9-11-11 reflections

If there are people worth asking "what's the most important part of life?" those answering always say people, relationships, sharing. Duty only stands as it is applied to these. Religion can be tested for purity by how it serves these, what it produces. Today I will spend with people, to accoumplish nothing more than relationship, sharing appreciation and love. (thank you Jesu)

Sundays' Remix

In the beginning, there was a week and it began with a Sunday.
(In our western tradition it seems like the end of a week.) I, for some twenty years now, have gone to church on this day. I am not sure what the guys that invented it were intending, I can only understand it to a degree since I have no firsthand knowledge of the cultural significance. I think it was supposed to be a life infusion-ing thing. I would not characterize my experience exactly like that.
Most weeks I am disappointed. That may be a good symptom. Each week I hope that doing church will be something that it never quiet ends up being. I know umpteen ways to spin it so that I can be at peace with the rather dissatisfied feeling I am familiar with.
The oratory that I hear sounds like a pep talk for a corporate cubical inhabitant. Duty, rule keeping and the importance of the lowliest janitor is what I take home.
What I want is a sermon like; Jesus the Passionate Lover, Impractical Romantic Life or The hippies had it mostly right.
If you've read the story the bible has to offer, you would conclude it sounds like a soap opera; a melodramatic epic, not a clinical, mathematical formula.
I think church is for people who want to live like poets, not responsible members of the world.
Its a counter-culture. Its for vagabonds and pilgrims. The World is a place to hustle, but not be a insider or conformer or a sell-out.
Making a disciple is drawing somebody out, to hustle with you and the other highwaymen of the faith.
I guess I need to either leave where I currently attend or.....get a little crazy and possibly be asked to leave.

Relational developements

As I have asked, He was faithful to deliver.

Since my last post I have had the opportunity to meet and speak with, at length, four persons who were real live powerhouses, though like Gandolph while in the shire, somewhat cloaked with plain-oldness in outward appearance. Each were somewhat akin to me in attitude toward what they have found both in the world and in the church.
Like me, they had all hoped that leaders would care about them while leading, that those in a position to hear a case and make a call would do so without bias though it might be to their own hurt, that the "parent" (in a relationship) would give grace and take more responsibility than the "adolescent", and that the church would work less like a business and more like a Holy Order.
The background of each of these folks included personal assistant to Corey Tinboom, multimillion dollar company founder, apostolic church planter and performance academy founder. Each having found a high degree of success has recently taken a step back and is now searching for the answer, though not in the usual or familiar places.
Each believes that God is up to something...new.
Is this who I prayed for?
What am I supposed to do now?
I think I need to pray some more..

11-25 What it comes down to.

Well, I was talking today to one of my friends(Jesus),
and as I answered the question of what I want going into this holiday season, I answered; "Relational Connectivity".
It surprised me. (I tend to be an observer of people, even myself.)
As soon as I said it I realized my peril.
The next question from my friend was " Oh yeah, at what cost?"
Above;
Work/Money?
Perfect? (rather than not quite)
More?( rather than less)
Approval?
I think my answer ought to be.....yes?

I will let you know how this works out.

11-15 (my insurance payment is due!^%#*)

Until one has the right relationship to their own ambition, peace and true joy remain fleeting.

My heart wants. period. That is its job. If I have one, though I have lost touch with it, it being in exile still wants, hopes,& longs. Its like a compass; if there is a magnetic field it will respond, it cant help itself.
It knows what I want.
I must need to strike up a communication link with it. Sit down for coffee or take it out on a date.
If its me why am I so far from myself?
Right now I want people to use their brains but not for a sprint rather a ultra distance race.
Can you?

Welcome, welcome boys and girls.
It is not by accident you have glanced this way... Come closer.

I only have this one question to ask. What do you want.
The answer is not the answer though.
The answer is the path, and there you'll wait or there you will follow.
If it were an ice cream flavor could you answer, would it even be smart
to not ask back just in case. "are there 3 or 31".
Don't come a-post'en until you've done at least a little thinking.

Oh, my answer, well I don't have to answer. You may just copy me and that's not good for you.