the rightful heir of the great Hebrew lawgiver. Mark depicts him as Jesus the Demon-Slayer. Luke pictures him as the Great Physician. John describes him as the Eternal Word made flesh. That is just the four gospels! Then there is Paul’s Jesus and the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Jesus</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the other epistles</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to mention</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the gospels that never made it into the Bible.</span><span class="EOP SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span><p></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW99622752 BCX0" paraeid="{9ce89077-4fba-416c-b449-d17459b1803c}{191}" paraid="1619105818" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I am </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reading through</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the four New Testament gospels for the umpteenth time this year, this time reading only the words spoken by Jesus, the so-called “red letters.” In his words I see many other Jesuses. The one I am most attracted to is Jesus as Wisdom Teacher. Jesus as Spiritual Teacher echoes many of the themes of the Wisdom literature in the Hebrew scriptures. Jesus was a mystic who proclaimed that the Kingdom of God is within you. It is here now all around us, if only people open their eyes and see. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW99622752 BCX0" paraeid="{9ce89077-4fba-416c-b449-d17459b1803c}{201}" paraid="840423187" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then there is Jesus as the Social Prophet. He is an ethical teacher that is not so much concerned with individual moral behavior (which he downplays) as he is society’s treatment of the poor, the sick, the outsider, the prisoners, and the immigrants. He echoes themes of the Hebrew prophets Amos, Micah, Hosea, and Isaiah. He lambasts the self-righteous religionists of his day and embraces people excluded by the synagogue and temple. </span><span class="EOP SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW99622752 BCX0" paraeid="{9ce89077-4fba-416c-b449-d17459b1803c}{207}" paraid="271068200" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Another is Jesus the Apocalyptic Preacher, proclaiming the immanent appearance of the Kingdom of God on earth. A lot of his preaching has to do with the end of the age and the breaking in of a new world order. He spoke about an apocalyptic figure known as the Son of Man (traditionally identified with Jesus himself), who would come to dramatically usher in a Reign of Peace on earth. Jesus connects this to the destruction of the temple and signs in heaven and earth. </span><span class="EOP SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW99622752 BCX0" paraeid="{9ce89077-4fba-416c-b449-d17459b1803c}{213}" paraid="1423916596" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then there are all the modern Jesuses. Jesus the evangelical preacher, saving souls from hell. Jesus the Christian nationalist waving an American flag and wearing a MAGA cap. Jesus the champion of the second amendment, brandishing a semi-automatic weapon. Jesus the progressive Democrat advocating for protecting the environment, democracy, and human rights. There is the Zionist Jesus defending the modern state of Israel. There is the New Age Jesus sitting in the lotus position and meditating. </span><span class="EOP SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW99622752 BCX0" paraeid="{9ce89077-4fba-416c-b449-d17459b1803c}{219}" paraid="1217869199" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So many Jesuses! Which one – or which combination of these many Jesuses - is the real Jesus? And how do we sift through all our personal biases, theological </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">agendas</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and political biases, to find the authentic Jesus? Biblical scholarship has been trying to do this for centuries and is no closer to a definitive portrait of the historical Jesus. Even the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">canonical</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gospels admit that the original disciples did not recognize the risen Christ. How will we recognize him two thousand years later? </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW99622752 BCX0" paraeid="{9ce89077-4fba-416c-b449-d17459b1803c}{225}" paraid="671907355" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the end it is not so much about finding the historical Jesus as it is discovering the eternal Christ here now</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is not about definitively defining Jesus with a list of characteristics and qualities. It is about deconstructing our personal images of Jesus and unknowing what we think we know about him. Only then is Christ freed from the prison of our expectations to be the one that defies all characterizations. In unknowing the historical </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Jesus</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we know the risen Christ in our midst</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW99622752 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW99622752 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-32376199884623678162024-01-11T09:32:00.000-05:002024-01-11T09:32:11.951-05:00Footprints (Yankee Version) <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">One night I dreamed I was walking in the snow with the Lord.</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{181}" paraid="540046153" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In each scene I noticed footprints in the snow.</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{193}" paraid="623553023" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Sometimes there were two sets of footprints;</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{199}" paraid="1723656802" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">other</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> times there was one set of footprints.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{205}" paraid="2076315268" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{211}" paraid="599950600" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">This bothered me because I noticed</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{217}" paraid="1760042012" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">that during the low periods of my life,</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{223}" paraid="455509259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">when I was suffering from</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{229}" paraid="724548799" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">anguish, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sorrow</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> or defeat,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{235}" paraid="1470137072" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I could see only one set of footprints.</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{241}" paraid="37712089" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{247}" paraid="865145382" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I said to the Lord,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{1a129cbe-4db3-4f3d-aab1-78671268c43b}{253}" paraid="1235196388" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"You promised me Lord,</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{4}" paraid="1020347254" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">that if I followed you,</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{10}" paraid="345124389" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">you</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> would walk with me always.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{16}" paraid="1934321382" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">But I have noticed that during</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{22}" paraid="184281215" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">the most trying periods of my life</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{28}" paraid="1976153748" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">there has only been one</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{34}" paraid="1094378838" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">set of footprints in the snow.</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{40}" paraid="1531313182" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Why, when I needed you most,</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{cfe75e7c-2c2c-4cda-ba2c-6033b31d0690}{101}" paraid="175792710" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">have you not been there for me?"</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{52}" paraid="1767535439" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{58}" paraid="1588411062" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Lord replied,</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{64}" paraid="796633804" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"The times when you have</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{70}" paraid="849940426" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{82}" paraid="1602952344" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Why didn’t you stop with me?</span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{88}" paraid="1336575249" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.33333px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">if you stopped </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to play</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">with me </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">once in a while."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":20,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW21083941 BCX0" paraeid="{85134ee0-5ce8-49e4-a906-4d70020e5ff3}{104}" paraid="37290179" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(Apologies to Mary Stevenson, the author of “Footprints in the Sand</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> There have been subsequent variations of this popular poem, which are often read at funerals. The original, written in 1936, can be found at this </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW21083941 BCX0" href="https://footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?page=Poem/Poem.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0563c1; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">link</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW21083941 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In 2023</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Mattel released an updated version of its Fisher-Price </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Little People Nativity Set</span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. In the past the set had a white Holy Family and a blonde baby Jesus. Because of feedback from people</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of color</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and a campaign by the progressive Christian group </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Faithful America</span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, Jesus is now pictured </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">more like a first-century Sephardic Jew. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">That victory for historicity got me thinking about all the other false depictions of Jesus. As an overweight person, I notice that Jesus </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">doesn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> look like me. (Note my tongue in my cheek) The adult Jesus is always pictured as trim and handsome. The popular television series </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Chosen </span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">is the most recent perpetuation of this myth. Where does the Bible ever say that Jesus was thin and good-looking? </span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{c86a9c04-c5b7-4530-bf2f-b325a947123b}{212}" paraid="2056468718" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The “suffering servant,” passage in Isaiah, which is thought by Christians to be a messianic prophecy, says the opposite. In the context of him growing up, it reads: </span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” </span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{bc8c269d-86e7-4252-9de9-d6d5d989edfa}{203}" paraid="549270489" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If this is a prediction of how Jesus looked all his life and not </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">just on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the cross, this means that Jesus was not attractive. Yet he is never pictured this way. Why? Because no one wants an ugly Jesus. If Jesus were portrayed in films as unsightly, no one would watch them. In </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fact</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I am sure there would be outrage from the Christian community.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{c86a9c04-c5b7-4530-bf2f-b325a947123b}{238}" paraid="965496737" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The same would be true if Jesus were depicted as overweight. I have never seen Jesus portrayed as heavy in any film, picture, or painting, until I did an internet search before </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">writing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this article. Then I discovered the Columbian </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">artist</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Fernando Botero. His work is refreshingly original and challenges our stereotypes. I include his “Head of Christ” with this article.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{c86a9c04-c5b7-4530-bf2f-b325a947123b}{252}" paraid="1844619828" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Why is Jesus never portrayed as obese? Would he not still be the Son of God if he carried a few extra pounds? It is because obesity is considered unattractive in our weight-conscious culture. We prefer Jesus to conform to our cultural ideals. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we sing: “Beautiful, beautiful. Jesus is beautiful. And Jesus makes beautiful things of my life.” No one wants a portrait of a fat Jesus hanging in their church.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{3}" paraid="1594211091" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yet in the gospels Jesus’ opponents described him as “a glutton and winebibber.” They were accusing him of overeating! Many of the parables of Jesus are about parties and banquets. His first miracle was turning water </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> wine at a wedding feast. In another famous miracle he fed 5000 people and had food left over. He liked that miracle so much he did it again with a group of 4000! The most important ritual of the church involves eating. Jesus loved to eat and drink! It is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">not unreasonable</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that his love of food showed in his body shape. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{17}" paraid="1233915696" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Also</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Jesus is often pictured groomed and washed – all ready to attend church. He looks more like a model for a hair shampoo commercial than a homeless itinerant preacher. Yet Jesus said that he “had no place to lay his head.” In other </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">words</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> he lived rough. That means it was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">pro</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">bably a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ch</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">allenge to keep clean and well-groomed. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{33}" paraid="1385073581" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">As far as his physique is concerned, Jesus is never pictured as muscular. Stallone and Schwarzenegger were never offered the role of Jesus in a film. I just finished watching the television series “Reacher.” The star of the show, Alan Ritchson, has the physique of a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">body-builder</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. I am </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">pretty certain</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that he is not going to be cast as Jesus anytime soon.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{50}" paraid="1439040436" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But the gospels say Jesus was a “builder.” This is usually translated as a carpenter, but he was more likely a stonemason. There are very few trees in the Holy Land, but there are lots of rocks. Builders in that time and place worked more with stone than wood</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{58}" paraid="904649979" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Jesus was a stonemason when there was no heavy machinery to help move the stones. All the work was done with human labor. Jesus was a laborer in an occupation that demanded great physical strength. He was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">almost certainly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a large muscular fellow. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{72}" paraid="1289801525" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Jesus</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> fat? Probably not. He burned too many calories. He worked too hard during this career as a builder and walked too much during this career as a wandering preacher. But I imagine him as a big guy. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{78}" paraid="1089974645" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In short Jesus did not look like a light-skinned, light-haired, blue eyed, trim, handsome, well-dressed megachurch pastor. Jesus looked like a large, muscular construction worker, with dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. He was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">probably unattractive</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to look at. He would not be chosen for </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Bachelor</span><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> reality show. </span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{92}" paraid="2076722355" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But you will not see Jesus depicted in this way in Christian art or film. That would not sell the product that the modern church is selling. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the church ignores all historical evidence about Jesus and crafts an alternate image of Christ to conform to our cultural stereotypes </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in order to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> compete in the religious marketplace</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">After all, you’ve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> got to fill the pews and the offering plates!</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{113}" paraid="1078522010" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I prefer the historical Jesus. It does not matter to me what he looked like. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I think he</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is beautiful, even though he may </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">have not</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> been attractive by worldly standards. In </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fact</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> think the ordinariness of the historical Jesus is an advantage. It forces us to look beneath the surface of every person we meet. If Jesus was ordinary, then we are more apt to love ordinary neighbors – and strangers - with the same love that we love Jesus. For as we treat the least of our human brothers and sisters, so we treat Christ.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW233492465 BCX0" paraeid="{84a437f0-be2d-4a79-8eae-d1a60f91d9dd}{135}" paraid="1216170244" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW233492465 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW233492465 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-62950780458476992352024-01-01T09:53:00.000-05:002024-01-01T09:53:35.869-05:00 A Red Letter Resolution<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW244361407 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> usually make New Year’s r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">esolutions. After </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seventy three</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> years of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">failing to keep</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> these </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">promises </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to myself, I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> trust myself any longer. I have come to realize that I have no real control over whether the resolutions will continue beyond the early weeks of the year. The ego makes the resolution, but it has no power to fulfill the resolution. Jesus put it this way</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: “</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The spirit is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">willing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> but the flesh is week.” </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{9bd5829d-f554-4e3f-92f9-b92428ecbc6a}{185}" paraid="121531884" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But this year I am making a New Year resolution that I am </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">pretty certain</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I can keep (I think). I have decided to make a change to my daily devotions. I am going to go through the New Testament reading only the words of Jesus. My preferred </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">leather-bound </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">copy of the Bible happens to be a “red letter” edition, which has the words of Jesus printed in red, so that makes it easy. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{9bd5829d-f554-4e3f-92f9-b92428ecbc6a}{202}" paraid="290273708" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Let me explain my reasoning for this pledge. As time goes </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I have come to realize just how far the Christian church has strayed from the teachings of Christ. Back when I was an </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">evangelical</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I used to think this was the fault of church tradition, which caused churches to stray from the teaching of scripture. Now I see that scripture </span></span><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">IS </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">tradition. Who wrote the New Testament, edited it, chose which books would go into it, and canonized it? The Church! The problem is still church tradition, and scripture is church tradition. </span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{9bd5829d-f554-4e3f-92f9-b92428ecbc6a}{228}" paraid="2137529257" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The more I study the Bible the more I see how different the teachings of Jesus are from the rest of the New Testament. That which Paul, James, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Peter</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and the rest of the apostolic gang taught is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very different</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from what Jesus taught. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{9bd5829d-f554-4e3f-92f9-b92428ecbc6a}{248}" paraid="2018327140" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">More books of the New Testament were written by the apostle Paul than anyone else. He had an </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">over-sized</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> influence on the early Church. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Consequently</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> most of Christian theology is based on the writings of Paul filtered through Church councils and creeds. Paul was an important thinker in early Christianity, but he was no Jesus. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{4cb5f88a-e167-4871-af35-dd9a0d86271a}{29}" paraid="89772722" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fact</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Paul </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seems to know</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> little about Jesus. He never personally met Jesus or heard him teach. Paul admits that he never even heard the teachings of Jesus from any of the original apostles. He boasts that he received his gospel directly from God and not through the apostles. His writings confirm it. Paul never quotes Jesus in his epistles except for his words at the Last Supper.</span></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{4cb5f88a-e167-4871-af35-dd9a0d86271a}{51}" paraid="440138681" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Paul is completely unfamiliar with the teachings of Jesus. Yet the Church has made Paul’s interpretation of Christ authoritative. Christianity proclaims the gospel of Paul rather than the gospel of Jesus. I prefer Jesus. I am a follower of Jesus, not Paul. I choose Jesus’ words over this self-appointed apostle. That is why in the coming year I am going to read the words of Jesus without interpreting them through the thinking of Paul or the tradition of the Church. </span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{4cb5f88a-e167-4871-af35-dd9a0d86271a}{89}" paraid="674156568" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Now I just have to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> find the words of Jesus! The place to start is the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">canonical</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gospels. Although there are many words attributed to Jesus in the gospels, biblical scholars are not sure which ones were actually spoken</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by Jesus and which were inserted into his mouth by the church. To discern the difference is as much an art as it is a science. Because Biblical scholars do not agree which sayings are authentic, I will assume that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nearly all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of the words attributed to Jesus were spoken by him. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{4cb5f88a-e167-4871-af35-dd9a0d86271a}{107}" paraid="819387889" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Also</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> we cannot be sure of the context in which Jesus’ words were originally spoken. Most scholars believe that the gospel writers used (now lost) written and oral sources for Jesus’ teaching. These </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contained</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> only the sayings of Jesus. Decades after Jesus’ lifetime these sayings were put into a narrative framework by the gospel writers. As I meditate upon the red letters spoken by Jesus in 2024, I will not assume I know where and when these words were originally spoken. I will let Jesus’ words speak for themselves.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW52521333 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW52521333 BCX0" paraeid="{4cb5f88a-e167-4871-af35-dd9a0d86271a}{145}" paraid="81769151" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I will not assume I already know what they mean. I will not assume that Christians know what they mean. I will read them (as much as possible) without the filter of later Church tradition or Christian theology. I will take the words of Jesus at face value, listening to Christ and Christ alone and see where he takes me. I suspect this approach will open new possibilities for understanding the heart and mind of Jesus. In any case it will make for an interesting scripture study in 2024. </span><span class="EOP SCXW52521333 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-21188492235590766142023-12-23T12:57:00.000-05:002023-12-23T12:57:25.418-05:00Namaste, Emmanuel<p><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aumFguXwbtBcr12p0-ThFV1x7XPmJH48vhrB-Embc2Df59oReYtiQhcz4N57opH2kw4rVU4hRkPDV4oPH_EqlrqIJ_8F6Qc1Xsd9Od1DWd2-3gJGix3ji0TSDUZCZRTBNo-kAePbdKqI9cG3_TQvC_t76GURFShwqxuyfuUHLRYls7Gfb94NJzXTEaT0/s470/namaste-hand-drawn-vector-20399758.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="401" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aumFguXwbtBcr12p0-ThFV1x7XPmJH48vhrB-Embc2Df59oReYtiQhcz4N57opH2kw4rVU4hRkPDV4oPH_EqlrqIJ_8F6Qc1Xsd9Od1DWd2-3gJGix3ji0TSDUZCZRTBNo-kAePbdKqI9cG3_TQvC_t76GURFShwqxuyfuUHLRYls7Gfb94NJzXTEaT0/w171-h200/namaste-hand-drawn-vector-20399758.jpg" width="171" /></a></i></div><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Emmanuel,
Emmanuel,<br />
His name is called Emmanuel.<br />
God with us, revealed in us,<br />
His name is called Emmanuel</span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have sung this simple song in church countless times since
it came out in 1976. It was written that year by Robert McGee, who at the time
was an associate pastor at The King's Temple Church in Seattle, Washington. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is used in churches of various theological persuasions, but
I wonder if people pause to consider the theological message of the words. The
author is clearly referring to the prophecy mentioned in Christmas story of the
Gospel of Matthew. What is unique about this song is the author’s
interpretation of the name Emmanuel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Everyone agrees that it means “God with us,” but McGee takes
it a step further. He says that it also means “God revealed in us.” It is one
thing to say that God is revealed in Jesus Christ. It is another to say that
God is revealed in you and me. This revolutionary part of the song often goes
unnoticed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Emmanuel is more than a prophecy fulfilled in Jesus or a theological
statement about Jesus. It is saying that the God who was in Jesus is also
revealed in people singing about Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God is revealed in us. Think about that for a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">How is God revealed in us? No qualifications are mentioned
in the song. It does not say that God is only revealed in Christians who
believe a certain set of doctrines or attend a certain type of church. It does
not say that God is revealed in certain rituals, words or actions. It simply
says that God is “revealed in us.” Unconditionally, it would seem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is another way of expressing the idea of Imago Dei -
that all people are made in the image of God. When we see a human, we are
seeing the face of God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is another song often sung this time of year entitled
“Mary, Did You Know?” The lyrics were written by Mark Lowry in 1984 and set to
music by Buddy Greene in 1991. The song wonders what was in the heart and mind
of Mary on the day Jesus was born. One of the stanzas says: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mary, did you know<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That … when you kiss your little baby</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You kissed the face of God?”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p>The final
stanza says:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">“Did you know</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That … this sleeping child you're holding</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is the Great I Am?</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p>When we
ponder the Christ child in the light of Emmanuel, we realize that when we kiss
any baby’s face, we kiss the face of God. Every child – and adult – is the “Great
I Am” revealed in human flesh. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In India
people greet each other by folding their hands as if in prayer and bowing to
each other. It is usually accompanied with the word “Namaste,” which (according
to the Hindu American Foundation) literally means, “The Divine within me bows
to the same Divine within you.” It is a way of acknowledging the presence of
God in the other person. That is Emmanuel. God with us, revealed in us. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I do not
know what was in the mind or heart of Robert McGee when he was inspired to
write the lyrics to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Emmanuel</i>. But
like all poetry the meaning of verse is more than the intent of the author. It
is equally in the heart of the hearer. To this hearer Emmanuel is an invitation
to see God in the other and in the depths of our own hearts. As the beautiful
Christmas carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” puts it:</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">O holy Child of Bethlehem,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">descend to us, we pray;</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">cast out our sin and enter in;</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">be born in us today.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We hear the Christmas angels,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the great glad tidings tell;</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">O come to us, abide with us,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">our Lord Emmanuel!</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-13173095433911417482023-12-18T10:32:00.000-05:002023-12-18T10:32:08.283-05:00The Immortal and Nameless Centre<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbERK839Fzj8Gw2j7YIT3Qn-Lfzxr61ypDXb2-BJ1Gt5riZX44gCYhr-q1LCpjHDBjolC018zVhtAlNEycnmM1ZwlufBtQj0lfU-S64tdovWk2511YpuCOYuLVviYA5qt-hKniAue5Pg7VG0hWc3_d39poZxgTKG5oykSx4XTH_X0smM7D7ns2qRx2Xf2N/s396/bulb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="317" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbERK839Fzj8Gw2j7YIT3Qn-Lfzxr61ypDXb2-BJ1Gt5riZX44gCYhr-q1LCpjHDBjolC018zVhtAlNEycnmM1ZwlufBtQj0lfU-S64tdovWk2511YpuCOYuLVviYA5qt-hKniAue5Pg7VG0hWc3_d39poZxgTKG5oykSx4XTH_X0smM7D7ns2qRx2Xf2N/w160-h200/bulb.jpg" width="160" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Every Advent I read W. H. Auden’s poem “For the Time Being:
A Christmas Oratorio.” My practice of
reading this work at Christmastime began about forty years ago when a friend
lent me her old hardback copy. That first year I found the poem difficult to
understand, but in time I grew to love it. Now Christmas would not be the same
without it. Some people watch <i>It’s a
Wonderful Life, The Sound of Music</i> or <i>Elf
</i>every Christmas. I read <i>For the Time
Being.</i></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The poem was written during the Second World War and is
long: 1,500 lines and over 50 pages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was designed to be set to music, but as far as I know the music was never
completed. The poem consists of a series of monologues that are spoken by
characters, choruses, and a narrator. Each year a different part of the poem
catches my attention. This year it was Part V in the section entitled “Advent.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O where is that immortal and nameless Centre
from which our points of <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Definition and death are all equi-distant?
Where <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The well of our wish to wander, the
everlasting fountain <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Of the waters of joy that our sorrow uses
for tears? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">O where is the garden of Being that is only
known in Existence <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As the command to be never there, the
sentence by which <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Alephs of throbbing fact have been banished
into position, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The clock that dismisses the moment into the
turbine of time?</span></i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The first line hooked me: “O where is that immortal and
nameless Centre from which our points of definition and death are all equidistant?”
That is exactly how I experience God. God is the Center of existence. Christmas
may be the time for most Christians to swoon over the divine Baby in a manger,
but I contemplate the immortal and nameless Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This Center is nameless because the true God cannot be
named. That is the testimony of scripture. When Moses asked God’s name at the
Burning Bush, God evaded the question. When pressed, God simply responded, “I
am that I am.” A decade ago I translated the opening lines of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tao Te Ching</i> into Christian language for
my book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Tao of Christ</i>, and I put
it this way:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The God who can be described<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is not the true God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Name that can be spoken<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is not the Name of God.</span></i><i><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">God is unnamable.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Naming God is the
beginning of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Let go, and you find God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hold on, and you get
theology.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">God is the immortal and unnamable Center “from which our
points of definition and death are all equidistant.”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>I hear Auden saying that we spend most of our lives on the circumference
of life, tinkering with the details. Everything that distinguishes us from everyone and everything else
is on the edge of existence. True Life is at the Center, in “the Garden of
Being” where all comes together in One. If you want to know God, look in the
Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In traditional Nativity scenes, the Christ Child is the
center of attention. All eyes are directed toward the manger. The other
characters in the Christmas story – parents, animals, shepherds, magi and
angels - occupy ever-widening circles around this Child, like the nine spheres
of heaven in Dante’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paradiso</i>. To
locate Christ, you look to the center. To find God in our lives, we look to the
Center, the Home of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Where is that immortal and nameless Centre?” Auden asks.
Jesus answered that question. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.” That is
where we find Christ during this Christmas season. The apostle John’s Christmas
poem (the prologue of his gospel) says, “The Word (the Eternal Christ) became
flesh and dwelt among us.” Literally the Greek text says that the Word dwells
IN us. Christ is the Center. Take time this Christmas to get off the periphery of life and see for yourself.</span></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-89641194896066913982023-12-12T09:42:00.000-05:002023-12-12T09:42:08.327-05:00The Real Emmanuel<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDdpblxIfvbCW5LhpUts1JE109Tq-pL55UwBDIPwDI9nOvUmQxNLK8iicdJhFidhLYHVqwtU6sf6P_sBwJuxOlCDAG_lIzptvAYOZHOnsRFHA9QfLLgACWEhC5A1yGq_3nonEWZi6HH1qPH5OXjOfWz59ouzjyRzCCfuA9Nw__EB9HH4FIprf71PzC7Fst/s225/emmanuel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDdpblxIfvbCW5LhpUts1JE109Tq-pL55UwBDIPwDI9nOvUmQxNLK8iicdJhFidhLYHVqwtU6sf6P_sBwJuxOlCDAG_lIzptvAYOZHOnsRFHA9QfLLgACWEhC5A1yGq_3nonEWZi6HH1qPH5OXjOfWz59ouzjyRzCCfuA9Nw__EB9HH4FIprf71PzC7Fst/w200-h200/emmanuel.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Emmanuel, Emmanuel. His name is called Emmanuel.” That
popular chorus is heard in many churches this time of year. My favorite Advent
hymn is “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” The Advent season doesn’t really begin for
me until I sing it in worship. There is something about the minor key and the
tempo that opens my heart to God. </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The idea that Jesus was Emmanuel (alternately spelled
Immanuel) comes from the Gospel of Matthew where the gospel writer sees the
birth of Jesus as fulfilling a prophecy spoken by the prophet Isaiah. After
recounting the virgin birth, the Gospel writer says, “All this took place to
fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will conceive
and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ (which means ‘God
with us’).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is as far as most Christians get. They never pause to reflect
on the fact that Christ was named Jesus, not Emmanuel. They never look up the
reference in the Book of Isaiah. They do not realize how controversial this
scripture verse is. I first learned about the controversy surrounding this text
in seminary. The problem began with the Revised Standard Version of the Bible,
which translated the Hebrew word “almah” in Isaiah 7:14 as “a young woman”
rather than “virgin.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All hell broke loose. Translators were accused of heresy. Fundamentalists
burned the RSV. The truth is the translators were rendering the Hebrew word
faithfully. The Hebrew word does not mean virgin. That interpretation began
when the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) translated it using
the word “parthenos,” which means virgin. That is where the author of the
Gospel of Matthew got it. He thought it fit in well with the story of a virgin
birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When we look at the original prophecy of Isaiah, we see it
has nothing to do with a supernatural birth or the Messiah. The prophet was
addressing a political situation in his day. Syria had entered into an alliance
with the northern kingdom of Israel against Judah. Isaiah prophesied that soon
a child would be born and be given the symbolic name Emmanuel. He writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Therefore the Lord
himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a
son, and shall call his name Immanuel. He shall eat curds and honey when he
knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. For before the child knows
how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you
are in dread will be deserted.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The prophet was predicting an end to the military threat against
Jerusalem, which would happen before this child <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.”</i> Most would say
this happens around age twelve, using Jesus’ visit to the temple at that age as
a guideline. Others use the Jewish bar mitzva as the standard, saying it is age
13. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In either case, events unfolded in the eighth century BC just as the
prophet predicted. The nations of Israel and Syria were destroyed by the
invading Assyrian army, saving Jerusalem and Judah. The ten northern tribes of
Israel were lost to history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So the original meaning of the name Emmanuel had to do with
war in the Holy Land. Emmanuel was a sign of Divine judgment on Israel and a
promise of salvation for Judah. It was a warning to trust in God rather than political
alliances. Inspired by the same Spirit Jesus, the new Emmanuel, predicted God’s
judgment upon Jerusalem in his Olivet Discourse, saying, “Would that you, even
you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are
hidden from your eyes.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It seems like these things are still hidden. This Christmas we
are seeing war in the Holy Land. This year we have seen a horrendous attack
upon Israeli civilians by Hamas. We have also seen devastating retaliation by
Israel against Gaza. This conflict has spurred both anti-Semitic and anti-Palestinian
attacks in our country. There is no lasting peace in sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Where is God in all this?” The sign
of Emmanuel is relevant during this Advent season. “God is with us” in times like these – both
in judgment and salvation. God is still present in the Holy Land. Seeing
exactly how God’s judgment and salvation is present in this war is a matter of spiritual
discernment. I suspect that time will tell. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In any case it is important to remember that originally the
sign of Emmanuel had nothing to do with the Messiah. Nevertheless the Gospel
writer used this prophecy in his story of the birth of the Prince of Peace. That
is significant. The peace of God is with us in Jesus. Jesus himself said, “I
will be with you always, even unto the end of the age.” God is with us. It is
simply a matter of opening ourselves to the ever-present Emmanuel.</span></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-58813230841259982542023-12-07T10:33:00.001-05:002023-12-07T10:33:49.273-05:00Not To Oppose Evil Is Itself Evil<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJUQEd1qALPNnB_8Zku1O_v-_4oZVXUXIdQHgwiGMwovmlegHu-f4UYQ8bH4CbBLfNkvSphzyvuUUy5jQnu1-toc-y3mPjzqqEcq63a0q_fUOvnVcC0IzN7Tz4scP-QQ4AZ7DCN143nFhbEEQl4SkNk56-xnGK295JG3l7Crx2pNGZxgligTvHQmVCmeL/s457/good%20and%20evil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="318" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJUQEd1qALPNnB_8Zku1O_v-_4oZVXUXIdQHgwiGMwovmlegHu-f4UYQ8bH4CbBLfNkvSphzyvuUUy5jQnu1-toc-y3mPjzqqEcq63a0q_fUOvnVcC0IzN7Tz4scP-QQ4AZ7DCN143nFhbEEQl4SkNk56-xnGK295JG3l7Crx2pNGZxgligTvHQmVCmeL/w139-h200/good%20and%20evil.jpg" width="139" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">American Baptist minister Nathaniel Manderson (whose <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://thebeachedwhitemale.com/nate-manderson/">podcast</a></span>
is humorously entitled “The Beached White Male”) recently wrote an <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/12/03/mike-johnson-claims-to-hate-the-devil--maybe-he-should-look-in-the-mirror/">opinion
piece</a></span> for <i>Salon</i> in which
he confesses to believing in a literal devil. He says, “Now, to be clear, as a
minister who believes in God, I am compelled to believe in the devil. But I see
him much more at home within the evangelical movement than in most liberal
causes.”</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After giving a list of historic church-sponsored terrorism (“the
Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the history of American slavery, the
attempted genocide against Native Americans and the oppression of women”) he says:
“All these evils are or were firmly backed by biblical theology — at least, as
many Christians understand it — and, in my opinion, are all fully endorsed by
the devil himself. This is now true of the evangelical political movement,
which I believe is led by the devil and his followers.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wow! Why not tell us what you really think, Nate? The truth
is I have been thinking along the same lines recently. It seems clear to me
that Evangelicalism no longer follows Jesus. Yet I am not ready to say that its
complicity with anti-democratic authoritarianism rises to the level of evil. But
I can see how it could lead to evil. Evil never looks like evil when it is
starting out. This is how good people are drawn into evil. At the beginning evil
appears as good. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is how the serpent sold Eve on the fruit of the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He said the fruit was good, and it looked good
to Adam and Eve. The apostle Paul said that the devil comes disguised as a
messenger of light, and false apostles masquerade as apostles of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion does not help the matter. As Steven
Weinberg said, “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad
people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Salon</i> article caused
me to consider anew what we mean by the word evil. It is a concept that is
misused and misunderstood. Some see evil as a personal force in the universe, in
the form of the devil and his demons, which are understood to be real entities.
That is how Reverend Manderson experiences evil. Others see evil as simply the
absence of good. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I see both good and evil as aspects of the dualistic realm
of human existence. Yin and yang. Before the universe existed there was no
evil. Indeed there was no good either. There cannot be good without something
to contrast it with, namely evil. There was only Nondual Reality, which for
want of a better term we call God. There is still only this Nondual Reality now
for those with eyes to see. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">God is beyond good and evil. Yet we call God good and not
evil. We equate God with light and not darkness. That is because we have no adequate
word for the unicity that transcends and includes duality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Good and evil came into existence with humans. Christian
mythology says it began earlier with a fallen angel named Lucifer, who became known
as Satan. But who made the angel? The Creator did, of course! The buck stops at
the Boss’s desk. As the Lord says in the Book of Isaiah, “I form the light, and
create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I the LORD do all these things.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Regardless of the origin of evil, we cannot avoid moral
choices in this human lifetime any more than we can avoid light and darkness,
pain and pleasure, high and low, right and left. Even when we become conscious
of our unconditioned Source, we still live in the human condition. Every day we
choose between right and wrong, good and evil. To decide not to choose is
itself a choice. Inaction has as many consequences as action. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wish it were not so. I wish I could wash my hands of the
whole matter and deal only with spiritual matters. Not vote, not opine, not
think of these matters. I wish I could transcend the dualism of the political and
moral landscape and remain blissfully neutral. But neutrality is an illusion. There
is no such thing. If we decide not to be involved in political or social
causes, that choice has consequences. When neutrality benefits evil, then
neutrality is evil. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Life is messy. According to Genesis even the Creator got dirty
when he knelt in the soil of the Garden and formed humans from humus. As much
as we wish it were otherwise, we cannot remain on the sidelines. Not even by
retreating to a monastery. Hence the monk Thomas Merton named his book, “Conjectures
of a Guilty Bystander.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That reality is what led clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer to
join the German resistance movement against Hitler. He became part of the plot
to assassinate the Führer. He concluded: “Silence in the face of evil is itself
evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is
to act.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not to oppose evil is itself evil. But the action must be done from
that divine Presence that is beyond good and evil. That is how I approach
social ethics from the perspective of Christian nonduality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-22960456904689154192023-12-01T09:41:00.000-05:002023-12-01T09:41:18.977-05:00Christmas Tree Meditation<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6VI4bdiXS_UCHXRfMYT4ldLOVMfQKaan5knmaq6jEE-ogjzB1bBWrSv_9Le_145NXayScDM0FOxs6d_Skz2eS1IE2JREwJv8Cl0a6-5J-PEL69SBDYcJECttBGcFCniiUX9bMaC_cViZ8VAxQJrXNLC4lx25fkCXvaZcCatEj7tu4nuOHp4JKuDndLp8/s224/tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="224" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6VI4bdiXS_UCHXRfMYT4ldLOVMfQKaan5knmaq6jEE-ogjzB1bBWrSv_9Le_145NXayScDM0FOxs6d_Skz2eS1IE2JREwJv8Cl0a6-5J-PEL69SBDYcJECttBGcFCniiUX9bMaC_cViZ8VAxQJrXNLC4lx25fkCXvaZcCatEj7tu4nuOHp4JKuDndLp8/w200-h200/tree.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I put up my Christmas tree the other day, just in time for
Advent. I remember when it used to be a real chore. When our children were
growing up we used to go to a friend’s tree farm as a family, hunt for exactly
the right tree, saw it down, load it on top of our station wagon, and haul it
to our house. Then the real challenge began: getting the tree securely mounted
on a stand and erected in our living room. Then the decorating would begin. It was
an all-day undertaking.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nowadays I need travel no further than the shed in our
backyard, where my miniature artificial tree has been waiting patiently since
last Christmas. It used to be the topmost part of a full-size artificial tree. Now
this small portion is all I use. It stands about two and a half feet high. The
job involves nothing more than making sure it is securely in its base, putting
on one string of lights, and placing it on the shelf in our bay window. Voila!
A beautiful – and more importantly, an easy – Christmas tree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I like my tiny tree. Especially as night falls. As I write
this, it is dusk. The tree lights are just beginning to shine against the dark
background of green boughs. It prompts me to remember the symbolism of
Christmas tree lights. They are said to represent the stars that shone in the
sky on the night that Jesus was born. The words of the apostle John’s Christmas
poem come to mind, “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has
not overcome it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is the type of reassurance I need these days. These are
dark days. Authoritarianism is growing in our country in the guise of Christian
Nationalism. A Christianized form of Sharia law is being promoted by the far right.
The history of our country is being rewritten to marginalize democracy and deny
the equality of all people. Science is being undermined. Intellectual inquiry
is discouraged in favor of indoctrination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is a dark time in our nation. It feels like we might be
approaching an American “Dark Ages.” A year from now we will know better just
how dark, after we learn the results of the 2024 election, and whether they are
accepted by the states, the courts, and the people. Right now it is dusk in our
land. By next Christmas it may be night. In any case the darkness now feels
deep to me. For that reason I look for light in the darkness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Eighteenth century poet William Cowper wrote a number of
well-known hymns. One is entitled “Light Shining out of Darkness.” The opening
stanzas say: “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants
his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>/ Deep in unfathomable mines, Of
never-failing skill, He treasures up his bright designs, And works his
sov'reign will. / Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much
dread, Are big with mercy, and shall break, In blessings on your head.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There is a storm coming. I suspect the upcoming presidential
election will be the leading edge of the storm, not the end of it. As it
approaches I will be looking for God riding upon the storm and working his
sovereign will in the midst of it. I look forward to seeing the mercy breaking
forth from that storm in divine blessings. I have faith that light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-6568903827053537932023-11-21T09:06:00.000-05:002023-11-21T09:06:46.103-05:00No, Virginia, These Are Not the End Times<p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisDIUn2I6H-wHXLy6UBaDW2TDZXrCXH4L41VYstRjsx8cKK6qEphwLMIhLOPwJcVPlDhpBNUDse3q9t7ISt5ctfTjL2K8DaLm1lLwTpxy0iPvusxhcjY9NCTI1O9oEae88ZgSsWZp7afm4_m2MtULMsaEB0UFWW5AQuaIfjG-SPewput1zbH6DMRF-uxVd/s232/Virginia_Santa_Claus.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="232" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisDIUn2I6H-wHXLy6UBaDW2TDZXrCXH4L41VYstRjsx8cKK6qEphwLMIhLOPwJcVPlDhpBNUDse3q9t7ISt5ctfTjL2K8DaLm1lLwTpxy0iPvusxhcjY9NCTI1O9oEae88ZgSsWZp7afm4_m2MtULMsaEB0UFWW5AQuaIfjG-SPewput1zbH6DMRF-uxVd/w200-h179/Virginia_Santa_Claus.png" width="200" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dear Editor, I am
eight years old. Some of my little friends say that we are living in the End
Times because of what is happening in Gaza and Israel. The preacher says that
if I hear it from the pulpit, it’s so. I’m scared. Please tell me the truth. Is
it the End Times?</span></i></span></i></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">No, Virginia, your little friends are wrong. So is the
preacher. They have been affected by the religious fanaticism of a fanatical
age. It pains me to say so, but many Christians today are more influenced by fads,
politics and religious tradition than they are by God or Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Preachers say it is “the Last Days” in order to scare you
and your friends. They know that if they scare your mommy and daddy, then your
family will come to church more and put more money in the offering plate. That way
they can make a name for themselves, hoping to one day buy mansions and private
jets and be on the president’s Evangelical Advisory Board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Over a hundred years ago another little girl, also named Virginia,
wrote to a newspaper asking if there really was a Santa Claus. The editor wrote
back to her and talked about people like your pastor. He wrote: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“They think that nothing can be which is not
comprehensible to their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be
men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere
insect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about
him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and
knowledge.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">No, Virginia, these are not the End Times. Do not let anyone
scare you or your little friends or your mommy and daddy. Use your own mind and
think for yourself. Trust your own reasoning. The fact that you are asking
questions is a very good sign. You are a very brave young lady. There are a lot
of adults who are not brave enough to question what they are being taught. Never
stop asking questions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Explore what others think about this topic. Read for
yourself what the Bible really says. Ask your parents to read it with you. You
will find that there is no mention of Gaza or Russia or a “pre-tribulation
rapture.” That is a big, scary idea that a group of people made up a couple of
hundred years ago, and a lot of Christians believed them. There is no reason to
think it is true. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trust Jesus more than preachers, Virginia. Trust what he
says. When Jesus spoke of the “end of the age” he was talking about his day,
not ours. Jesus said that he would be with us always, so you need not be afraid.
He taught us that the Kingdom of Heaven does not come with visible signs but is
within us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He told us to love our neighbors, including people who look
different from us and who have a religion different from ours. He instructed us
to welcome strangers, which was his name for immigrants. Jesus told us to love
God and all people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you love and not hate, then you will see clearly. Hate
and fear confuse the mind. No, Virginia, these are not the end times. There is
no need to be afraid. As that editor said long ago, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Thank God! A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten
thousand years from now, God will continue to make glad the heart of
childhood.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(If you would like to read the original letter to Virginia, published
in the New York newspaper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sun</i> on
September 21, 1897, you can access the clipping <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus#/media/File:Yes,Virginia,ThereIsASantaClausClipping.jpg">here</a></span>.)</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-15226918380232611432023-11-16T10:17:00.000-05:002023-11-16T10:17:03.532-05:00Canceling Christmas<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg2Kgb4OD6UoEmUOjtnFjr6muqqBMzMuazFLeb9I4JcV-6Hgt0hjEOVni5Yyk3UvzOwgATwmsbB3MrNrU2WUiW_b9a8Ckka3jbECgY7Zgih7vijfrsPQu25uSJWL9Krk16JGt1h2I-VPNYcmrPXDaM8sWiYMaaz8T1iGKgdxBMprJ67jq8rFHpxrMY8C0B/s597/cancel%20christmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="597" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg2Kgb4OD6UoEmUOjtnFjr6muqqBMzMuazFLeb9I4JcV-6Hgt0hjEOVni5Yyk3UvzOwgATwmsbB3MrNrU2WUiW_b9a8Ckka3jbECgY7Zgih7vijfrsPQu25uSJWL9Krk16JGt1h2I-VPNYcmrPXDaM8sWiYMaaz8T1iGKgdxBMprJ67jq8rFHpxrMY8C0B/w200-h196/cancel%20christmas.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Christmas is being canceled in the Holy land. It is the
latest casualty of the Gaza War – in addition to the thousands of human
victims. Leaders of major Christian denominations in Jerusalem have called on
churches to tone down Christmas celebrations in the Holy Land. Instead of
joyous public celebrations, they are calling for quiet prayerful observances. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bethlehem, Nazareth, Haifa, and Jerusalem’s Christian
Quarter usually celebrate Christmas with parades, bazaars, street concerts and
light decorations. But the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem
recently issued a statement asking these Christian communities to cancel the
large public celebrations. They said that this is a time of “sadness and pain,”
and they are calling on Christians to pray for and aid the victims of war. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I doubt that this is going to put a damper on American
celebrations of Christmas. American Christians seem to have forgotten our
Christian brothers and sisters in the Holy Land. They do not stand in
solidarity with them. Tens of thousands of people came to the March for Israel
rally in Washington recently, but you will not see anything like that in
support of Christians in the Holy Land. American Christians try to outdo each
other in defense of Israel, but they never think of their fellow Christians in
harm’s way. They have effectively been canceled. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Christianity in Gaza dates to the fourth century, and Gaza
is home to some of the oldest churches in the world. There are one thousand
Christian believers living in Gaza today, a tiny fraction of the two million
population. On October 19 the third oldest church in the world, Saint
Porphyrios Church in Gaza, was damaged by Israeli missiles, killing 18 and
injuring 30 Christians. They had taken refuge in the church, thinking it would
be safe from attack. There was hardly a peep heard from Christians in America
in response. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If the third oldest Jewish synagogue in the world had been
bombed with Jews seeking protection inside, there would have been outrage from
Jews and Christians. If this had been the third oldest mosque in the world (the
Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem), there would have been an uproar from the Muslim
community. But the third oldest church? Ho, hum, who cares! Such is the fate of
Christians in the Holy Land. They are the forgotten victims of the decades-old
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Christians in the Holy Land have been living between a rock
and a hard place (the rock of Israelis and the hard place of Muslims) ever
since the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Bethlehem and
Nazareth used to be majority Christian towns. Christians were the majority when
we were there. No longer. Due to systematic prejudice and discrimination,
Christians have been forced to emigrate. Now Palestinian Christians are a tiny
minority of 180,000 in the land of Jesus’ birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I remember fondly my time getting to know the Christian
community in the Holy Land while studying for a semester at the Tantur
Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research, located on a hill overlooking
Bethlehem. My whole family came with me, and we occupied a flat with a balcony
overlooking Bethlehem. One of my instructors was a Palestinian pastor named
Naim Ateek, who traces his ancestry to the first century followers of Jesus. My
daughter’s best friend was a little girl named Maria, who was descended from a
Crusader. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We met Christians of Arabic, Jewish, and European heritage.
We worshipped at Narkis Street Congregation (at that time it was called Narkis
Street Baptist Church) in Jerusalem, a Messianic congregation, where we sang
praise to Christ in Hebrew. We worshipped at the Jerusalem Baptist Church where
we sang hymns in Arabic. We worshipped at Christ Church in Jerusalem, an
Anglican congregation with a menorah on the altar and the Jewish context of the
gospel is celebrated. Our daughter took her first communion there, the Sunday
after she was baptized in the Jordan River.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Every year we decorate our tree with ornaments from our time
in Bethlehem. We erect a crèche purchased at an olive wood workshop on Milk
Grotto Street in Bethlehem. Before Israel built the wall around Bethlehem, my
family used to regularly walk unhindered from our flat into Bethlehem. There
was not even a military checkpoint at that time over thirty years ago. (I have
hosted tours of Israel for shorter periods of time since then.) I can still
picture the little market near the border where we bought vegetables and bread.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Every Christmas I can smell the scent of incense from within
the Church of the Nativity, which we visited often. I remember drinking tea
outside the basilica in Manger square. I remember worshipping in Church of
Saint Catherine in Bethlehem and visiting the Bethlehem Bible College. We
shopped for Christmas gifts at a Christian women’s craft show in Bethlehem. We
still use those gifts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This Christmas I will remember the Christians of the Holy
Land, including the Christians in Gaza. While American Christians give each
other unneeded gifts, I will donate to relieve the suffering of innocent
civilians – Christians, Jews and Muslims – in the Holy Land. I will remember
those who observe the holiday “in sadness and pain” in the Holy Land this year.
I will speak and pray for peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While calloused politicians justify the killing of thousands
of civilians as necessary collateral damage in a war against terrorism, I will
remember innocent Christians huddling in a church in Gaza, wondering if anybody
cares. I will not cancel Christmas, but neither will I forget my brothers and
sisters of all faiths in the land where the Prince of Peace was born. As Jesus
said, “As you have done it to the least of these, my brothers and sisters, you
have done it to me.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(If you are moved to donate, I consider the most trustworthy
organization to be the <a href="https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/press-release/2023/statement-on-armed-hostilitiesin-israel-and-occupied-territories.html" target="_blank">Red Cross</a>, which is doing heroic work in the war zone of
Gaza.)</span></p></div><p></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-3113614251352582582023-11-08T13:23:00.001-05:002023-11-08T13:23:51.484-05:00The Arc of the Universe<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKU2BaFLzik6ZEYyqsBi00MBQGZ1zPw6qXntmsJYQZ9SUi8B-9tNFOHJQVI5BeT1Kg0Pm70ZwRUlCHmKbducsBFIGtzTNdvhApBlaV-lxPwZ7HP5U-yN5SURrKZEi8bXzgbQI1LcyiGfR2mEpGObGeJ0kUG7uFZLd45knQjs6Tye7YX5qy7UsqFrxsAGk/s500/arc-of-the-moral-universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="500" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKU2BaFLzik6ZEYyqsBi00MBQGZ1zPw6qXntmsJYQZ9SUi8B-9tNFOHJQVI5BeT1Kg0Pm70ZwRUlCHmKbducsBFIGtzTNdvhApBlaV-lxPwZ7HP5U-yN5SURrKZEi8bXzgbQI1LcyiGfR2mEpGObGeJ0kUG7uFZLd45knQjs6Tye7YX5qy7UsqFrxsAGk/w200-h124/arc-of-the-moral-universe.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a sermon entitled “Remaining Awake through a Great
Revolution,” given at the National Cathedral on March 31, 1968, Martin Luther
King, Jr., famously said “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral
universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Dr. King used this quote many
times in his ministry, including during the march from Selma in 1965. Barak
Obama liked it so much that he had part of the quote woven into the carpet in the
Oval Office.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">King was paraphrasing an earlier abolitionist preacher. The
original words were spoken by Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister from
Lexington, Massachusetts. Parker was an influential transcendentalist who
studied at Harvard Divinity School. In an 1853 sermon Parker said: “I do not
pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches
but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am
sure it bends toward justice.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I prefer Parker’s words over King’s and Obama’s abbreviated
versions. It is more nuanced. Like Parker I do not pretend to understand the
moral universe. My eyes see even less than Parker’s. These days it is difficult
to see justice advancing on earth. The arc of American history seems to be
bending in the opposite direction. Democracy is waning. Justice is threatened.
Truth is discarded for worldly power. American Christianity is devolving into
power politics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For those reasons I do not see the arc of the moral universe
bending toward justice in our time. If it is, the curvature of the arc is far longer
than I can see. Sometimes I wonder if the universe has a moral bent at all.
Perhaps the Yin-Yang symbol of Chinese culture is a better metaphor than the
arc. Good and evil, moral and immoral, justice and injustice, fighting with
each other - or perhaps dancing with each other - in never-ending cosmic
balance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet my Christian tradition teaches that the One who created
and guides the universe is just. The Hebrew prophets proclaimed it fiercely:
“Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing
stream.” Jesus proclaimed it. Yet Hebrew and Christian peoples have not often
lived justice. The same with our Abrahamic cousins, the Muslims. Modern
prophets who live and proclaim it - like Martin Luther King – are voices crying
in the wilderness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Still I have hope, even though “seeing through a glass
darkly,” as the apostle put it. As Parker said, “I can divine it by conscience,”
not by sight. Though God’s people are unjust, God will remain just. Though they
be unfaithful, God remains faithful. Though religious people “kill the prophets
and stone those sent to them,” as Jesus observed, God still longs to “gather
them together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not
willing.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps the Yin-Yang symbol is best interpreted as God and
humans fighting with each other for as long as time will last. Yet all
religious traditions say that time will not last forever. There is an end to
time. For those with eyes to see, that time is now. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Time is an illusion when seen
from Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is here now according to Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is no time, there is no arc of time
to bend one way or the other. Eternity is now, and Eternity is Love. God is
Love. True Love is true justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May the
arc of God’s people bend toward divine justice. </span><o:p></o:p></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-11467352188311736162023-10-20T10:11:00.000-04:002023-10-20T10:11:55.591-04:00 Gazing at Gaza <div class="separator"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrbBAkBZnOr4bq0sgsujWuJo_d6IkCdtwMO-_AHOOuozetqf0eKHvetYyaAToNq73bW2k8PDIOf_r1DuCKUEt_EzFvBW-dYmr1L4bOLTdRPQ4KZgMHNa9NX1YlgKYLIK8Z069WufhHt1v_Li31BOHlcGllgaTTxLHlb_UKJhIS5iXqusG1NHFwOYwqVlU/s1620/112379-18vid-Gaza-hospital-superJumbo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1620" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrbBAkBZnOr4bq0sgsujWuJo_d6IkCdtwMO-_AHOOuozetqf0eKHvetYyaAToNq73bW2k8PDIOf_r1DuCKUEt_EzFvBW-dYmr1L4bOLTdRPQ4KZgMHNa9NX1YlgKYLIK8Z069WufhHt1v_Li31BOHlcGllgaTTxLHlb_UKJhIS5iXqusG1NHFwOYwqVlU/w200-h133/112379-18vid-Gaza-hospital-superJumbo.png" width="200" /></a></div>Several times in the last two weeks I have tried to write a response to the attack by Hamas upon Israel and the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">subsequent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> attacks by Israel upon Gaza. Every time I have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">deleted</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> what I wrote and started over. Words fail me. Whenever I see photos of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gaza</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">today,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I think back to my visit to Gaza thirty years ago. Much has changed since then, but much has remained the same.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text;"> </span></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I entered Gaza in a United Nations van with </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); 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It </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">felt like entering</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a prison camp. Inside the gate was squalor like I had never seen. Open sewers and despair on faces. I visited the same hospital that has recently been in the news because of the controversial bombing. It was founded as a Baptist mission hospital and still had Baptist missionaries working there. We visited a children’s ward. We shopped at a small Christian bookstore. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{2e40ed6b-f4af-42a7-88ff-beb3a878edfc}{12}" paraid="1368106362" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{b5ebe58e-f70d-4eae-a41c-3be5aa83950f}{210}" paraid="1849653595" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">These people and places are what come to mind when I read the news today. Gaza is not a news story to me. It is a memory. </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> wish I knew the solution to this never-ending war in the Holy Land between Palestinians and Israelis. All I know for sure is that present actions are sowing seeds for future wars. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{b5ebe58e-f70d-4eae-a41c-3be5aa83950f}{210}" paraid="1849653595" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{183}" paraid="1721549114" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When I gaze at what is happening in Gaza, I see the epitome of the “us versus them” mentality that is present in so many countries these days, including my country. An</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> antagonistic view of the world is destroying the United States from within and threatens to undo our democracy. Our brothers and sisters are seen as enemies. Our common humanity is lost among religious, moral, and political differences.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{183}" paraid="1721549114" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{194}" paraid="1213528304" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> know what the people in the Middle East must do to end the cycle of war, but I know what I must do. I will follow Jesus. When so many people are angry and vengeful, I will turn from anger. When so many people – including Christians – are lusting for political power and influence, I will follow the Way of Christ. Jesus </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sought</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> neither power nor influence. When put on trial for treason and blasphemy, he said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight…. But my kingdom is not of the world.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{194}" paraid="1213528304" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{204}" paraid="249188816" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yet Christians – both conservative and liberal, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">evangelical</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and progressive – talk and act as if Jesus’ kingdom is of this world and can only be achieved by fighting politically or militarily. One of the worst things that has happened in my lifetime is the Church’s abandonment of deep spirituality and choosing worldly strategies instead. Spiritual matters have been forgotten in favor of attempts to legislate morality. That is not the way of Jesus.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{204}" paraid="249188816" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{214}" paraid="1324495853" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">What is the Way of Jesus? Read the Sermon on the Mount and you will find it. Read his parables and you will hear it. It is the way of the cross. It is turning the other cheek and not returning evil for evil. It is about taking the role of the servant, washing one another’s feet, and taking the lowest place. It is about unconditional love, including love of enemies. </span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{214}" paraid="1324495853" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{220}" paraid="1536024626" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">There will always be people – including Christians – who will employ worldly strategies to temporarily solve worldly problems. There will always be rulers and warriors, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">statesmen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and politicians. They may keep evil temporarily at bay, but they never address the root problem. Jesus had another plan for his church. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{220}" paraid="1536024626" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{238}" paraid="896596102" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The apostle Paul said that our fight is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces. Jesus’ brother James wrote that the cause of wars is the war in the human heart. While most of the world thinks that one more war will solve the problem, let us address the root of all war. The problem is not “them,” whoever “they” may be. The problem is us. For that reason, the solution must begin with us. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{41998fd2-07f4-4c06-9fbe-20044e8a8b70}{238}" paraid="896596102" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{09838574-a5d9-4af8-b849-557d93d61852}{181}" paraid="1054623690" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Jesus is our commanding officer, and he has given us orders. He has commanded us to love God with all our heart and love our neighbors as ourselves. Instead of hating and killing our enemies, he commands us, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” </span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{09838574-a5d9-4af8-b849-557d93d61852}{181}" paraid="1054623690" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{09838574-a5d9-4af8-b849-557d93d61852}{221}" paraid="448987776" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">That is countercultural. It is a radical approach. It is the way of the cross. To the world the way of the cross is foolishness. It is labeled impractical, naïve, and idealistic. It is ridiculed by the world as a recipe for disaster. It is seen as surrender to evil. That is why Jesus’ disciples abandoned him. They wanted to fight to prevent him from being arrested, but he told them to lay down their weapons. </span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{09838574-a5d9-4af8-b849-557d93d61852}{221}" paraid="448987776" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72037245 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW72037245 BCX0" paraeid="{45347016-45ab-4ac4-ae6b-0a65172095e9}{13}" paraid="902642548" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The way of Jesus conquered evil then, and it conquers evil now. There will always be those who choose the sword – or in our case the gun. But there is a need for some who will try a different approach, the way less traveled. There is a need for a company of spiritual warriors willing to take Jesus at his word and try the Way of God rather than the way of Caesar. As Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called children of God.” </span><span class="EOP SCXW72037245 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-83472600387052139532023-09-29T10:00:00.000-04:002023-09-29T10:00:43.004-04:00The Middle of Nowhere<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUX3G-kxQVVO7yRztK6dQNU4OVAly-wNZCdHFtpXhmsHqfxK5CADo-j_jgR4bVlbbAyifsM5rX_8kx47o3UCiHtcpk8fCNlkob91mlQ5znDBuQhS7svzY8Rf4DaDYaWj-Lb8wOX3aA4o08J5P1AtFSDiq79cm_qw3GIcUzc-BR4ACCKv9GwJZpO22Je1A/s287/white%20lake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="287" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUX3G-kxQVVO7yRztK6dQNU4OVAly-wNZCdHFtpXhmsHqfxK5CADo-j_jgR4bVlbbAyifsM5rX_8kx47o3UCiHtcpk8fCNlkob91mlQ5znDBuQhS7svzY8Rf4DaDYaWj-Lb8wOX3aA4o08J5P1AtFSDiq79cm_qw3GIcUzc-BR4ACCKv9GwJZpO22Je1A/w200-h151/white%20lake.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Last Sunday a friend of mine quoted me in his <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://providencecongregation.org/our-sermons/signs-of-the-times/">sermon</a></span>
to his church in North Carolina. He introduced the quote by saying that I lived
in the middle of nowhere. I kidded him about it later, but then I pondered the
phrase and decided I liked it. I like living in the middle of nowhere. More
people should try it. Just not in our stretch of nowhere. Then it might become
somewhere.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I dwell in a very small town as far as human population is
concerned. One hundred square miles of forest, lakes, mountains, ponds and
rivers. One blinking light. No gas station. No grocery store. Not even a
convenience store. Our house is within sight of the blinking light in the
center of the village, so we are literally in the center of nowhere. Yet our
town is not entirely off the beaten path. Every four years at least one
presidential candidate finds his/her way to our corner of the first primary
state. This year it was Robert Kennedy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The other day my wife and I decided to get out of nowhere.
It was getting busy. Usually our busyness has to do with our grandchildren,
which is a wonderful type of busyness. We love seeing them. I love that they
will have memories of walking to their grandparents’ house after school. We are
blessed. But sometimes it is nice to get off to a quiet spot by ourselves for a
while. So we went to a state park in a neighboring town to sit by a quiet lake
ringed by mountains. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a calm, sunny, warm autumn day. Not a ripple on the
lake. The mountains were in a haze. For over an hour we watched a pair of loons
diving for fish, occasionally flapping their wings. Exciting stuff. Exactly
what we needed. There were other people at the lake, including some kids, but
it was not noisy. I commented to my wife that the quiet was so deep that it
absorbed sounds like a sponge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The silence was so powerful that I could feel it sinking
into me. City folk think that quiet is the absence of noise. It is not. Silence
is a tangible presence. Noises may be present, but the silence beneath the noises
is stronger. Noises do not stand a chance in the presence of silence. Silence pervades
all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That is the way it is with the Presence of God. God’s
presence pervades everything. God is palpably present inside and outside me,
like space inside and outside a jar. The apostle Paul calls us earthen vessels.
He calls us temples of the Holy Spirit. These are accurate analogies. We are
Spirit-filled and Spirit-immersed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Bible likens the Spirit of God to the breath that we
breathe. The biblical words for spirit are the same words translated breath or
wind. God is the air we breathe, as the song says. God is breathing us. We are
the lungs of God. Without God there is no life in these bodies. The divine name
YHWH has its origin in the sound of breathing. In and out. God is as close as
our breath.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hear fellow Christians talk about coming into the presence
of God. That language is popular in worship settings. People think that by
coming into a church building, or into a worship service, or entering into an
attitude of prayer that they are coming into the presence of God. Yet how can
we not always be in the presence of God? If God is omnipresent, where else
could we possibly be but in the presence of God? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The churchly way of talking about the presence of God is really
about feelings. People need to feel the presence of God. I understand that.
Feelings are nice. Spiritual experiences are edifying. But they have nothing to
do with the presence of God. God is present whether we feel God’s presence or
not. If we ever feel like God is not present, we do not need to perform religious
rituals to recapture the feeling. All we have to do is pause to notice what is
always present, and God is instantly here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is never not here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">God is not a thing and therefore not in some special place.
God is nothing (no-thing) and nowhere, which is another way of saying everything
and everywhere. Language collapses into paradox when speaking of the Divine. Sometimes
we may feel like God is absent, like we are in the middle of nowhere. At such
times we are exactly where we ought to be. God is in the middle of nowhere. So
are you. Welcome to nowhere.</span></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-7940244089514767032023-09-18T15:58:00.000-04:002023-09-18T15:58:06.456-04:00If the Church Dies<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCznyHrxOnblssyz8gZP9a2BstmZl-jVRHwpKn8-_DJ3tfrfceSd8AevZW23uDQpj39CBhmyyoNeWzf4-Xn-ropKBex5MqS3vmTfLPOHUrF8WkedQNw2tk6mnKpYQrRcSFy4Z0YLYnOSHKmPetErLQHW1CxPDgEHr-IwZcYV6UHnwY1bl_k8SEIhvrw5E/s425/713PwqBcyvL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="276" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCznyHrxOnblssyz8gZP9a2BstmZl-jVRHwpKn8-_DJ3tfrfceSd8AevZW23uDQpj39CBhmyyoNeWzf4-Xn-ropKBex5MqS3vmTfLPOHUrF8WkedQNw2tk6mnKpYQrRcSFy4Z0YLYnOSHKmPetErLQHW1CxPDgEHr-IwZcYV6UHnwY1bl_k8SEIhvrw5E/w130-h200/713PwqBcyvL._SY425_.jpg" width="130" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">There has been a flurry of books and articles recently that
try to explain why churches are losing people at an alarming rate. A recent example
is a book entitled <i>The Great Dechurching</i>
by Jim Davis and Michael Graham. The authors begin the book with these dire
words: “In the United States, we are currently experiencing the largest and
fastest religious shift in the history of our country, as tens of millions of
formerly regular Christian worshippers nationwide have decided they no longer
desire to attend church at all.”</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They have subtitled their book: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who's Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them
Back? </i>The authors assume that this precipitous decline in church involvement
is a problem to be fixed. But I wonder: What if the Great Dechurching is not a
bad thing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if it is a good thing?
What if it is a God thing? What if God is pruning the church back to the root? What
if God is behind this exodus? Jesus said, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into
the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
What if the church needs to die?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Near the end of his ministry Jesus explained to his
disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and die. The apostle Peter’s response
was “No, Lord, this shall never happen to you!” Jesus rebuked him saying, “Get
behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me. You are not on the side of
God but of men.” Maybe the dying of the church is not a problem, any more than Jesus' death was a problem. Maybe the Great Dechurching is God’s
solution to a more serious problem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A few years ago my younger son bought an 18<sup>th</sup>
century house on sixteen acres of land in our small town in New Hampshire. At
first he planned to renovate the house. On closer examination, he discovered
that the house was in such bad condition that it could not be salvaged. The
mold and rot were too extensive. It had to be razed to the ground to make way
for a new structure. Now he lives in a beautiful timber frame home that he
built with his own hands, made from lumber harvested from his land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps the church today is in the same condition as that old
house. Perhaps it is in such bad shape that it cannot be saved. It needs to be
razed so that a new church can be built in its place. God is pressing the reset
button, just as God did with humankind in the Flood, just as God threatened to
do with Israel after the Exodus, if Moses had not talked God out of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">God has worked this way in the past, according to the Bible.
The eighth century (BC) prophets proclaimed that God was fighting against
Israel and was going to destroy it if it did not repent. Israel did not listen,
and God destroyed the northern kingdom; ten tribes of Israel disappeared from
history. In the sixth century Jeremiah fearlessly preached the destruction of
Jerusalem and the temple as the will of God. The leaders of Judah put Jeremiah
in prison for prophesying this. Jesus likewise prophesied the destruction of
Jerusalem and the Temple. The political and religious leaders killed him for
it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I do not know for sure, but I think God may be doing the
same sort of thing in our time. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great
Dechurching</i> reports that religious abuse and general moral corruption in
churches have driven people away. For decades young parents told me they were
bringing their children to church and Sunday School in order to inculcate moral
values. Now parents do not see the church as moral. Many see the church’s
message and conduct as immoral! Parents used to bring their children to church
to learn about God. Now they are pretty sure the church does not know God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The church is so corrupt and diseased that God cannot allow
it to continue. So God is surgically removing the church from the world in
order to save the world from the church. This is not the rapture of the church that
evangelicals are expecting; this is the judgement of the church that they don’t
see coming. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The church does not have a problem; the church is the
problem. The church thinks the problem is in the culture outside the church, but
the real problem is in the church culture. The church does not see that, and therefore
it has no motivation to change. Instead it doubles down on the culture wars.
Because of the church’s spiritual blindness, the only solution left to God is
so drastic that no one wants to think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The church needs to die, so it can be resurrected as an
entirely new creation. For that reason I am not dismayed when I read ever-worsening
statistics about the decline of the church. I see God’s hand in it. Like a
gardener or farmer, God is turning over the soil, in order to prepare for a new
season. Perhaps if the church repents, it can avoid the looming catastrophe,
like Nineveh temporarily escaped destruction under the preaching of Jonah. But
I see no sign of such a contrite spirit in the church. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The good news is that if the Old Testament pattern is
repeated, it means that a faithful remnant will survive the Great Dechurching,
like Noah and his family survived the Flood, like a remnant of Judah survived
the Babylonian exile. From the stump of Jesse a shoot will sprout. From the ruins
of the dying church, a living church will grow. From the microchurches that
survive the coming exile, a new Body of Christ will arise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Accepting the Great Dechurching as the will of God does not mean
I am giving up on the church. I love the church. I especially love the church I
attend, and I love the Church as a worldwide body. I am not going to stop worshiping
with a local body of believers. Instead I trust that “in all things God works
for the good of those who love God, who have been called according to God’s
purpose.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not all churches are rotten, but the great number of corrupt
churches and leaders give the good ones a bad name. Not all Christians act and
speak in an unchristian manner, but all Christians are tainted by the public words
and actions of high profile Christians who cause harm to the cause of Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Church is the Body of Christ, and ungodly Christians are
growing in the body like cancer. The situation seems to be getting worse with
each passing year. That is the cause of the Great Dechurching. Soon the number
of saintly believers will not be enough to save the church, any more than they were
enough to save Sodom and Gomorrah. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We are witnessing a great work of God in our time. It is a
work of biblical proportions. It is greater than we can imagine with our
sociological models and predictions. It is greater than religious revival. This
is resurrection. Therefore I do not lament the Great Dechurching. I do not fear
for the future of the church. For I know that if the church dies, it will bear
much fruit. </span><o:p></o:p></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-70765020659077821192023-09-11T14:32:00.000-04:002023-09-11T14:32:06.706-04:00More Than Fiction<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ31Sq844PpRaH12hawiy4cquTexLnvEdTWbwWzhDGONmKVDNgnprSNxpniduEB5c0UWkfWSJiwRCj5U6e5_EEnyfCkSFPMB11aruBjYy3vs-n2qVmdCgmOc9kbCZTks2vEsbfPuY96O6vOpesg4p4watyj0UtYWdlYowxkdNSSwiBxHue-dC4WTa9orMW/s346/Lost%20on%20a%20Page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="229" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ31Sq844PpRaH12hawiy4cquTexLnvEdTWbwWzhDGONmKVDNgnprSNxpniduEB5c0UWkfWSJiwRCj5U6e5_EEnyfCkSFPMB11aruBjYy3vs-n2qVmdCgmOc9kbCZTks2vEsbfPuY96O6vOpesg4p4watyj0UtYWdlYowxkdNSSwiBxHue-dC4WTa9orMW/w133-h200/Lost%20on%20a%20Page.jpg" width="133" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I just finished reading a humorous and insightful novel, the
first in a fantasy series entitled “Lost on a Page” by David Sharp. It is told
from the perspective of fictional characters within novels of various genres (mystery,
science fiction, romance, fantasy) who discover that they are not real. They
find out they are just imaginary figures in books being written by human authors.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In discovering they are not real, something changes. It
says, “Discovering they are fictional characters somehow gave them wills of
their own.” They begin to make decisions for themselves apart from the book
plots. Characters from various books band together to find “The World Where the
Books Are Written.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is not an entirely new concept, even though this book
takes the idea in new directions. There was a book a few years ago by John
Scalzi entitled “Red Shirts,” about ensigns on a starship in a science fiction television
show. One day they realize that while on “away missions” it is always those
with the red shirts who die. Never those in the leading roles. This was modeled
after the real TV series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Trek</i>.
The audiobook is appropriately narrated by Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley
Crusher in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Trek: the Next Generation.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The 2006 movie “Stranger than Fiction” has a similar
premise. Will Ferrell plays an IRS auditor named Harold Crick, whose life is narrated
by a voice that only he can hear. He discovers that he is the protagonist in an
author's (Emma Thompson) latest work. With the help of a professor (Dustin
Hoffman) they set out to find the author and get her to change her/his story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These works of fiction are not as fictional as they seem. Spiritual
inquiry reveals we are not who we think we are. We are not the characters we
play. If someone asks, “Who are you?” we tend to respond with answers from our
script: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>name, age, gender, family
relationships, occupation, nationality, religion, political affiliation, and a
host of other labels that we have adopted other the years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spiritual self-enquiry reveals that we are none of these
things. We could change any or all of these, and we would still be us. These
are simply roles we play in the drama of life. Shakespeare famously penned,
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have
their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts….” We
mistake ourselves for the masks we wear. We get so “into character” that we
forget what we really are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When we wake up from our fictional lives, we get a glimpse
of True Life, the Nonfictional Self behind the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dramatis personae</i>, who breathes life into us and sets the parameters
of our temporary existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The true
reality is the Realm of the Author. Jesus called it the Kingdom of God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When we wake up, the illusion of our former selves dissipates,
and we see what we always were. As the apostle Paul exclaimed, “It is no longer
I who live but Christ who lives in me!” These bodies are simply costumes for
the Spirit. The apostle speaks of the Spirit indwelling the tabernacles of
human bodies. “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you?” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our lives are open books, written by the Author of life, the
One who speaks this cosmic drama into existence. When we take off the masks we
wear, we are free. We discover who and what we really are. Under the masks we
see our real face, and we recognize it as the face of God. This is what it means
to be made in the image of God. As the apostle wrote: “And we all, who with
unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his
image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-9468868876784884742023-09-06T10:41:00.000-04:002023-09-06T10:41:03.886-04:00Banned from Communion<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0A5boou7JWsjfSNXgglG64Hw7FtmrwbsPKi8iDUqLomgp0aRxJVQV498snVdH73vOVeMSxoLe6N9e2zud7MPyEjjpam-46bwTSyyPF2EOqmuE0ZExqpN2QFYFp1hSjpJNhZWLqEEFJmr4wPeZeCQr1yOofdiqGFop9pO9XN98jc4lHt4DiPzOefT_Q_VH/s800/canceled!%20(5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0A5boou7JWsjfSNXgglG64Hw7FtmrwbsPKi8iDUqLomgp0aRxJVQV498snVdH73vOVeMSxoLe6N9e2zud7MPyEjjpam-46bwTSyyPF2EOqmuE0ZExqpN2QFYFp1hSjpJNhZWLqEEFJmr4wPeZeCQr1yOofdiqGFop9pO9XN98jc4lHt4DiPzOefT_Q_VH/w163-h163/canceled!%20(5).jpg" width="163" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Last month I was not able to take communion during the
Sunday worship service. It was not the church or pastor’s fault. In fact they
could not have been more inclusive. They intentionally serve only gluten free
vegan bread and non-alcoholic grape juice so that everyone can partake of the
same elements. It is also “open communion.” Everyone is welcome at the Lord’s Table,
no questions asked. The problem was me.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The following morning I was scheduled for a colonoscopy. We
all know how pleasant the prep for that is! The instructions made it clear that
I was to eat no food and drink nothing red or purple on the day before the
medical procedure. Strangely enough I did not consider how that was going to
affect my participation in the Lord’s Supper until I was in the worship
service. I had to bypass the elements on that particular Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even though no one was excluding me, I felt alone as I sat
empty-handed while everyone else was partaking of the communal meal. It caused
me to remember our stay in the Holy Land decades ago. I was taking a semester
sabbatical at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute on the outskirts of Bethlehem in
the autumn of 1991. My wife and three children went with me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even though the institute is called ecumenical, it is owned
and run by the Roman Catholic Church. The rector was then – and is now - a
Jesuit. My family was told that we could not partake of the daily Eucharist
with the other families because we were Baptists. Other Protestants – Anglicans,
Lutherans and Presbyterians were invited to the table – but my family, another
Baptist family from Japan, and a Mennonite family from Canada were not welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know they had their centuries-old, ecclesial and
theological reasons for excluding fellow Christians from the Eucharist. Furthermore
it would have been personally costly for these leaders to disobey church
tradition and authority. I get that. As Free Church Protestants we had no right
to insist that another tradition change their practice of the Eucharist for us.
Therefore we “never said a mumblin word,” to quote the African American
spiritual. Yet that did not diminish my feeling of being excluded because of my
faith. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ever since that time, I have been sensitive to Christians
excluding people. In the last thirty years there has been a lot of exclusion
going on. More and more people have been identified for exclusion. I am thinking
primarily about my own Baptist tradition and similar evangelical denominations.
Many Christians are becoming more exclusivistic in their thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My experience of exclusion was minimal compared to the
discrimination and persecution suffered by others, but my minor experience expanded
my empathy for outsiders and my vision of the need for a spirituality that
excludes no one. It seems to me that if a church and theology justifies the systematic
exclusion of certain categories of people - from communion, membership, heaven
or anything else - it is time to get a new church and a new theology. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These thoughts came to mind last Sunday while I was sitting
in the same outdoor worship service at the same church and offered the same
Lord’s Supper. This time I had no medical procedure scheduled, and so I
joyfully partook of the bread and the cup. I felt communion. During the ritual
I thought about those who have been barred from communion in some churches because of their sincerely
held beliefs, including the President of the United States and the former
Speaker of the House of Representatives. God bless them for not being bitter.
Their attitude is a testimony to their faith. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As I ate the sacred elements last Sunday, I prayed for all those
who are excluded from fellowship and society for a host of reasons: religious
beliefs, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, immigration status,
political views, moral standards, and many other reasons. I prayed for insight
to see how I exclude people without even noticing. I meditated on Jesus, who
fellowshipped with outsiders and sinners. Jesus taught and modeled God’s intentional
unconditional love. Even Judas Iscariot was welcome at the Last Supper. He is
welcome today. After all, it the Lord’s Supper, not ours. And it is the Lord’s
Church – the Body of Christ – not ours.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5839286112311865682.post-15611127487119782812023-08-30T10:42:00.000-04:002023-08-30T10:42:35.628-04:00Losing My Library<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivk1BDo1gUcuBH0GE3DvnzrCfKacBY7QZKteLv8CKm-DQYGLlxLKyTyT-sTOCPkGj8xDVPQIkh0wsrfyyYmOrIPtrD5g3unoh3qtr9PZwIiGnNmMaknCzh7s6nlWLEchJreUAhMHGXQaFdoZ0R-lLSg_oIRRzsQm1nP-iQ_Km73UMFbLp74YM2zYldpVXd/s363/moldy%20books.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="363" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivk1BDo1gUcuBH0GE3DvnzrCfKacBY7QZKteLv8CKm-DQYGLlxLKyTyT-sTOCPkGj8xDVPQIkh0wsrfyyYmOrIPtrD5g3unoh3qtr9PZwIiGnNmMaknCzh7s6nlWLEchJreUAhMHGXQaFdoZ0R-lLSg_oIRRzsQm1nP-iQ_Km73UMFbLp74YM2zYldpVXd/w200-h133/moldy%20books.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I was nine years old I fractured three vertebrae in a
fall, and I had to take it easy to allow them to heal properly. So that summer I
read books. Lots of books. I remember reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
on the lawn outside my house. I think that gave me respect for Twain’s
unconventional views on religion later in life.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In seventh grade I struggled in Ancient History class. To
keep from failing the class, the teacher said I could read books for extra
credit. Each book earned me one extra point added to my grade average. I recall
sitting for hours in our finished basement reading about the ancient cultures
of the Mediterranean and Middle East. That paved the way for my later interest
in history. While in high school I worked in the school bookstore. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Books have always had an important place in my life. In
college and seminary I surrounded myself with academic volumes. My dorm rooms
and apartments were lined with bookshelves. Theological books played a major
role during my spiritual search in college and while training to be pastor in
seminary. I accumulated books - and bookshelves - while in ministry. In
Pennsylvania our finished basement had wall-to-wall books. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My church office always held lots of books: biblical
commentaries, theological tomes, and practical books on pastoral ministry. I
was proud of my personal library. Books meant education, knowledge, expertise
and wisdom to me. As a theologian I believed truth could be found in books, especially
the “book of books,” the Bible (a word which simply means “book.”) I assumed
truth was found in ideas, which were contained in books. My library felt like
an extension of my brain. They were my memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I moved back to New Hampshire in 2011 I left almost all
my books in Pennsylvania. There was no room for them in our new home. My
daughter and her family moved into our previous house, on the condition that I
could store my extensive collection downstairs. I figured I could always have
access to the books if I really needed them. Then one year water got into the
basement. The moisture became mold. My prized theological library turned into mounds
of mold. Thousands of dollars of books ended up in a dumpster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Strangely I didn’t mind too much. By that time my attitude
toward books had changed. I no longer depended on them. I still read books. These
days I finish about two books a week, which means a hundred a year. I have been
here in New Hampshire for twelve years. You can do the math. That doesn’t count
all the books I purchased but never read. These books are not stored in
bookshelves, but on my Kindle, where I can access them and search within them
easily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I learned something in the process of losing my library. I realized
that truth is beyond books. At least spiritual truth is beyond books. Books contain
knowledge, and knowledge is good. The trend in our nation to ban and censor books
in school libraries is one of the surest signs that our culture is in decay. Without
free access to uncensored books, facts are lost, ideologues win, and our
culture will descend into a new Dark Ages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As important as books are to a society, they do not contain the
deepest spiritual truth. That type of truth can only we found by direct
experience. At best spiritual truth can be pointed to by those who have found
it. Books can only point obliquely to this Reality that is beyond words. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jesus
called it the Kingdom of God. He pointed to it using parables, which are
stories, metaphors and similes. Spiritual truth is not something you possess.
It possesses you. It is not something you understand; you understand all things
by it. It is like light, which was one of Jesus’ metaphors. You do not see light,
but see things by light. Jesus said, “You are the light of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spiritual wisdom is alive and active. It is not passive,
waiting for someone to take it off the shelf. For me the best books point
beyond ideas to the Source of all ideas. These books point beyond books. I find
such books to be timeless. They direct us to truths beyond religious traditions and
norms. Usually these spiritual books are old books. I find that the best of
these are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sometimes they are written more recently. For example I am
presently reading a book that was written in 1939. That is ancient history to
those generations who are identified by letters of the alphabet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet these books feel timelier than books
written this year. I am discovering – and rediscovering - ancient religious texts
of East and West. These old books point to timeless truth that are as valuable
today as they were centuries ago. These are the books I value most. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I still read new books for fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of fiction: historical novels, adventure,
sci-fi, thrillers and mysteries. Every day I read a portion of a spiritual
book. Unlike fiction I go through these books slowly to savor them. I no longer
feel the need to accumulate facts. I read to learn how to articulate truth that
cannot be found in books, expressing old truths in new words. Knowledge changes
daily in our fast-paced culture. Truth abides forever. Books grow moldy. Truth
is as imperishable as gold. This spiritual gold is what I value most.</span><o:p></o:p></p>Marshall Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13258746699175155741noreply@blogger.com1