Sons and Daughters of God

Link:    Bishop Spong on our divine inheritance.

May I add - We are ALL sons and daughters of God! 2Cor, 6:18, Romans 8:16,  Psalm 82:6. 

And yes, in Jesus, the fullness of Being resided, but it also means, and he taught, that we, too, can evolve to his status - "and you will do greater things than this.." John 1:50, John 5:20  We get too stuck in this material world and forget our real status in the Life of Being (God, Universe, whatever). Don't dummy down what and who you are. There is no separation of divine and not divine - all is divine - own it.

Apropos

History always repeats itself.

Reading 1 Jer 14:17-22

Let my eyes stream with tears
day and night, without rest,
Over the great destruction which overwhelms
the virgin daughter of my people,
over her incurable wound.
If I walk out into the field,
look! those slain by the sword;
If I enter the city,
look! those consumed by hunger.
Even the prophet and the priest
forage in a land they know not.

Have you cast Judah off completely?
Is Zion loathsome to you?
Why have you struck us a blow
that cannot be healed?
We wait for peace, to no avail;
for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.
We recognize, O LORD, our wickedness,
the guilt of our fathers;
that we have sinned against you.
For your name’s sake spurn us not,
disgrace not the throne of your glory;
remember your covenant with us, and break it not.
Among the nations’ idols is there any that gives rain?
Or can the mere heavens send showers?
Is it not you alone, O LORD,
our God, to whom we look?
You alone have done all these things.

Visions

Quan Lin weeps for her children

and Francesco

begs for relief.

The Green Beauty is shocked 

as the West disappears

and white waters rush

at her feet.

The world is in mourning,

and some will play on grief.

Peace will come,

but later, much later.

      agd 6.29.16

A Closer Walk with God

God cannot be explained in human words. God is an experience. 

"The best we can do is to walk daily in the experience of God. We walk without road maps; we never find security. Certainty is not a possibility. Does God disappear in our inability to capture the divine in the words of the human? No, but idolatry disappears. Perhaps the best we can do is to pray for “a closer walk with God.” That is the mystical path. I choose to continue my journey into the Source of life, the Source of love and the Ground of Being without any clear or certain answer."

John Shelby Spong

The Precipice

The Precipice

I'm leaning,

leaning over

the edge of tomorrow.

It's so high up

I can barely distinguish

the distant terrain.

But why wonder about tomorrow?

Today has enough

to entertain and to wonder at.

And if I jump over

the edge of tomorrow,

will it not still be today?

Tomorrow never comes.

Today is all there is.

Live it.

agd

Grace and Healing

" The word “grace,” so freely used in religious circles, means the recognition that we are ultimately not self-made people, but are dependent on another for both life and love, which for me are synonyms for God. .....

The task of the would-be healer is to enable every person, no matter how badly he or she has been wounded by life, to find the courage to be all that he or she can be."  

Bishop John Shelby Spong

Grace and Healing

" The word “grace,” so freely used in religious circles, means the recognition that we are ultimately not self-made people, but are dependent on another for both life and love, which for me are synonyms for God. .....

The task of the would-be healer is to enable every person, no matter how badly he or she has been wounded by life, to find the courage to be all that he or she can be."  

Bishop John Shelby Spong