Happy New Year

1/1/18

I find it curious that everyone who reads the bible knows that Jesus said he will come back one day, but no one ever asks “Where will Jesus be coming from?” I think the lack of this question shows how slow we are to evolve and learn as a world culture. Many people are intelligent, but as collective political and national creatures, we fall very short on the intelligence scale. Jesus also said that “You will be Gods,” [somewhere in the NT], but it is obvious that our godhood will be a very long time coming. Yet, I think it is exactly this fact that helps Jesus look on our shenanigans with patience and abiding love.

Well, if anyone reads what I write here, they already know where Jesus comes from. Jesus is the Cosmic Christ, the Universal Messiah, he walks through time like we walk through a heavy wind. One day we will carry our knowledge of Jesus Christ to other planets and fill the Milky Way Galaxy with love for him.  It is my worry and hope that we don’t splinter off into religious groups on different planets. Just this moment, as I write this, Jesus tells me that we won’t splinter according to religious beliefs and that we will learn to accept each other’s belief systems and work around them. This makes sense if we mature. After all, we all have the same God no matter what our belief involves, or even with no belief at all, God is still our center of being and partner in all things.

It was Jesus who said we would become Gods one day. I was reminded of this statement by something I read. Right away, my mind bloomed with a million questions. My final question was, “What quality do we humans have that will allow us to become Gods or God-like one day?”  

To look at us now, it would seem an impossible dream. Yet, Jesus knows of what he speaks. So the question remains. Ideally we can be courageous, curious, daring, inventive, and creative. These qualities are good but none of them seem to rise us up to the power of Godhood. For the true answer we need only look to Jesus himself. What was Jesus’ most repeated and overriding theme? Love and compassion. This is what Jesus asked of us, “To love one another as yourself.” So to become Gods all we need do is value each person as much as we value ourselves; to commiserate, to empathize, to feel another's pain or joy, to mentally be able to walk in another person’s shoes. And, I suspect, that by the time we finally, collectively, achieve this simple request, we will truly be Gods.

1/1/18-Copied from the comment section of the New York Times.

The "liberal" truth is that economics determines the success of a society -- and that wealth (and the power that attends it) concentrated in the hands of a few will bring a society to ruin, whereas an economic system that delivers a fair return to all those who contribute to wealth creation, will make a society successful. The proper role of government ("politics") is to tame and moderate the hunger of the wealthy and powerful to become ever more wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyone else. Our society is doubling failing (and perhaps doomed) because the wealthy now control politics. Government under Republican control now promotes inequality rather than acting as a check on it.” By Wayne Buck.

I ordered the NYT more than a year ago and still think it is worth (the discount) price. I like the Opinion Essays and the comments people send in. I also like to add my own opinion once in a while. Actually, I think the Freep should copy this type of comment scheme for its own electronic editions. I am constantly surprised at how intelligent and thoughtful people’s comments can be.

Jan 6, 2018

This morning Jesus walked with me up to the mountain peak to that special place above the world where the sky is always blue and the grass is forever vivid green and sprinkled with colorful wild flowers, where even the boulders seem perfect. He assured me it was good to gather in a large group to absorb God’s love and recharge our batteries. So for one minute, after calling minds from all around the world, thousands of like-minded lovers stood upon this mountain peak where the light of God blazed like a beacon to call us together. After a few minutes, we dispersed and walked back around the earth to share this nourishing light with other people.

Lately, I have been attempting to meditate and carry intense God light while going about my day. It would seem to be easy but it isn’t. I tend to forget and need to keep bringing back the image of a large rose I created in the center of my being. The rose is semi-transparent and is so filled with God light that it glows. I held on to this image as I went about to share God’s light this morning.

I went to a wounded veteran who lay in bed afraid for his future without half an arm and leg. I peeled a rose petal off from my center of being and wrapped it around the man. I left the rose petal as I walked on to share peace and love with another person. I went to a person in a wheelchair who was distraught with life in general and wrapped a rose petal around her too. I went to a young mother in Detroit who has a job but her paychecks don’t cover her children's needs. I wrapped her in a rose petal and empathized with her deep worry and asked Jesus to help her. I also went to a baby who was in the hospital in dire need of healing. The parents sat by the baby’s bedside deeply troubled and fearful. I peeled a petal off the rose and wrapped it around the baby over and over because the baby was so tiny. The father saw me and nodded his thanks. Since God’s love is perfect, a little extra of that love wrapped up in a rose petal may help the baby recover.  

Lastly, we as a group stood and pushed against any negative wisps of spirits roaming the world and pushed them back into their deep well. I watched as the well sucked them back home. We intend to keep this up as long as necessary until people are free of their influence.

A representation of the rose inside me

Jan 20, 2018

As the rosary began to play and before I met the others on God’s mountain top, I cleared my mind of the bits and pieces of everyday thoughts that kept floating around, and then felt the bright glow the rose that covers the center of my being. It expanded in size and power and the central spot of light glowed brighter. By the time I met with the others who had gathered, I noticed that they too had flowers in their centers and God’s light glowed from their bodies. As we grouped together, the whole circle seemed to be like a growing flower that bloomed over the whole of the mountain top. At this moment, we turned and sent the light down into the valleys below, which is the whole of earth. Within minutes the whole of earth was covered in an ocean blanket of soft light, its waves rippling over and over and rolling back to the beginning.

Then each of us stepped down to share the light we carried with any people who we found in need. I went to two young teenagers this morning. The first had dark skin and was a little plump. He was in an all-consuming rage. I wasn’t sure what had made him so angry but suspected his parents. I plucked off a rose petal and wrapped him within as I whispered over and over. “Calm down.” I repeated this and assured him that it isn’t as hopeless as it seemed this minute. “They don’t understand,” I told him. I whispered into his ear for a long number of minutes until I felt his anger ease. By the time I left, he didn’t have tears in his eyes, but he had internalized his anger into self-pity, which I felt was an improvement because he would be less likely to lash out.   

The next boy I went to with very light skin, seemed young because of his small stature. He was going to hang himself with a cord he tied to a wall fixture. I felt frantic to stop him, but calmly wrapped him up in a rose petal and began to speak slowly. “Wait a few days,” I said to him. “Just wait. It will get better” I kept repeating this over and over. When he didn’t seem to want to listen. I told him that he would excel in a few years and leave those other kids far behind. When you pick up awards in science, they will be fat and sloppy and raising kids. You will be the one the world is proud of, not them. I kept showing him an image of the other kids living a life much worse off than him. Over and over for about five minutes I repeated all these images and words. “Give it time.” I begged him. Finally, he listened. He untied the cord, walked into the kitchen, and even threw it away in the wastebasket. He still felt devastated by what the other kids were saying about him, but I think I gave him an image to hold on to. Will he make it big one day. I believe he is the type of kid who reads and studies a lot, so of course, he will do well.

Lastly, I went to a tiny infant who seemed to be struggling to breathe. I wrapped the baby in a rose petal and prayed that she recover. I also went to a young black mother who was crying and did the same. I don’t know what her problem was, only that she needed a good hug and prayer. I also went to a few people I know who are in need of God’s healing touch.

By now the rosary was done and I felt my meditation went well this day, it doesn’t always. I am determined to hold on to the rose within me and learn to keep it ever present even when I am not meditating. Because who knows when a soft rose petal filled with God light might be needed.