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Sensitize … July 15th, 2020
SENSITIZE 47
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Today: In 1909 the NAACP was founded, and nobody tried to change it to the NAAAP. Listen up.
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PoHymn: A Rustling in the Stagnant … July 13th, 2016
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Reformation
Much more than a confirmation
We are children of a reformation
Finding ways to embrace each other
Let me call you sister and brother
Escaping the screaming crowd
Who struggle with the proud
Let us take the Jesus path
Allow our hearts a childlike laugh
And weep for those bound by need
The sower going forth to scatter the seed
And determine that the way we pray
Comes from the heart, not mere words to say
And pepper the south, north, west and east
With the salt of the earth for those deemed least
We are the reformation
A royal priesthood, holy nation
I believe in you
Will you believe in me?
God will guide us through
The Son will make us free.
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Jesonian: Reasonable (Part 14) Living … March 6th, 2016
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She had found her place.
She was satisfied.
She had substance and purpose.
Then, all at once, life, which had promised only good, interrupted with pain.
She was bleeding–not excessively. Just continually. Everything that was once pure became tainted by the introduction of this new evil.
Her sense of solvency was challenged. Now her money had only one purpose:
“Heal me. Stop the bleeding. Give me back my life as I knew it.”
A change was necessary. She went from having a life to needing to live.
For to live is finding a way to continue your life when it threatens to depart.
- She sought cures.
- She studied.
- She examined.
- She trolled for possibilities.
Expensive.
For twelve years, she struggled to find a treatment while simultaneously growing weaker as her affliction drained away the essence of her will and her finance.
Life had turned on her. Unfortunately, her passion and efforts to live also failed.
She remained sick as the doctors got rich.
She found herself languishing in poor health.
Her instinct to live left her bankrupt and teetering on death.
What now?
What do you do when life turns sour, and efforts to live are foiled?
There is one choice that remains: move towards living.
Go where there is still the energy of loving and pursuing. Escape away to any living possibility.
Because living is endurance. It is deciding to add joy to the process so as not to grow weary in such well-doing. She decides to leave nothing untried.
She hears about a “giver of life.” The rumors are mixed. Some deem this miracle man to be a savior, while others insist he is the son of hell.
But living is not a guarantee–rather, a desire to continue in hope.
So she makes a plan.
Planning makes her feel better–it helps her to realize that she still has some control.
She will touch the hem of this healer’s garment, with the anticipation that mere proximity to his virtue will grant her a cleansing from all sickness.
Her idea is childlike.
Her organization, tenuous.
But her faith, willingness and joy–persistent.
She pulls her plan off–and amazingly, it works.
She is whole.
She is free to go back to life, or to return to her city to live. But it seems ridiculous to merely pass time when living is available.
So she curls up in prayer, thanks God for His intervention, and allows herself … to be born again.
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G-Poppers … November 27th, 2015
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Though a little bizarre, G-Pop decided that Thanksgiving was fine because the grandchildren outnumbered the dogs by one.
Yes–five to four.
A little too close for the sake of sanity but still within the margin of error.
As all the family busied themselves preparing the delicacies they hoped would be the winner of the day, G-Pop just sat in his chair and thought for a moment about how absolutely amazing Thanksgiving and the season leading up to Christmas truly is.
In a way it’s about Santa Claus.
Very few personalities are as much maligned and revered as the Jolly Old Elf. But he does have a special formula for approaching humanity which is a workable format, and seems to gain traction every year.
It’s never out of style. It’s never rebuked so much by the religionists that it ends up being cast aside in favor of Biblical themes, and his presence is not so bound to the manger that those who have no reverence can still acknowledge the relevance.
It’s really a very simple plan of action:
1. Get prepared.
Think about the children and get the grownups to become more childlike.
2. Climb a little higher up on the roof.
You can see better. Ground level often leaves us grim.
3. Once you see better, slide down into people’s living rooms.
For after all, there’s no way to get folks to come to the North Pole–it’s too cold. At least, that’s the rumor. Also, human beings are not interested in becoming elves. So instead, you go to them, you go into their living rooms where they fellowship and nurture one another.
4. Next, bring gifts.
We’re all suckers for a gift. As long as we don’t have to sign on a dotted line, ending up with hidden payments, a free gift opens up the human heart.
We will never be able to intimidate the world into a submission of peace.
We will never evangelize the world into accepting a common Christ.
But we can come into their homes with a great package:
A. God loves.
B. God listens.
C. God learns.
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Jesonian: The Haves for the Have Nots… August 17, 2014
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I have come to give you abundant life.
I have come so your joy can be full.
I have come to fulfill, not destroy.
I have come to give you rest.
I have come to serve, not to be served.
I have come to give you the power to become the sons and daughters of God.
I have come to bring a sword of dissension, which leads to true discovery.
I have prepared a place for you.
I have come to lay down my life.
I have come to be the light of the world.
I have come as the way, the truth and the life.
I have come to show you the Father.
I have come to proudly be the son of man.
I have come with a child-like heart.
I have come to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I have come to be the first fruits of many creatures.
I have come to preach the gospel to the poor.
I have been tempted in every way.
And most importantly, I have come to save … not condemn.
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god-awful … January 4, 2013
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Sticking ones head into a book brings a very limited scope of possibility, even if it happens to be the Good Book.
I need to realize this on my 2013 quest to become more childlike in my faith. One of the worst ways to believe is to have a screwed-up concept of God. You would actually be better off having no God at all than having a god-awful one.
A childlike faith tells me that above all else, if I’m going to continue to believe in God, I need to understand the importance of disregarding anybody who wants to make Him awful–and that’s by either definition–awful in the sense of “filled with mystery and wonder,” and also awful in the aspect of having a really bad attitude and not liking anyone.
Here are the three things I know about children in relation to belief. Children require comprehension. You can tell them stories, but you’d better be prepared to answer questions about your little tales. The minute you tell a child that there’s a God, he or she will ask you three quick questions. (1) Where is God? (2) Who made God? and (3) Why doesn’t God do more to make things better?
Even a six-year-old knows that you are confused and avoiding the issue if you answer each of those questions with, “We don’t exactly understand–and that’s why they call it faith.”
So in my childlike mind for 2013, I answered those questions–really simply.
1. Where is God? Everywhere, especially in and around those who are ready to meet needs and have needs.
2. Who made God? God is a Spirit, and therefore, He blows toward the next point of need, so probably somewhere along the line, God made God because there was a need to do so.
3. Why doesn’t God do more? We return to our premise–God is a Spirit. He has a heart and a soul, seeking out people with minds and bodies who are willing to become God to the people around them.
The second thing I need as a childlike believer is to know the difference between Jack and Jonah. Jack and the Beanstalk and Jonah in the whale sound very similar to an eight-year-old mind. I do not try to explain to myself why Jack climbed the beanstalk and destroyed the giant. I also do not try to explain to anyone whether Jonah actually spent three days in the belly of a whale. The message I got from Jack and the beanstalk is that magic beans just bring more trouble. And the message I get from Jonah and the whale is that running away from the needs of your fellow-human beings does not eliminate the pain.
The reason we’re losing young people to agnosticism is because we want them to laugh off Jack and the Beanstalk, and revere Jonah in the whale. Good luck with that.
And finally, children need to be told that faith in God is the pursuit of an earthly heaven. Keeping a child’s mind in the clouds is an invitation to making him or her lazy, indifferent and non-productive. My childlike faith demands that I understand and apply that I am here to see God’s will done on earth as it is in heaven.
So to review my three notions:
- God is a Spirit.
- I don’t plan on debating whether Jonah lived in a whale, but rather, intend on retrieving the powerful message of the tale.
- And finally, I will not wait for heaven to see heavenly things done. I will use my life here on earth to simulate my own desire.
There you go.
It begins with rejecting all religion and theology that is god-awful. Get your head out of the book, start looking for the Spirit of God, don’t argue about the Bible, and bring a little bit of heaven down to earth.
You will become a child–ready to romp and play in the Kingdom of God.
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