Jail Time

I'm just sort of wondering what would happen to folks in prison for serious crimes if the law was altered.

If one person is harmed inside the walls of the prison, then all within are held equally guilty of the crime.

Aside from psychopaths, I can't see how this would not be able to improve their lives within.  Work together or suffer the same fate as the next guy.

Just a thought.  I've been watching NCIS if you can't tell. :)

Not exactly a spiritual thought I know.  But it's what's in my mind at the moment. 

John.

Creation

In meditating today I came to a new thought.  Didn't much like it at first as it contradicts one of my older thoughts and we do humans have never been big supporters of change. 

But I looked and looked at it and could not find a way to refute it. 

I've thought for years that we are creators created in the image of God who is our creator.  I was wro...wrou...

You know that word the means not Right!  Ok. I can say it.  Just give me a moment. 

I ...was....wrong. 

There!  I've said it and we shall never speak of this again. LOL

So anyway, it came to me that God created and it was One creation.  The creation encompassed all things in all times in all ways.

What we do is not to create, but to see, to glimpse or maybe just perceive different parts of his creation at what are for us different times.  I guess it's like the string theory the scientists tells us about.  Multiple universes and the like.

When we pray in faith we can see things differently, different outcomes which we sometimes see as amazing or even divine.  Which they are.

But it's not God's creation that has changed, but our seeing of his creation that has expanded.

God and his creation is perfect, complete, whole and holy.  Our perception is not.  When we see something different we think it's a WOW moment.  It is, but only for us.  God and his creation have not changed.  We have changed to enable us to see more of what is really there in the light that God created.

Ok, done popping off.

Just my thoughts.

Easter

Easter has always been a bit confusing to me as for most folks it seems more a celebration of the crucifixion of Christ than of the resurrection.  Died for our sins.  Yes indeed.  But he did so much more than that.

For me it's always been about the resurrection and the ascension than anything else.  We always see the cross on christian things.  Bibles and Churches and necklaces and rings and what not.

What symbol do we have for the resurrection?

I myself wear a ring with a cross on it all the time.  A hollow cross that reminds me that the cross is an empty thing and a doorway to other things.

I think Christ did not come to show us how to die, but how to live and live well.  To remind us that we are not of this earth, just passing through it via the body.  He showed us, right up personal and direct that there is no death. 

"Fear not"  What a great lesson!  Which we have a great tendancy to ignore whenever possible.  Most of us spend our lives fearing everything and in so doing show our lack of faith.  We worry over the job, the relationship, retirement, the kids, the boss, the car, what does he or she think of me.  And on and on.

We are to bring All things to God in prayer.  And then leave them there!


Fear not.  A simple lesson that takes all of our attention to actually learn to do.  Must be why we were also told to keep our minds stayed on God and to pray constantly. 

Bodies do not have souls.  They are simply vessels for souls.


We are the children of the living God.  Not just bodies.  Souls using bodies to interact with other souls also using bodies.

We call him the Messiah, the Teacher.  And that's just what he did.  We so very often seem to miss the lessons though.  At least I know I do.

And where the hell did that damned bunny come in?  Eggs?  Candy? 

We really do come up with some rather bizarre ideas we do.

Incidentally if you've never had it.  Fried rabbit is great!  It really does taste just like chicken.

Just my thoughts.

John.

How we think is how we live.

Recently I got a short pay check.  Too short for me to pay my rent on my time.  I always pay on the 15th or there about when it's not due till the last day of the month. 

Just a habit I've picked up as a cushion.  Well.  It didn't work this time around, so I'll be eating bread and cheese for a while till I get things back on track.

I prayed.  "There is always more than enough, I know this is true, as it has always been true.  The Father will not give a stone to a child who asks bread."

Next day, there it was.  A check from some Government agency I've never heard of for 410$ andsome change.

And I can pay the rent on my time once again. :)

Coincidence?  I don't think so!

Create well this day my friends.

John.

AARP on the move

Wow!  I got a letter form AARP today asking me to join up. 

Geez, I'm only 49 years old!  They want me half in the grave already. 

What they think life ends at 50?  My Dad is 70 something I think, and still going strong. 

While I'm ready to leave this world, and at times more than ready to do so.  It's not due to my age.

I'll go when I'm damned good and ready! 

Silly people!  I'm going to live forever.  This is God's word to me.  Now where I choose to live...that is up to me.

Be well all,

Create as if there is no tomorrow, because there's not one.

John.

How strange this life is

Today I've been reading blogs from my family and friends and am seeing a theam going on.

Prayer.  What does it do?  What does it accomplish?  Why bother with it?

These are my thoughts on the matter.

Prayer is not the speaking of the words "Thank you father for this food" is not a prayer unless you actually mean it.  Prayer is a feeling, a purpose, a commune with God.  A time of talking with God within and without.  For he is in our inside lives as well as our outside lives.

The Bible tells us to pray constantly and what better way to spend a life than to do just that?

I of course don't, or I'd most likely have moved on from this place before.

So...I give it a shot now and again.  But I'm lazy and the Father is patience.

What to say?  In your mind, see things as you would have them be for Yourself!  Doing so for others is a chancy thing as they are praying also and you don't know for what.

No matter what they say out loud you won't know their heart.  That's God's job.  And people lie.  Even to themselves.

Life is a prayer.  How we live is how we pray.  Seems a lot of folks don't believe that.  Yet how else would God be always in our lives, in our heads and with us always?

When it's all done and done and your at your lowest.  Is that not when God steps up and takes care of things?

He has for me at least.

And so often it's not an external thing that changes.  It's inside me, the way I see something, the way I do something, the way I think of something.  Behold!  There is God.

Again and again.  And I have to wonder if the worries of the world come to me or do I attract them to me.

If I can do that, I can be rid of them as easily.

God created us to be creators.  Don't settle for being small.  Be large!  Truly live as if there's no tomorrow.

Heck from what folks tell me the world will end in 2012.  According to the Aztec calendar.

Personally I wonder if the Aztecs just figured that they had done enough and let future generations do their own math.

Be well all and know you are loved.

Create a great day.

John.

How we reach out to God

I was just thinking about a church service attended a few weeks ago.  I'm not a regular goer by any means,

but this place I'll return to.

Folks talk a lot about true faith and the "real" path to God.  These folks seem to truly be trying to get there.

It's a very small church.  Maybe 30 folks or so in total.

In mid service one younger christian stated that we got to the path to God through work.  It's that sort of congregation that impresses me.  The congregation can and does ask questions, the the preachers/ priests/ whatever you choose to call them.   Answer them.  Pretty much a Q and A session each time. 

I love that!

If you can't ask others questions about God in church or ask God in church then what use it is?  Why bother?  Taking someone else s  view of God and just accepting it is rather silly to my mind.  Need to find out for ourselves.

At any rate.  This fellow had stated that we get to God via work.  He was stopped immediately and advised that God comes to us through Grace and not work.  So very true.

There is not one thing in the world we can do to bribe God with our works or our money or our promises to do this or that.

He gives, we receive and that's all there is to it.  We tend not to like this one wee bit.  We have that desire to give and get.  Even the people in the lowest positions in life believe that all is give and take.

Yet...we are not God.  The rules and different when dealing with God than with man.

We are not God, we are the children of God that are still in training to join him back home.

All that comes to us is a blessing of God.  If we know it or not.

We live in grace and we end this world in grace.  It's all his giving and none of what we do.

What we do have a need to learn is how to accept that grace.  Blessings come and we tend to ignore them or discount them.  Thus we place ourselves in our own mind further from God.  We talk about coincidences, or things that "just happen".  They don't.  We create within God. And by his grace we create all that is in our lives.

It is never our work that brings us blessings.  But God's love that does so constantly.

I don't need to work for God.  He is water to me.  My environment.  My life.  No need to seek him out, just accept that he is here with me always.