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Priest, Prophet and our King!

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

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Jesus is The Priest, The Prophet and The King! We need to know and be growing in all three aspects of His Nature!
You see that He will establish His Priesthood, His Kingship (understanding His Kingdom and co-ruling with and in Him) and His Prophetic nature which will teach the nations by proclaiming the ways of The Father. All three aspects should be growing in His Church as we approach His full return. He will establish His Kingdom on earth, and has called His People a kingdom of priest. We must move in His priesthood to understand His Kingship.
 You see Samuel and David moving in both, as well as the prophetic. They reflected and moved in all three dimensions of His Being! Daniel was another example, or a ruler who lived priestly.
 The order is priest, prophet king in terms of types of authority in Him. This is because Jesus’ highest part is ministering to The Father, then He proclaims from the father as prophet, then He comes and rules over the nations and humanity as a King. That is also the order of His revelation in history. Priest into prophetic into Kingship. This is why we are progressing towards what He said in His prayer—“Your Kingdom come on earth as it already is in Heaven.”
These three aspects of the Life of Christ should be progressively forming in us. His priesthood speaks of His prayer life and worship; His prophetic Nature of His friendship with God or intimacy and ability to express from it; His Kingship speaks of Justice and His ability to Rule over the nations fairly-ie in righteousness. We are to be growing in each of these three areas. Often we will have seasonal emphasis in our relationship with Him—specific parts of His Life He is downloading into us. But all three aspects should be growing in us.
People are beginning to preach the Kingdom again, not just the salvation gospel; this is partly because He wants us to know and get used to Him as King as we move towards His full reigning on earth. We are the ones not meant to be surprised by the full manifestation of Our King and His Kingdom! So we can play a part in co-ruling with Him.
Do we meet Him as Priest, Prophet and King? In prayer, proclamation, and rulership! Which area do we know Him least in? Let’s work on all three so we offer a fuller representation of who Our Lord really is!

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

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Our faces start sinking, our skin releases over time, yet
the paths that we were meant to be, haven’t changed;
 but we look like less ourselves for a moment, the camera fades,
and then this too-us- passes, until we shine again.
Some struggle harder than others. We resist
 our own becomings. We have to choose again and again whether
we believe in life despite its effects. We do, and move on…
The best oldest ones make us all safe, and feel like the journey
was surely worth it.

12 Tuesday Jul 2016

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I feel like this today, not sure why, in the midst of so much sorrow, losing friends; and birthing new projects simultaneously—hope and joy enter, and something akin to a yellow expectancy! Photo’s to follow!
Perhaps joy and sorrow are tethered to the same post. That “bright sadness” which the elders develop by staying with God in grief, is, perhaps only possible through pain and loss. Trials make faith authentic or genuine as Peter taught. So don’t waste them, as Nouwen taught. Allow them to become places of transformation in your life.
This is out in one of my favorite spots in north america—the Point Reyes national park, where i did my last birthday. The space makes me feel alive in my spirit—need those spaces in more weightier times!
It’s the type of road i live on inside! I often think of the types of roads or textures people are meant to live in, as my name means: road or path or way-camino basically.
This road always makes me feel alive, myself, and eternal. I think I’ll keep dancing and skipping and kicking on “the path prepared beforehand to be my way”, as the writer of Ephesians put it. May we all! Why not?! Each of us a one of a kind poem!
“In the world, you will have troubles, but I give you My Own Peace.” My favorite translation. I might add, and funky Grace to continue to be! The courage to be is half the battle, as Viktor Frankl put it.

10 Sunday Jul 2016

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Today’s little homily!
Having a study summer obviously this year….
Studying the Rabbi’s today, came across this…
Nice rabbinical condensations of necessary basic ongoing practices:
Out of the 613 Mitzvot mentioned in the Torah, there are six mitzvot which the Sefer Hachinuch calls “constant mitzvot”: “We have six mitzvot which are perpetual and constant, applicable at all times, all the days of our lives”.
To know (the word for intimacy) God, and that he created all things.
Not to have any god(s) beside God (lit. in his face).
To know God’s Oneness.
To fear or reverence God.
To love God.
Not to pursue the passions of your heart and stray after your eyes.
That last one, certainly would bother our current cultural directives. It implies discerning between spiritual passions and “fleshly” ones. The prioritizing of the pursuit of personal happiness at the cost of others, is critiqued here, and also gets at the true nature of desire and passion. What do we really want and need.
 Good study anyways, having fun mulling over and chewing on the thoughts of the rabbis today! Truth comes in many packages as one saint said.
 Not quite as condensed as Jesus’ list (Love God with your whole being, and love others!), but pretty compressed basics in life.
I’m enjoying learning this Summer—it’s the little things of daily growth, increasing embodied knowledge and a capacity to love more fervently and wisely, which are making me happy this Summer. Shall we each continue to grow on….in our love of God and our resulting love for one another! And not be distracted or strayed aside by lesser pursuits.

Summer studies…

09 Saturday Jul 2016

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Having a study summer obviously this year….
Studying the Rabbi’s today, came across this…
Nice rabbinical condensations of necessary basic ongoing practices:
Out of the 613 Mitzvot mentioned in the Torah, there are six mitzvot which the Sefer Hachinuch calls “constant mitzvot”: “We have six mitzvot which are perpetual and constant, applicable at all times, all the days of our lives”.
To know God, and that he created all things.
Not to have any god(s) beside God (lit. in his face).
To know God’s Oneness.
To fear or reverence God.
To love God.
Not to pursue the passions of your heart and stray after your eyes.
That last one, certainly would bother our current cultural directives. It implies discerning between spiritual passions and “fleshly” ones. The prioritizing of the pursuit of personal happiness is critiqued here, and also getting at the true nature of desire and passion. What do we really want and need. Good study anyways, having fun mulling over and chewing on the thoughts of the rabbis today! Truth comes in many packages as one saint said.
 Not quite as condensed as Jesus’ list, but pretty compressed basics in life.
My other favorite quote this week: “My heart is broken in two, but God is One. The Shema implies not just God’s integration, but potentially and eventually our own, as we offer our hearts into His. We become one or integrated by staring and encountering His Oneness. We find ourselves, by losing our self definitions into His naming of us.” Nice

Father’s suffering…

02 Saturday Jul 2016

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God wraps Himself in “Night” and makes it Light! He reveals Himself with, in and through our sufferings. (from our perspective, we see only night, He is thinking about how to reveal the Light of His Love to each of us, through each new tragedy! I was at 911, and felt His compassion on all sides. His Endless Tenderness in all directions!)
I felt the same sense when at 911—God was there feeling each death, each body hurling through the air, and somehow allowing it also. He was in true pain though. It was not an absent God at all. It was as if, He had to allow this to happen, but was so regretful or sorrow-full, that it was necessary in order to reveal His Love to us. God literally allows Himself to wear Night in order to show us The Light. Can you see how much I am suffering and present with each person falling? That’s who I am. I didn’t want this to happen, but if this is what it takes to awake you to my Love….(Also, I’ve caught every one of these in My Own Hands forever—My Own Tender Palms embrace and welcome each.)

29 Wednesday Jun 2016

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Studying my favorite gospel telling of the great story of Jesus, by St John this morning—the friend of Jesus who knew more of His biography than most, and could quote John the Baptist, as an eye witness—impressive. Today got these commentaries by William Barclay which will fill out my series.
 But, this warning was on the back cover, which felt very ironic and funny, given the fact that this gospel asks us to become born again like spiritual kids, in order to understand and enter The spiritual Kingdom-that child like faith in His Grace is the key to eternal life. The orange warning also seems a bit legalistic to me—what if I did separate this set, would i lose my understanding of this gospel? Here is the mystic writer, who simultaneously talks, throughout his writings, tenderly and simply as a parent to children, to all those who want to approach and grow up into friendship with Jesus, calling us children of God.
 You would think you wouldn’t want to keep this one away from children-especially small ones! It’s little things in life which keep me laughing! I realize it was probably more about the plastic than the gospel, but it still made me laugh! Needed that.
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Wisdom’s Fruit!

29 Wednesday Jun 2016

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Wisdom’s Fruit:
Thinking this week about what or in whom Wisdom is…and how to be implanted with it’s ways. Looking at the hermeneutics of fruitfulness! Judging or interpreting the value of things by what types of fruit they have born. This is true in looking at people, government, politics, or personal decisions in the present. Or in reflecting on a person’s life.
Nice quote i came across today from some fruitful saint:
“Wisdom is known by her children, as Jesus told the people in Luke. The types of fruit we bear (creatively, in terms of projects and business, ministry, and in terms of our relationships with people and the earth) in and with our lives are obvious afterwards, once we have planted our spiritual seeds in the lives of others and those around us….the parts of ourselves we have moved in Wisdom bear good fruit. This is the law of fruitfulness.
 The parts or aspects of our lives which moved in Wisdom’s ways-indicated most overtly by love-bear good fruit in others, forever!
 This is why we cannot judge correctly in the moment, but have to look at the whole process leading towards the harvest of the fruits—then we can separate out the best pares and lemons, figs and apples, or grapes of righteousness….the choice fruit. A tree is known and interpreted by its fruit! Gentleness, kindness, patience, thinking the best of others (or recognizing what they potentially really are) etc…are the fruits we are looking for in order to interpret or evaluate the tree!
 We each are implanted with the fruits of the Spirit (listed in Galatians and elsewhere), and we each are called to plant them in the world around us. “
Or as one saint asked when making an important life decision:
“Does this bear the bad fruits of fear hatred and suspicion, separation, isolation, dis-integration, or does it bear the fruits which lead us to the wholeness of Love?”
 It’s a fruity calling to follow Christ’s way or path, and fruitful, hopefully, despite us. Let us be those who become and bear good fruit in this life! Let us be fruitful and multiply. Let us be fruity!
 What types of fruit are we bearing in our personal and collective lives, and what types of fruit are we becoming, as a person, as a family, a neighborhood, or as a nation, and as a global community? Anyway, I’m enjoying considering the metaphor of fruit this week, especially because it is very hot in Texas, and actual fruit is helping keep us going!