What the heck...this thing posted an empty entry...I didn't feel right leaving it empty...that's better
Saturday, June 28, 2003
I don't know if I like the color change...looks kinda like I threw up on the screen...oh well, for now it will have to do. Have to make some salsa for our meeting tonight. I think we are breaking chips instead of bread...
I have found myself getting lost in the rat race...losing my focus...forgetting why I do what I do...buying into the instant gratification culture we live in...time to take a step back and breath in some life from the giver of life.
I've been walking around like a dead man...no life...no purpose...no direction...
Time to go to the river...
As a friend of mine wrote in a song...
Fountain of life come and fill me up
Aloud to you I cry
Restore in me your ever present peace
To You I give my life
How appropriate a prayer
I've been walking around like a dead man...no life...no purpose...no direction...
Time to go to the river...
As a friend of mine wrote in a song...
Fountain of life come and fill me up
Aloud to you I cry
Restore in me your ever present peace
To You I give my life
How appropriate a prayer
Monday, June 16, 2003
Goodness! How difficult it is to believe in the sort of Messiah that Jesus of Nazareth represents!
To believe that we win by losing our very selves!
To believe that love is everything.
To believe that power is a great danger, wealth slavery, comfortable life a misfortune.
It is not easy.
This is why you hear [people] in the street say, "If there was a God there would not be all this suffering."
Two thousand years have gone, and there are still Christians whose doctrinal notions belong to those ancient days when the power and existnece of God was revealed by displays of strength and the victory of armies. And especially by wealth and having more possessions.
The real secret had not then been recieved.
Nor is it recieved very easily even today.
Hence the blasphemy in general circulation denying the kingsom's visiblity, given the ordeal of suffering and death.
The old teaching that we, the Church, must be strong still feeds our determination to possess the land and dominate the world.
We must make ourselves felt. We must keep our enemies down. We must scowl. We must win, and to win we need money, money, money. And to have money we need banks, we need the means and we need clever bankers. How can we do good without means, without money? Let's have a big meeting, and then any opposition will be shamed into silence. Well, we must defend out rights, the rights of the Church.
We must defeat our enemies.
Enemies, always enemies on the Church's horizon! Yet Jesus has told us in no uncertain terms that we no longer have any enemies, since they are the same people we are supposed to love, and love specialy.
Can it be the we have not understood?
Don't we read the Gospel in our churches?
How long shall we wait before following the teaching of Jesus?
Carlo Carretto from "Why, O Lord?"
To believe that we win by losing our very selves!
To believe that love is everything.
To believe that power is a great danger, wealth slavery, comfortable life a misfortune.
It is not easy.
This is why you hear [people] in the street say, "If there was a God there would not be all this suffering."
Two thousand years have gone, and there are still Christians whose doctrinal notions belong to those ancient days when the power and existnece of God was revealed by displays of strength and the victory of armies. And especially by wealth and having more possessions.
The real secret had not then been recieved.
Nor is it recieved very easily even today.
Hence the blasphemy in general circulation denying the kingsom's visiblity, given the ordeal of suffering and death.
The old teaching that we, the Church, must be strong still feeds our determination to possess the land and dominate the world.
We must make ourselves felt. We must keep our enemies down. We must scowl. We must win, and to win we need money, money, money. And to have money we need banks, we need the means and we need clever bankers. How can we do good without means, without money? Let's have a big meeting, and then any opposition will be shamed into silence. Well, we must defend out rights, the rights of the Church.
We must defeat our enemies.
Enemies, always enemies on the Church's horizon! Yet Jesus has told us in no uncertain terms that we no longer have any enemies, since they are the same people we are supposed to love, and love specialy.
Can it be the we have not understood?
Don't we read the Gospel in our churches?
How long shall we wait before following the teaching of Jesus?
Carlo Carretto from "Why, O Lord?"
