SENSITIZE 102
If you’re a human being, you’re not spiritual.
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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends
Sensitize … August 17th, 2020
SENSITIZE 80
Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Today: Being human means we’re flawed. Every one of us. That’s how we learn compassion.
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The B Word … February 12th, 2019
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The B word is bitch
In the urban dictionary, the word “bitch” has clumsily been defined as a term of power, but nothing could be further from the truth.
“Bitch” has one meaning and one meaning only: a person who is so unsatisfied that they must constantly complain.
Unfortunately, the mass of men in the human species contend, to some degree at least, that this is a valid assertion made about the female of the species. I don’t see men calling their male friends “bitch.”
The word pops to the forefront whenever any man feels that a woman is trying to become a human, and therefore needs to be trimmed back—exposed as a nagging witch.
Men want to marry their mothers, except…
Men want to marry someone who takes care of the house like their mothers—except in the bedroom, where she turns into a porn star. Once the thrill of the sexuality wears off, men tend to only hear their mothers talking at them. They lose interest and begin looking for porn stars outside the house.
The main reason men don’t want women to be human is that then men would have to be human, too. They would have to consider something other than hunting and might need to become fellow “nesters” with their mates. They would have to stop hiding behind their sexual drive and instead, use their appetites to engage their partners.
“Bitch” is a way of keeping women black. Yes, it’s just like using the “N word” to someone of African descent. It is a reminder to “her” that she will never, ever be considered an equal, and must be careful that she won’t be verbally, emotionally or physically abused by trying to gain equal footing.
Also, the parenthetical “bitch” that is taught by religion (“happy wife, happy life”) is used by giggling men talking about how overbearing women can be—pretending that they are submissive to this whining feminine attitude.
It is a man’s world.
And it will continue to suck until it becomes a human world—free of the word “bitch.”
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PoHymn: A Rustling in the Stagnant … April 18th, 2018
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Become a Human
No more words from me
Just you wait and see
I will close my trap
And stop my verbal crap
Allowing you to breathe
I may have a truth
But you require more proof
Perhaps I love your soul
But that won’t make you whole
To feel released, refreshed
For there is nothing worse
Than pieces of Holy Verse
To convict you of a path
Just invites your needful wrath
Closing me out of your space
For God is our maker
But refuses to be a taker
Yet I use His Word
To make you feel absurd
Chasing you from His grace
For it seems my actions
Have divided us into factions
What once was a joyous peace
Becomes a manipulated tease
Sinners probing for a winner
Forgive this foolish fraud
Place your faith in God
Let sweet time pass away
We will meet on another day
When I have become a human.
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Jesonian … December 16th, 2017
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A day in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
Although most theologians would like to focus on the 24-hour period leading up to his crucifixion, the Gospels do offer us other examples. One of the primal outlines is found in Matthew, Chapters 12 and 13. You may feel free to read it–I will not tax your spirit or patience by parsing it verse by verse–but there are six things that become clear from perusing the story line.
1. Jesus was not a theologian.
His disciples walked through a field of corn, and even though it was forbidden by religious edict to eat it–especially on the Sabbath–they partook. Jesus defended them to the Pharisees, who were ready to leap upon the activity to prove the unworthiness of Jesus’ Kingdom movement. During this exchange, Jesus makes a profound statement: “The Sabbath is for man.”
It is geared for us, in order to replenish, rejuvenate and renovate our thinking.
2. Jesus was not a rabbi.
He strolls into a synagogue and disrupts the service by healing a man with a withered hand. He is accosted for this untimely interruption, and replies, “Each one of you will save a donkey from a trench, but you won’t do anything to help this fellow.”
Yes, Jesus was guilty of interrupting the flow of worship.
And contrary to the common patter:
3. Jesus was not a Jew.
Not only did he break the Jewish laws, taunting them in doing so, but we are informed that he was a voice, a spirit and a teacher in whom the “Gentiles could trust.”
Even though his proximity to Jerusalem might generate the assumption that he was a Son of Abraham, he made it clear that he was around “before Abraham.”
Shall we press on?
4. He was certainly not a traditionalist.
The religious leaders believed he was satanic. They swore he was casting out demons by the power of Satan. Of course, none of them could cast out a demon, but Jesus made it clear that he had come to destroy the works of the devil and that they needed to be careful not to mock the moving of the Holy Spirit just because it was inconvenient to their case.
So Jesus is not a theologian, a rabbi, a Jew or a traditionalist. And by the way:
5. Jesus was not a family man.
When interrupted by his mother, brothers and sisters during a time of ministry (because they wanted to take him home, thinking he was crazy) Jesus turned to the crowd and claimed them as his new family.
Yes, Jesus might find it difficult to be in a church service, welling up over allegiance with people simply because of shared DNA.
So as Matthew describes a day in the life of Jesus, when he defies theologians, upsets a rabbi, walks away from Judaism, breaks traditions and sidesteps family involvement, he ends the discourse by establishing who the Nazarene really was.
For the Master sat down and told a story: “The sower went forth to sow seed.”
6. Jesus is a sower.
He’s not concerned about isolating off perfect soil, but merely casting the seed in the direction of any possibility.
A day in the life of Jesus will let you know that his message was human, geared for humans, addressed to humans, human-friendly and human-saving.
He discarded religion in favor of the reality of those souls God sent his way.
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Good News and Better News… November 20th, 2017
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As we drove to our weekend gig, we crossed Tampa Bay, and Janet was able to quickly snap a fuzzy picture of a fish jumping out of the water.
A moment in time.
The truth is, in the climate of our present social insurrection, human souls everywhere are attempting to leap out of the murky waters of despair. It just isn’t very fun…being unhappy. Even when other folks around you insist that they,too, are miserable, that particular form of fellowship is quite unfulfilling.
The problem is, we think the Bible has all the answers, and if we pass it along to lost souls, they will be able to find their way to salvation.
It’s similar to being hired by a corporation and having the rule book passed to you, thinking that the regulations which have been jotted down should be able to guide you through the daily activities of your workplace.
Everybody knows the company manual has nothing to do with the success of enjoying your job. It’s all about your manager and how he or she uses the rules to generate a friendly, human, creative environment.
Here’s a simple statement: Christianity is just a bag full of beliefs until we come along and agree together on a philosophical approach and implement the
ideas.
So you see, I placed in today’s article a picture of an empty church. I think that’s where we need to start.
Our churches may not be full of people, but they are full of religion, practices, traditions, and preferred culture. Most of this has nothing to do with the teachings and lifestyle of Jesus.
We would do better to imagine our churches empty–and start from scratch to build an environment of people who are accepting, understanding, filled with good cheer and ready for both evolution and revolution.
The fish are jumpin’–but there’s no one there to catch ’em.
We’re too busy maintaining our traditions and our worship style. We want people to become “church folks”–so they have to accept the culture to fit in.
It is time for the church to ‘manage’ itself better, and create an atmosphere which I shall dub “compassionate chaos”–where mercy is revered much more than sacrifice.
The good news is that Jesus gave us a lifestyle, not a religion.
The better news is, if we will empty our church of too many pre-conceived religious practices, we can fill it with actual living human beings.
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Jesonian … October 7th, 2017
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It is nearly impossible to be Jesonian–a true follower of the heart of Jesus–without fully comprehending that there are two Gospels. Shall we name them the “Galilee Gospel” and the “Jerusalem Journey?”
It is the reason theologians struggle with the message of Jesus, finding themselves complicating it so that the dual approaches can co-habitate within one faith. But it’s an error to do so.
Jesus had one message but two missions. His two missions were:
- To bring the message to fulfill the love
- To present himself as the doorway to fulfill the law
In Galilee he talked about life–abundant life. He lived with his disciples in joy–fully. He spoke of God as a Father and all of us as brothers and sisters. He explained the dangers of anger and lust. He clarified that the things we do to other people are recorded as actions performed to God. It was human–everyday fodder for feeling and believing.
But to fulfill the Law of Moses and welcome the Children of Abraham into his mission, he labored among the stringent, inflexible Jews, trying to reason with them and gather them together under a new understanding. These religionists had “jot-and-tittled” themselves into frantic insecurity about the purposes of God, and even, to a degree, agnosticism about the existence of Jehovah.
The Jerusalem Journey was filled with thinking, musing, mulling, wondering, questioning and attempts at compromise. It was a futile effort to afford political correctness to a manifesto meant for the whole world, and not merely designed for one hundred miles of landscape in the Middle East.
Did Jesus know that the Jews were going to reject him?
Did Jesus know it would end so badly, with his execution on a cross?
You can debate that all you want, but we are certainly aware that he reached a point where he had to relent to the conclusion that you can’t “put new wine into old wine skins.”
The problem in today’s church is that we focus too much on the Jerusalem Journey and don’t thunder the celebration of the Galilee Gospel.
Too much musing, too much debate, too much thinking and too much meditation.
It’s time for us to return to the Gospel of Galilee, when life was abundant and joy was full. It’s an easy message to remember: go, do, give, be.
- Go unto all the world.
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
- Give and it shall be given unto you.
- Be perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.
Such a message offers redemption for failure, while simultaneously providing exhortation to challenge indifference.
There is a danger that we in the church will stall–trying to fulfill the law instead of fulfilling the love.
Stop thinking so much about it.
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