"We've made a hideous Fetish of Jesus. He'd be utterly disgusted." SL

"We've made a hideous Fetish of Jesus.  He'd be utterly disgusted."  SL

[From a note to a new friend]

Jesus was not central to himself, and said, "Love as I have Loved." Well if He
was not central to His life, nor is He to be central to ours. Love, and more
specifically, Love of the neediest among us was central to His
life, and is to be central to the life of those that follow His Teaching.

Your Loving brother, Start

ps: "If you love me you will do greater works than these." CJ
We've made a fetish of Jesus. He would be horrified. We are ALL born to be
Sons and Daughters of Our Father, and Jesus died to have us Join Him in being one,
just one.

"The Authority Jesus appealed to? YOU; YOUR Conscience, Humanity, Universal Love." SL

"The Authority Jesus appealed to?  YOU; YOUR Conscience, Humanity, Universal Love - 

'The Kingdom of Our Father is within you - be like a child, and enter.' 

Me too."  SL

The don't intend to DEEPLY offend me with, "Do you profess Jesus as your Savior?"

"Are you Saved?"
"Do you profess Jesus as your Savior?" is DEEPLY, DEEPLY, DEEPLY offensive to me. 
THEY DON'T INTEND OT OFFEND ME when so often the visitors ask. 
But to me it is repugnant, vile, hideous subversion of my beloved Jesus' Teachings.

They NEVER ask (NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER....)

*  Do you love your brother as yourself?
*  Do you do unto the poor as you would have them do unto you?
*  Do you lay down your life for the sheep?
*  Do you pick up your cross every day?
*  Do you devote your life to the least of these?
*  Do you love Our Father with your whole heart, soul, mind?
*  Do you lead the children rightly?
*  Etc.
*  Etc.
*  Etc.

Romans 13:8 "Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law."

Romans 13:8
"Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another;
for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law."

:-) I practically NEVER allow myself any words in the Bible besides those of Jesus.
Other than Jesus words I find the Bible a toxic minefield of hate, evil, error....
This is one of only 3 verses I can think of that I allow myself as an exception - and
also 1 Corr. 13, "Without Love, it is NOTHING...," and
I John Ch2: "Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to live just
like Jesus lived." It was about 9 years ago, I was sitting in a cheap cafe in blighted ...
Chester PA where I was a school counselor that I opened the New
Testament to Romans 13:8 - it was Love at first sight.

Caleb, thanks for sharing.

Your brother in Our Father (Universal Love),

Start

St. ArchBishop Oscar Romero - Murdered Yesterday. 'The Violence of Love."

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Archbishop Oscar Romero Quotes

Archbishop Oscar Romero

"We have never preached violence, except the violence of love,which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we musteach do to ourselves, to overcome our selfishness and such cruelinequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violenceof the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love,of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons intosickles for work.

"Those committed to the poor must share the same fate as the poor.

"A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true church of Jesus Christ. A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good, so that they are secured in their sinful state, betrays the gospel's call. (1/22/78).

"When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises (8/6/78).

"The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the nights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history (8/6/79).

"I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador."

"Aspire not to have more but to be more.

"Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

"Defence of human rights, equality, and freedom… is a matter of policy… rooted in the gospel.

"The poor have shown the church the true way to go. A church that does not speak out from the side of the poor is not the true church of Jesus.

"The gospel is the great defender and proclaimer of all the great fundamental rights of the person. The fundamental right to…… Food & Water, Shelter; Protection; Medicine; Education; Work; Rest; Freedom; Respect; Dignity; Fullness of Life.

"The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword; ... it is the violence of love.

"Let my blood be a seed of freedom.

"I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective
end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root
of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion
of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All
this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest
flows naturally. September 23, 1979.

"I'm deeply impressed by that moment when Christ stands alone
before the world figured in Pilate. The truth is left alone, his
own followers have been afraid. Truth is fearfully daring, and
only heroes can follow the truth. So much so that Peter, who has
said he will die if need be, flees like a coward and Christ
stands alone.

"Let's not be afraid to be left alone if it's for the sake of the
truth. Let's be afraid to be demagogs, coveting the people's sham
flattery. If we don't tell them the truth, we commit the worst
sin: betraying the truth and betraying the people. Christ would
rather be left alone, but able to say before the world figured in
Pilate: Everyone who hears my voice belongs to the truth. Feast
of Christ the King, 1979.

"Would that the many bloodstained hands in our land were lifted
up to the Lord with horror of their stain to pray that he might
cleanse them. But let those who, thanks to God, have clean
hands -- the children, the sick, the suffering -- lift up their
innocent and suffering hands to the Lord like the people of
Israel in Egypt. The Lord will have pity and will say, as he did
to Moses in Egypt, "I have heard my people's cry of wailing. It
is the prayer that God cannot fail to hear. September 18, 1977

"The church is calling to sanity, to understanding, to love. It
does not believe in violent solutions. The church believes in
only one violence, that of Christ, who was nailed to the cross.
That is how today's gospel reading shows him, taking upon himself
all the violence of hatred and misunderstanding, so that we
humans might forgive one another, love one another, feel
ourselves brothers and sisters. November 20, 1977.

"We have never preached violence, except the violence of love,
which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must
each do to ourselves, to overcome our selfishness and such cruel
inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence
of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love,
of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons into
sickles for work. November 27, 1977

"Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father
Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who
have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are
listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps
already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness. December
18, 1977

"A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of
the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good so that they
become entrenched in their sinful state, betrays the gospel's
call. A preaching that does not discomfit sinners but lulls them
in their sin leaves Zebulun and Naphtali in the shadow of death.

"A preaching that awakens, a preaching that enlightens -- as when
a light turned on awakens and of course annoys a sleeper -- that
is the preaching of Christ, calling, "wake up! Be converted!"
this is the church's authentic preaching. Naturally, such
preaching must meet conflict, must spoil what is miscalled
prestige, must disturb, must be persecuted. It cannot get along
with the powers of darkness and sin. January 22, 1978

"And so, brothers and sisters, I repeat again what I have said
here so often, addressing by radio those who perhaps have caused
so many injustices and acts of violence, those who have brought
tears to so many homes, those who have stained themselves with
the blood of so many murders, those who have hands soiled with
tortures, those who have calloused their consciences, who are
unmoved to see under their boots a person abased, suffering,
perhaps ready to die. To all of them I say: no matter your
crimes. They are ugly and horrible, and you have abased the
highest dignity of a human person, but God calls you and forgives
you. And here perhaps arises the aversion of those who feel they
are laborers from the first hour. How can I be in heaven with
those criminals? Brothers and sisters, in heaven there are no
criminals. The greatest criminal, once he has repented of his
sins, is now a child of God. September 24, 1978

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"The most promising idea on earth: Our Father. We're certainly Dead, without it." CJ via SL

"The most promising idea on earth:  Our Father.
We're certainly Dead, without it."  CJ via SL

Ellen's house, a Godsend to my work; becoming even more of a Miracle?

When I started this work in DC, years ago now, I didn't expect to survive
more than a few months.  I was, and remain ENTIRELY, AND TOTALLY unwilling
to divert energy, ANY OF MY ENERGY, from the neediest of Our Family, to my
own survival.  But here I am.  Thomas was the first to reach out, years ago,
with sandwiches he placed on the bench where I'd sleep sitting up all night
on vigil for Darfur.  There they'd be when I awoke.  :-|

Then he, with Ellen's approval, brought me in to their base of operations so there would
be a roof over my work for Darfur.

Even after Thomas' passing I've been blessed by Ellen,
and another benefactor of the house, with a bed
and a public space where I can sleep and work when not on my daily
shifts at the White House vigil.  I'll do my work living in the streets when
that is what Our Father wants, but my productivity certainly has been
infinitely higher in the space I've had in Ellen's house.

BUT MAYBE NOW MY PRODUCTIVITY WAS JUST PROVIDED A MASSIVE ADDED
BOOST!!!!  At least for the moment I've just been afforded a more secluded
room in the house.  The house is busy, circumstances are such that
there are frequent interruptions so far in this room... but in the last week I've had two 5 hour
or so uninterrupted blocks of solitude for my work.  MY STRESS LEVEL HAS
GONE DOWN BY HALF, IT SEEMS.  This room supports a 2nd computer, so
I just purchased one on CraigsList, a 2004 $85 job, but it works.  With
it and the laptop Ellen and the other benefactor provided me, by keeping both
loaded down with my video processing, etc, MAJOR BOTTLENECKS
ON MY YOUTUBE WORK HAVE BEEN LIFTED!  I feel like one feels when they've
maybe had emphysema, didn't know they had it, but were just put on
OXYGEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Life!

I never count on something like this lasting, not for an hour, not for a second. 
That is Our Father's business, not mine.  But oh my Goodness, the two glimpses of
solitude, space and technical capacity I've had since this recent room change ARE OF AN EVEN
GREATER GOD-SEND.  Maybe.  We'll see.

SL dying in prison - Starts this Monday in Federal Court?

I am not worried or concerned.  Our Father's Will be done.  But you few
I've copied, I feel I owe such a "heads up," as this.

The several premonitions I've had like this before have come to pass -
For 5 years or so now it has seemed inevitable to me that I will die
in prison.  This doesn't trouble me.  It has never been a nightmare for
me, literally; never a cold sweat; never an elevated pulse (hmmmm, except
the adrenalin from an expected conflict).  I suspect it will come to pass in time,
but maybe it is just an acute clarity of how society's ways and mine are anti-matter
and matter - mutually annihilating.  Some of you have personally encountered
how stubborn I can be on what seems Important.  :-)  :-(  Standing as close
to the Truth as I do now will likely get me killed, one way, or another - exposure,
starvation, prison, murder....  He certainly does NOT want me by natural causes
just yet, having saved me from two near, might have been fatal near-car hit's last week -
neither my fault.  What am I rambling about?  This essay grasps the macro-physics-
reality that seems to have me (thank God) and society (thanks to unopposed
Satan / Evil / dEvil), in its grasp:  

THE MEANING OF THIS HOUR, ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL
The single most sacred essay I've ever encountered.

Monday, I've been subpoenad to appear in FEDERAL court.  No, nothing I've done,
yet.  As a witness.  Late fall, early winter, as I ever sooooooooooooo
vvvvvaaggguuueeeellllllyyyyyyyy recall, upon returning about 11pm from
my evening shift in the Park, in front of Ellen's house was a police cruiser(s),
group of officers, and someone being arrested (I'm pretty sure, I never
looked to see, as I recall).  There was a fence slat missing that I'd not
noticed missing before and a police woman, seeing me approach the house
asked if I lived there.  I said I did - I respect, and cooperate with the
police, IF and WHEN they operate within their job.  ('The only group in this
country I have any respect for is our men and women in uniform - they are
the only group that puts their life on the line for others,' I say to folks
every day at the Park.  Gandhi felt similarly.)

She explained that the person they were arresting had pulled the slat off
to attack them with, and that he (?) had done similar things ever so many
times, and that it would be a great kindness to HIM if I "witnessed" that
the slat was from the fence and it had repair worth that I set at $100 or
so.   The vaguest of recollections.  I DISTINCTLY recall the impression that
my "witnessing" that night  WAS ABSOLUTELY THE LAST I'D HEAR OF THIS!
Last week the subpoena arrived.

I gave them my name, the only name I'm known by in DC - Start Loving.
On prior arrests - Pentagon, White House... I've thought to give my old
name as well, but this time, it absolutely never even occurred to me -
I was doing her, the officer, and the person being arrested a "favor!"

Will I be jailed for giving the Feds a "false" name tomorrow?  What DID I witness
to?  I gave it almost no thought at the time, so I CERTAINLY don't recall now!
I'm required to bring ID.  I HAVE NO ID, refusing to have such under Bush.
What if what I can testify to now is in opposition to what I testified to
then?  I'LL NOT LIE.  I'll be sworn to "tell the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, so help me God."  AND THIS I'LL DO.  This is where I expect
they'll get me, cuz I AM IN CONTEMPT OF OUR IN-HUMANE "LEGAL" SYSTEM.
I'LL NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT REFER TO SOME OVER-PRIVILEGED WHITE GUY,
OR WHATEVER, AS "YOUR HONOR."  ETC, ETC, ETC.

"Contempt of Court" - is this how the end will start for me?  Cuz, I AM TOTALLY in
contempt of a system that incarcerates 2 million poor folks in this country.
Gandhi was asked - 'What do you think if Western Civilization?'  He
responded - 'I think it would be a good idea.'  He wasn't kidding.  Neither
am I.  Neither was Heschel (above).

Re: Fwd: This really touched me

[by way of Angel 1st class, Beverly.  No kidding.]   Psalm 55:22 - you  really need to read this. 'Friends are God's way of taking care of us.' This was written by a Metro Denver Hospice Physician: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die - I barely managed to coast into a gas station, glad only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow truck. It wouldn't even turn over. Before I could make the call, I saw a woman walking out of the quickie mart building, and it looked like she slipped on some ice and fell into a gas pump, so I got out to see if she was okay When I got there, it looked more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen; she was a young woman who looked really haggard with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as I helped her up, and I picked it up to give it to her. It was a nickel. At that moment, everything came into focus for me: the crying woman, the ancient Suburban crammed full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (1 in a car seat), and the gas pump reading $4...95. I asked her if she was okay and if she needed help, and she just kept saying 'I don't want my kids to see me crying,' so we stood on the other side of the pump from her car. She said she was driving to  California and that things were very hard for her right now. So I asked, 'And you were praying?' That made her back away from me a little, but I assured her I was not a crazy person and said, 'He heard you, and He sent me.' I took out my card and swiped it through the card reader on the pump so she could fill up her car completely, and while it was fueling, walked to the next door McDonald's and bought 2 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a big cup of coffee. She gave the food to the kids in the car, who attacked it like wolves, and we stood by the pump eating fries and talking a little. She told me her name, and that she lived in  Kansas City Her boyfriend left 2 months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet. She knew she wouldn't have money to pay rent Jan. 1, and finally in desperation had finally called her parents, with whom she had not spoken in about 5 years. They lived in  California and said she could come live with them and try to get on her feet there. So she packed up everything she owned in the car. She told the kids they were going to  California for Christmas, but not that they were going to live there. I gave her my gloves, a little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road. As I was walking over to my car, she said, 'So, are you like an angel or something?' This definitely made me cry. I said, 'Sweetie, at this time of year angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses regular people.' It was so incredible to be a part of someone else's miracle. And of course, you guessed it, when I got in my car it started right away and got me home with no problem. I'll put it in the shop tomorrow to check, but I suspect the mechanic won't find anything wrong. Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings... Psalms 55:22 'Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.' My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless, especially for the months left in 2009and I picked you. Please pass this to four people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me. Here is the prayer: 'Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and email buddies reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Whe re there is self doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace, In Jesus' precious name. And most important, remind them that 1.  there is only one Immeidate Family - YOURS, and 2. that the only reason you have us here is to be your Angels, not for the Lesser of these, but FOR THE LEAST OF THESE. Amen.' I know I picked more than four -- you can, too. When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, 'Jesus, could You please get that for me.'

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Start's Horror at "Jesus Saved us." Then, what of those 3 Crosses on your head???

[note: I speak centrally of the Church below, because that is the subject
of this piece, and NOT because the Church is negatively or positively part of my life
now - it is not - irrelevant.  It could become central again in my opposition
to what it does - if Our Parent ever calls me to that.  Think of me as
Dr. S below and you'll understand, if you like.]

Start's Horror at "Jesus Saved us." Then, what of those 3 Crosses on your
head???

Huh?  Start, you've got His cross on your forehead.  You profess that Jesus,
along with your biological father Saved YOU!  So what could possibly
be your "Horror at 'Jesus Saved us!?!?!?!?!?!?!'"  Well, if I can help
you see, this is how:

Dr. Albert Schweitzer CERTAINLY is one of the "Christians" that Jesus
will recognize.  Well, the following is an imaginary story.  Imagine
that Dr. Schweitzer, in the farthest recesses of Africa discovered a
massive outbreak of disease that was due to unclean water.  He
determined that boiling the water would end the massive outbreak
of a horrible disease.  So he did so - he set up a massive cauldron
of water, and a fire in the center of the village - day in and day out
fired the cauldron, boiled hundreds of gallons of water, provided it
to the townsfolk, and after only days, the horrible outbreak was
ended, and Dr. Schweitzer left saying, "Do this in memory of me."
His tireless efforts there had all but killed him.

Weeks later someone from the village traveled many, many days
to find Dr. Schweitzer and said, "Dr. Schweitzer, it is horrible, as soon
as you left the village, the disease came back just as strong as before!"
"Well, did you continue what I told you to do?"  "Yes," the villager
insisted!

Upon returning hurriedly to the village the first thing Dr. Schweitzer
saw was a huge alter with a statue of his figure above it.  Next he
saw a tiny cauldron of water on the alter, ringed with rare flowers,
with people singing near by, with a fire underneath.
And then to his horror he saw mothers returning from the fetid pond
with their jars filled with water for the houses.

"What are you doing!?!?!" he asked the townsfolk? "We are doing
everything you said, in memory of you, who "saved us."   "Including,"
they said, "we've established a special day, Sunday.  On Sunday we
pray about what you did, all that boiling, we drink boiled water during
a one hour gathering on Sunday morning, and we pray about boiling
water other days too, but of course, you are the special one from
God, so we cannot possibly do what you did, boil water every day.
We are sinners, you are pure....  But because you did it to Save
us, and because we profess that, we are Saved!"

They thought that Albert did it FOR them so they would not have to!
They thought that what he told them was "mystical ritual," when
what he taught them was LIFESAVING PRACTICE!!!!!

Dr. S learned that it wasn't quite as benign as that.  Turns out that
there was a Holy Man in the village, a truly nice man, the smartest
of them all.  As soon as Dr. S left the holy man said to the
people, "Dr. S, Saved us!  He is the special one, from God. 
We need to build him an altar.  We need
to worship him; we need to profess him our Savior, and we will
LIVE!  Otherwise we will die.  Now, go and get your drinking water
from the pond."  "WHAT?" shrieked the townsfolks?!  "Have you no
faith in Dr. S" the Holy Man shouted to shame them?  "Have faith! If
you believe in him, and profess him as your savior you will be saved!!!"

Turns out that A.  The Holy Man never grasped the truth of the fetid
water, so he could only imagine that it was some mysticism.  But there
is more.  2.  His livelihood depended on the Sacred tax he was paid
on the pond water; 3.  The village was part of a Kingdom funded by the
Sacred Tax on the water and all the villagers would be killed if they
stopped drinking the water and paying the tax.  And, 4. THE PEOPLE DIDN'T
REALLY WANT TO BELIEVE IN THE NEED TO BOIL WATER BECAUSE THAT
WOULD REQUIRE A MASSIVE CHANGE IN HOW THEY LIVED!!! Nicea.  Alexander.
Selfishness - THE GREAT DECEIVER - DENIAL AND DELUSION.

The Holy Man was Truly a nice man.  The Holy Man was truly a mass
killer.  The Holy Organization was made up of Truly nice folks.  They
were responsible for massive carnage.  The people were Truly nice
folks.  Their clinical Denial murdered their children.

If Dr. S became frantically opposed to their actions, would this be
hate, or harshness on his part?  He saw what the rest could
and WOULD NOT SEE!!!  HE WAS MORALLY BOUND TO ACT ON HIS VISION,
OUT OF LOVE.

The Jesus that Saves me did so at the point that, after decades of study,
prayer, trial and error, I TOTALLY REJECTED the notion that what Jesus
taught has ANYTHING to do with ritual, codes, professions, Church.... 
NO, IT DOES NOT, NO MORE THAN DOES BOILING FETID WATER. 
Boil, or die.  Love the least of these as Immediate Family, or die.  Simple.

Jesus showed us how to Live, how to escape Death:

*  "Do unto the LEAST (not lesser) of these ALL that you would
have them do unto you."
*  "Love as I have Loved."
*  "Lay down your life for the least (not lesser) of these."
'Love your enemy, and the stranger, EXACTLY AS YOU LOVE YOUR
IMMEDIATE FAMILY - NO DOUBLE STANDARDS - NO HYPOCRISY.'
*  "If you Love me you will do greater works than these."
*  'Pick up your cross and carry it, always - central, committed,
dedication to the needy.'  If your life is not carrying your cross,
you are not following me.

Albert Schweitzer, as with EVERY great healer, brother, friend, Family
member, DOES NOT WANT TO BE WORSHIPED, BUT RATHER, WANTS
TO BE JOINED IN HIS PRACTICE, IN HIS WAY OF BEING, HIS WAY OF
LIVING, HIS WAY OF SERVING!!!!

YES, Dr. S SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS.  JESUS TOO!  BUT NOT
INSTEAD OF OTHERS DOING THE SAME, BUT RATHER SO THAT OTHERS
WOULD DO THE SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In recent decades my study included Teresa of Calcutta and Francis
of Assisi.  In two books, one on each, written by different authors,
decades apart roughly the same comment was made in the introduction:
"She/he simply took Jesus at His word."  Me too.

"The greatest obstacle to someone being a Christian is people that
preach the Gospel but do not practice it." Teresa

"I think that a Christian should resemble Christ."  Teresa.

Christian (def):  Christlike

"We must preach the Gospel all day long, and occasionally use words
to do so."  Francis of Assisi

NONE of these speaks centrally of the "profession" of what Jesus did
for us - BUT RATHER TO THE PRACTICE, TO WHAT WE MUST DO!!!!!!!!

And Jesus -
"Do unto the LEAST (not lesser) of these ALL that you would
have them do unto you."
"Love as I have Loved."
"Lay down your life for the least (not lesser) of these."
'Love your enemy, and the stranger, EXACTLY AS YOU LOVE YOUR
IMMEDIATE FAMILY - NO DOUBLE STANDARDS - NO HYPOCRISY.'
"If you Love me you will do greater works than these."

"Do this in memory of me."  This saying I only "got" a few years ago.
Did He mean - do some ceremony?  NO, NEVER centrally. 
He meant - GIVE YOUR BODY, GIVE YOUR BLOOD FOR THE LEAST OF THESE,
IN MEMORY OF ME.  AGAIN. AGAIN. AGAIN. AGAIN....

How did Start live totally away from Jesus for most of his adulthood?
Because the Church, and our "Christian" culture drove him away from
Jesus words - telling him that THEY - Church and Culture - not Jesus
words, words that are sooooooooooo clear, would tell him the
Truth.  Well, when Start tried everything under the sun to find Life
AWAY FROM JESUS WORDS, he found only Death, the exact same Death he found
and finds in the Church, part of his Family.  And THEY DON'T SEE IT AS DEATH.  AND
NEITHER DOES THE ALCOHOLIC, CRACK ADDICT.  NO, rather in each of these
cases they insist that what Start sees as Death IS LIFE!  Have some
wine, have some crack, have some Church!  In the last 10 years he has thrown
off the deadly errors of the Church, for the Truths of Jesus words,
"Love (Live) as I have Loved (Lived)." In doing so Start has found what he can only
describe as TOTAL Joy, Life, Love, Peace-of-Heart that surpasses all understanding,
Truth AND PERSECUTIONS, EXACTLY as Jesus taught.

Start is NOT hung up in semantics.  Start IS TOTALLY HUNG UP THAT THERE
IS A TRUTH, A WAY OF LIFE, A WAY OF LIVING THAT CAN SAVE US!!!! 

"Love as I have Loved," is that Truth. THAT TRUTH IS NOT -
*  I Loved as I did SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO; or,
* I AM THE SON OF GOD, SO YOU CAN TRY BUY YOU WILL FAIL AT
LOVING AS I HAVE LOVED.  NO.  THAT IS NOT
WHAT HE SAID, AND HE DIDN'T DECEIVE US - HE DIDN'T TELL US TO DO
WHAT WE WERE INCAPABLE OF.  "If you Love me, you will do greater
works than these."  WE ARE CAPABLE OF, AND CALLED BY HIM TO
GO BEYOND WHAT HE GAVE US - NOT SIT IN SELF DEPRECATING "WORSHIP!"

"Whoever claims to abide in Jesus AUGHT TO LIVE JUST LIKE JESUS LIVED."
2 John, Ch. 2

'You said Lord Lord, but I don't know you.'  This is the church
today - He does not know it, or know today's Christians.  They
do NOT Live as though the Poor WERE THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY.  AND THEY
DEMAND THAT THIS IS NOT WHAT JESUS DEMANDED OF THEM, and they they are
but poor sinners,  incapable of doing so!!!!!!!!!!!  B*ll Sh*t.

Do I care that folks talk of Jesus dying for their sins?  No,  I care that they
speak of it centrally, as though that is EVEN SLIGHTLY CENTRAL.  Does Jesus have
some ego problem?  Did Albert Schwetzer?  Schweitzer didn't care if they
knew that he was the one that saved them.  HE JUST WANTED THEM SAVED!
SAME WITH JESUS, ONLY MORE SO!  AND BOTH KNEW THAT THEY COULD NOT,
COULD NOT, COULD NOT, COULD NOT... SAVE THEM.  THEY COULD ONLY
SHOW THEM (US) HOW TO SAVE THEMSELVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although it doesn't prove the point, I am sure it is about the point - the
parable of the two sons - one of whom "says" all the right words - 'yes
father I will do what you want!'   But he does NOT LIVE THE PRACTICE.
And the other son who says "NO!" But he DOES the Life's practice.

Jesus teachings are FULL of examples of the Saved -
Peace Makers...
Poor...
Meek...
Those who have done the works of Love...

NOT JESUS BUT THE CHURCH is the one that MAKES FIRST AND FOREMOST
PROFESSION OF JESUS AS SAVIOR, AND THE LIKE.

NO, I stand with Jesus.

If with the above I am unclear, I have little hope of explaining. Sorry.

Your brother,

Start

ps:  I'm described as Harsh.  IS A FIREFIGHTER HARSH WHEN HE SCREAMS AT
FOLKS TO GET OUT OF A BURNING BUILDING?  IF HE FORCEFULLY GRABS THEM
AND YANKS THEM TO SAFETY?  Wouldn't he be living "Dead" if he did not?

Not the Rethugs but the Lip-service Liberal citizens are destroying US

continuing a dialog with cc on this vid
Pr. Obama (1) - The Peoples Interview on YouTube.

[MLK Jr reached EXACTLY the views expressed below, 50 years ago.  Hmmmm, yes,
he expressed it a bit differently.]

ENTROPY WINS BY DEFAULT!!!!!
[[[TODAYS]]] RETHUGS ARE THE PARTY OF ENTROPY!!!! 
[McCain's mom disowns today's Rethugs.]

We have no excuse not to know this.

IF THE LEFT DOES NOT ACT - THE RETHUGS WIN, WIN, WIN BY DEFAULT.

!!!!! AND !!!!! THE RETHUGS ( / TEA PISSERS) ACT, AND WE DO NOT!!!!!!!

THE BLOOD IS ON OUR HANDS FOLKS. ALL OF IT.

THE RETHUGS OF TODAY ARE DUMB BEASTS - CLINICALLY; ACTUALLY; IN FACT - I'M BEING
HONEST AND ACTUAL, NOT SLANDERING OR UNKIND. They ARE my brothers and sisters.
NOTHING BUT DEATH IS TO BE EXPECTED OF THEM.

BUT WHAT OF US - WHAT OF THE LEFT?

WE ARE DESTROYING AMERICA WITH OUR INACTION.

ENTROPY WINS BY DEFAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Devote at barackobma.com now, or kiss America goodbye.

It may be too late already. 

But maybe not.

[For those of you like Gandhi and me that have a profound regard for the views
of Jesus note the email to K below.]

Barack's not
quitting. Me
either.

SL

------------- email to K, a sheroic NE Lawyer serving the oppressed -----------------

RE: Hey K - when you have a second

Don't let me distract you from your fires.

>>> CLICK HERE.  TRUST ME <<<

Regarding my replies this morning on your two long emails:

Was Jesus just being cute, or mean, or symbolic, or un-brotherly...
when on MANY occasions he DID NOT ENGAGE IN DIALOG / NEGOTIATIONS,
responding instead with silence, departure or HARSH REBUKE????

NO!!!!  It was the proper, the only constructive response to "Folly,"
"Blindness,"  "Evil,"  "Hypocrisy,"  "Satanic Spirit...."  Pls recall the MANY
occasions that Silence or Massively Harsh Words or Departure / Ignoring
were his response. OFTEN!!!!!!

Those that worship, not Our Father, but the OTHER father ARE OUR
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, but to treat them as though they were of Our
Father is to DO THEM INJUSTICE, AND HARM.   LIKE GIVING CRACK,
OR ALCOHOL TO AN ADDICT, OR A CIGARETTE LIGHTER TO AN INFANT.

Children that have selected Satan (thinking it is Our Father) FEED
ON GENUINE ATTENTION, AND THEY USE
DECEPTION TO BLEED OUR FATHER'S CHILDREN TO DEATH.
"They will kill you and think that they do Our Father's will."

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER do I try to convince you.  The Truth is between
you and Our Father.  HOWEVER, when something is CLEAR to me
I'll speak accordingly.

Love you.

Start

ps:  My conviction also comes from lifelong practice and study of
just this issue, as a psychologist, enterprise leader, change agent,
brother....

4" snow, 4 degree wind ccchhhhiiiiillllll

WISH YOU WERE HERE!!!



Uh, I mean here!  :-)

Thomas died a week ago Saturday. A rare and truly Great, truly Divine Spirit.   We desperately
needed that Spirit, a gift from Our Father, and now it is gone, and forgotten.  God forgive
us.  http://prop1.org/thomas.htm IF YOU'VE NEVER READ HIS Biblical Wandering in the Desert,
as God is my witness, you've missed a chapter of the Gospels.  Your brother,  Start

The Wise built on Rock, NOT SAND. The LEFT is Sand. The RIGHT's the Devil. Hmmm.

I, Start, remain a fool, but, hmmm, I'm learning, sooooooo slowly.

Einstein was a man.  Jesus was a man.  Einstein was our guru to date of macro physics.
Jesus is our Einstein to date of how to Live, individually, and collectively.  His teaching?
"Love as I have loved... laying down my life for the least of these Our Family."

Jesus said, "Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be
like a wise man who built his house on rock.. the rains fell, the flood came, the
wind blew... But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone
who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who
built his house on sand."  Matthew

This scripture is RINGING through my head this morning after the agony of last night's
clarity: "SL here. Friends, I am quite shattered"
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2010/01/sl-here-friends-i-am-quite-shattered.html

The Wise built on Rock, NOT SAND.  The Left is Sand. The Right's the Devil.  Hmmm.

ROCK: Pr. Obama is rock.  Much of the Dem. Senate and House Leadership is rock.  Much of
BarackObama.com, the roots associated with that is rock.  Rock is the good, simple folk
that do what is right, no matter what.  THEY ARE DOERS, GIVERS, NOT TALKERS, TAKERS. 

SAND: The Left.  THE LEFT ARE TALKERS, and Takers.

RAIN, FLOOD, WINDS:  The Right.  THE RIGHT ARE TAKERS.

I just don't know what hope there is for the mass of Humanity.  I've been trying to leave
that in Our Father's hands (the Unseen Wisdom we can feel, but not control), but I haven't
helped myself from focusing on Saving EVERYONE, NOW!

It is time to refine my focus.  Screw the Left  - they are worse than worthless - they waste
our time, they KILL our time.  I must respect the DEADLINESS of the Right.  I must Focus A. on being
Good, Incarnating Good, Inspiring Good; B. WORK WITH THE GOOD - COME WHAT MAY.

I stand with Pr. Obama - come what may.  I stand with BarackObama.com as long as they
remain Faithful. I pray that Good people and I find each other and unite as an ever growing
force for Good - come what may.  I will fight on, hopefully, a tiny bit wiser, smarter.

Where will this lead?  How far?  How fast?  God, the great unseen wisdom, knows.

Screw the Left.

Start

If the Apostles had "gotten it," Jesus would have lived on.

Jesus, as would any brother, would do whatever it took to
bring Our Father, Universal Love, to earth in our Hearts
that His Family, all of us, might live in the Kingdom
of Universal Love on earth.  The Apostles
weren't "getting it."  They all scattered and abandoned Him
when the soldiers came.  He knew they weren't "getting
it."  "Peter, do you Love me (agape)?"  "Like we were
brothers (filios)," Peter dumbly answered. 
Again, toward the end, "Get thee behind
me Satan," to Peter who he Loved.  "How much longer must
I be among you," to all the apostles, in utter frustration
with them, toward the end.

Had they been "getting it," Jesus could have used less
drastic measures than walking into certain death.  But they
weren't so He had to pull out the big gun - allowing Their
Heartlessness, Their Blindness, Their Deafness, Their
lack of Universal Love to kill him THAT THESE ERRORS,
THESE SINS MIGHT BECOME VISIBLE - THAT THEY MIGHT
REPENT, that is, HEAL THEMSELVES!  Which, reportedly,
some of them did.

Universal Love DIES for those who are suffering.  That's
what it does. Period.  When that Dying can BEST take place
over decades, it does so.  When what is required is going
out in a blaze of glory, the Crucifixion, it does so.

HOW MANY MORE SAINTS WILL YOU AND I CAUSE TO  DIE,
BEFORE WE WAKE UP  AND "GET IT," UNIVERSAL LOVE?

"Know Our Father, No Satan. No Our Father, Know Satan." SL

"Know Our Father (Universal Love),
No Satan (empty Selfishness). 
No Our Father (Universal Love),
Know Satan (empty Selfishness)."  SL

To Those True Friends that would Save Start L. from his Errors, Ignorance, Limiits....

[NOTE: A God-send of a friend was sent to me in Decemember this year.

Our relationship has been a great blessing to me, and to this friend as well I think. But as has so often been the case in Start's life, this promising relationship may well be headed toward being a massive frustration and drain on my friend. Hence this note, that may be of benefit to others as well. This is prompted
by my encounter of today with this blessed friend.]

Dear Friends,

I am writing this out of Love and Compassion for you. That is, I
don't need you to read the following for me, and I suspect it is
likely to become a rather long email. I provide it because I feel
it may empower you in managing our relationship, and reduce what otherwise
might be mountains of unproductive frustration and unhappiness
for you. I need no reply. I don't need for you to read any further.
I simply need to make some things AVAILABLE for you, my Friend,
for wherever these things they may lead.

The circle of Leaders in whose company I SL have learned to consider
myself includes Pr. Obama, Gandhi, King, Jesus.... Ridiculous, yes?
I know. Hilarius! But Our Father and this circle of Mentors agree with me.
:-) . Seriously. It is not by accident that I've attained this level - my entire life's
dedication has been toward this end, because as one of you and I
shared today, "Leadership is Everything." There is no hope for
my suffering Family of 6.8 billion and the 10's of billions that are
born in the future, unless there comes about a spark(s) of Transformative
Leadership that causes a total Revolution of the Spirit - Globally,
that is, a spark that brings about the Revolution that our
beloved Jesus was Dying to unleash, and so too the ML King's and Gandhi's
of the world afterward; and we've all but irreversibly concluded
our global journey in exactly the opposite direction through this
moment in history.

Now, what is the nature of this desperate Leadership need? Is it incremental?
Is it small steps? Is it something that can take place over decades -
centuries? Is it normal? Is it more of what we've seen, only better?
The nature of the leadership task to Save Humanity -
physically and spiritually, now in 2009, a world that is within months
of being beyond redemption in Life Support (Plan B 4.0) is instantaneous,
Totally Transformative Leadership that within months, NOT decades
or centuries brings Our Father's Kingdom to Earth, Universal "Family,"
on a Global Scale - EXACTLY the Miracle Jesus Died for, and that so far
He has TOTALLY and completely FAILED to bring to fruition.

On an infinitely smaller, but not insignificant scale, this has been
my life's work - Saving the Lives (livelihoods) of thousands of folks
in high-tech industry from all but certain doom - serial major and minor
Leadership Miracles that defied all odds and all prevailing wisdom.
And they were achieved in no other way than Spiritual Transformation.

The last company I ran went from certain downfall to increase in
market value 20 fold in the 3 years I was leading the hundreds
of people involved. This is not atypical of my Leadership impact
throughout my 28 year professional career. Serial human Miracles
against impossible odds, leveraging the Great Unseen Force -
Human Goodness, Universal Love, the Truths of Jesus, God some
call it - to achieve results considered unimaginable.

And ALWAYS I've been viewed as weird, strange, stubborn, hard
headed, Messianic, wrong, misguided, outsider.... "If at first the idea [person] is not
absurd, it has no hope." Albert Einstein. The hallmark of insanity is
attempting to achieve different results by doing things the same old way.

The Truths of Jesus I've been working to grasp, be grasped by,
to understand and to master since I was young, and explicitly and
concertedly these last 12 years. For 5 of those years I understandably
thought that what calls itself the "Christian" "Church," whatever
denominations, was where I could go for help in gaining the mastery
I needed to be able to "Save." What instead I found was a near
perfect slaughterhouse for the Spirit - all denominations. The
Scribes, Pharisees, the Hypocrites of Jesus' day have simply re-branded
their murder as "Christianity," totally perverted and corrupted
His Truths, and have been keeping Him DEAD for the last 1900 years.
I accuse FEW of conscious malice; nor did Jesus - Hypocrisy is the
great Murderer - Lying to oneself first, and thereby murdering
Truth, the Holy Spirit, Universal Love - the only hope for Humanity.

I DESPERATELY wish there were those who could teach me the
fundamentals of Jesus' Truth, what "Church" should be, because everything
in my life has convinced me that Jesus was our Einstein of "Saving" ourselves. But
there are not. And in their stead are the "blind guides," "ravening
wolves," armies of "Christian" hypocrites - general merchants of death
that have turned my Father's House, the Church, into a den of thieves,
a Slaughterhouse of the Truth, of Life.

With 1-2 billion "Christians"
on earth and now earth is MUCH MORE HELLISH than before there were
such a large % of "Christians," there are only two conclusions possible -

A. THAT WE ARE NOT CHRISTIAN, MORE THAN 1 IN A MILLION OF US THAT CALL
OURSELVES SUCH.
or,

B. That being TRUE "Christian" is of NO EARTHLY IMPORT OR IMPACT!!!! Jesus'
teachings were nothing more than a Mystical obstacle course/
game of chance that determines whether you go to Hell or Heaven after you
die! There is NO WAY, if there are billions of Christians, in TRUTH, that Jesus
Truths are other than earthly weak nonsense IF WE ARE TRULY CHRISTIANS!

"B" is Utter horrible, insane, murderous nonsense. We are no more
"Christian" than the Jews of Jesus' day; and worse, cuz we've
built up monstrous immunity to His Truth these last 1900 years.
"I like your Christ. I do NOT like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."
Gandhi. "I think that to be a Christian you should resemble Jesus."
Teresa of Calcutta. Start agrees. And we don't. So, we AREN'T.

I am totally, 100% dedicated to becoming the embodiment of what Jesus
died to give me, and to share it with as many of my beloved fellow
humans as I can, thereby Saving as many as I can. He TRULY knew
that Miracles were possible, NECESSARY, and He taught and showed us
the way. I'm in. Not to Talk, not to Pretend, but TO DO, OR DIE.

In principle I, Start, am open to discuss anything! I am NOT God and
therefore do NOT have perfect knowledge of, well, anything. And
in the realm of things that our western society deems worthy of
discussion - sports, entertainment, stuff - not only would I of necessity
be open to discussion - I'd have to sit with my mouth shut - cuz
I know NOTHING OF THESE THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!! Literally. But in
the realm of TRANSFORMATIVE, HIGH STAKES Leadership, and the
realm of Christ Jesus - well, tragically, I've found during my lifetime
such a murderous void of knowledge and expertise available, I've
been forced to attempt, and to succeed at becoming a world
authority, if no one but me and Our Father knows that I have become.

So, I know EVERYTHING on these 2 subjects? :-( In 20 lifetimes I
would not. But in the same way that today there are recognized,
and unrecognized world authorities in Physics, yet they will be
deemed ignorant and inept centuries from now; your brother
Start is for today, a world authority on Leadership and the
Truths of Christ Jesus, today.

It offends me not in the least anyone that does not recognize this,
my professed Authority in Leadership and Jesus' Truth. It breaks my heart, in the
same way it broke the heart of Dr. Jos. Lister that in 1870 he knew
that unclean scalpels were the cause of massive slaughter, but
for another 30 years of carnage he FAILED IN LEADING ANYONE to change
their behavior! But as Lister, and Jesus before me, I KNOW the
Truth sufficiently in the areas of Transformative Leadership and
Jesus' Truth that no physical price or pressure will be able to cause me to
deviate from attempting to bring them to Earth - and Our Father's
Kingdom thereby - nothing more, nothing less, NOTHING ELSE.

Now presumably, during those 30 years for Lister, there were folks
that took genuine compassion on Lister, and attempted to get
him to "see" the error of his knowledge, or methods. And at
the time, ALL CONVENTIONAL WISDOM were with those trying
to "Save" Lister from his folly, to "educate" him, to "correct" him.
But he WOULD NOT BE SAVED, not were it to "cost" him everything,
and neither will Start be "Saved." :-)

Right around 1900 Our Father, Universal Love, The Way Things Are...
took Mercy on Jos. Lister, and Humanity. Our Father arranged for
the Queen of England to require surgery, and made it known to her
the theories of Jos. Lister. She demanded he come and that his
ideas be followed to the letter. She survived and recovered. In
a brief time then the world of surgery was Transformed - Globally.

It took 30 years, but Jos. Lister became a Transformative Leader
of the world, as few have before or since. And for every Jos.
Lister that Our Father finally helped, there were 1000's just as
Enlightened, just as possessed by Truth that Our Father did NOT
allow to see the Truth of their promise, nor for the world to
recognize it. And that is Our Father's way. And so it is for Jesus,
so far.

Start is alone. With decades of expensive training, and decades
of Leadership expertise and skills, he sits, mostly alone, in front of the White
House, ignored, disrespected, irrelevant, scorned, largely abandoned.
If you pick up your cross - YOU WILL BE CRUCIFIED. Hmmmm. We
today live as though Jesus stated or implied some time limit on that;
that He thoughtlessly left off - "Oh, that is, Until the world is crawling
with false prophets, re-branded scribes and parisee "Christians" calling out
in my name - THEN you won't be Crucified any more." Huh?

HE GAVE US NO SUCH TIME LIMIT - except the implied - WHEN I
RETURN IN THE HEARTS OF ALL SURVIVING HUMANITY - THAT IS,
WHEN OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM HAS COME TO EARTH, Who thinks
that has happened? Who thinks Jesus would call America a "Christian"
Nation? Who thinks there are more than 1 in 100,000 "Christians"
that Jesus would recognize? Start does NOT think so.

For those that worry that Start is alone, failing, wasting his talents
and life - you need not worry. If Start does not exist in Heaven,
he wishes not to be told, cuz that is how EVERY second feels to him.
:-) And if there are those that persist
in trying to "Save" Start from the errors of his ways - get ready for
some massive frustration, and eventual impatience or unavailability.
Start doesn't have time for the basics, debate, or arguing the "basic"
Truths. He has time to be left alone, or..........

Start YEARNS for the day when Our Father, Universal Love, brings
alongside him others WITH THE SAME VISION OF TRUTH, JESUS'
TRUTH, GANDHI'S TRUTH, MLK'S TRUTH - ALL THE SAME TRUTH, who
are on Fire with that Truth, or YEARNING to be so. WHO HAVE FAITH
IN THAT TRUTH - WHO BELIEVE IT IS SUPPOSED TO TRANSFORM, TO
"SAVE" THE ENTIRE WORLD - BRINGING THE KINGDOM. For them, and
them alone Start has all the time our Father Gives him to FACE
the Truth, Learn the Truth, Master the Truth, be MASTERED BY
the Truth - and to work to Save the World, or die in the attempt.

With much Love for you all,

Start

ps: SO, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO DEBATE OR ARGUE THE BASICS, OR STUDY THE
"TRUTHS" THAT I'VE COME TO SEE AS HORRIBLE LIES FROM THE "CHURCH."
And I don't have time to discuss, or be schooled in Leadership. My every waking
second is dedicated to Refining, Practicing, Perfecting and Proliferating
what I know.

"Salvation IS Being Family TO Our Father's NEEDIEST Children." SL inspired by the Gospels

"Salvation IS Being Family TO
Our Father's NEEDIEST Family;
there is NO other Salvation." 
SL inspired by the Gospels

"Harsh." Of 370 Gospel Categorizations, "Harsh" is the most frequent.

For 8 days now or so I've been studying Jesus' words, and
categorizing His words, verse by verse , that I may come to more
deeply, MUCH more deeply grasp, learn and BE GRASPED
by what He died to tell  us.  We will not make it unless we
begin to stand on his shoulders.  Time's up for us.

Of 370 Gospel Categorizations I found myself creating
(Universal Love, Family, Our Father, Scribe....), "Harsh"
is the most frequent along with Our Father, Universal Love, and
One Immediate Family-No Double Standards.

This guy Jesus found it essential to be Harsh, in such a Cruel,
Deadly, Suffering, "Harsh," world; that has gotten much,
much, much more evil since then; including our new, powerful
immunity to Him and the Truths He died to show us.

Now, "Harsh" is not to be confused with Anger, or
Hostility, both of which He unequivocally labeled - Deadly
Errors (Sins).

One out of every seven verses of his words, out of 340
Matt. verses of Jesus in all, I had to label HARSH.

Jesus - He was ENTIRELY about re-conceiving Family, IN THIS LIFE. ENTIRELY.

Duh - you say?  :-)  Yes, I AM slow.  But my head is spinning with
the implications, grasping it, letting it grasp me, checking to see
if this is a correct understanding....  Huge.

I continue in more than a week's immersion in Jesus words,  as
I do every Christ-mass week or so now, in these last few days
specifically in Matthew, just for practical reasons.  Line by line, over
and over.

I am Stunned by the new appreciation that has exploded
within me this time - how CENTRAL is His notion, His Vision,
His Belief that THE VITAL DISTINCTION among us IN THIS LIFE  is which of
two Families we belong to - His Father's or, by whatever name,
Satan's, Greeds, Lusts, Selfinessess's.  That EVERYTHING, Every
Hope depends on 1. we as individuals bringing to TOP OF MIND
an ACUTE AWARENESS ALWAYS OF WHAT PRIMARY FAMILY WE ARE TRULY
IN - That of the Givers or the Takers (including bio-fam as PRIMARY
affiliation, instead of Givers/Father's), Our Father's and Satan's
respectively.  And, 2. that what being Saved means, what being
Converted means is Moving IN THE HEART and BODY from the Family of
the Takers to the Family of the Givers; and in doing so we
create or increase the opportunity of attracting others to
Convert to His Family.  THIS IS HUGE FOR ME.  HUGE.  It is what
has been going on in me for a decade or more, but to more clearly
see it, that is a massive gift.  And it can aid me in His Work.

It is only Start that didn't "get this?"  "Who is my mother, who
are my brothers," is NOT just a really important aside.  It is the
whole mission for Jesus to A. make the distinction of 2 Families
CLEAR (I came to divide), B. Elevate Our Father's Family - the
Kingdom; and C. Get us about Saving ourselves and Others
by joining the currently minute Family of Givers, Our Father's
Family.

I have much more growing to do in these coming days in this
new clarity.

If it is Our Father's will that you do so, I sure wouldn't mind
if you scanned my Journey from time to time
here:  http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/

XXXXXXXXXXX

SL

The ENTIRE point of the Gospels / Jesus life: One Father, we're ALL ONE FAMILY, NO DOUBLE STANDARDS, GET ON WITH IT.

The ENTIRE point of the Gospels / Jesus life: 

One Father, we're ALL ONE FAMILY,
NO DOUBLE STANDARDS,, EVER, GET ON WITH IT.

We killed Jesus for telling us this.  We hated Him for it.
And for 1900 years we've been killing ourselves to
make anything and everything else BESIDE THIS
the point of His teachings.  And now it is almost too
late for us to get it right. 

It is up to me.  It is up to YOU now.  We are the last chance.

CJ - I GIVE YOU TWO COMMANDMENTS:

1.  Devote your life entirely to the will of Our One Father

2.  Devote your life entirely to the Least of These in
     Our One global Family - ESPECIALLY the poor,
     ESPECIALLY the enemy, ESPECIALLY the foreigner.

There is NOTHING BESIDES THIS in Jesus' Teachings.
Everything else was embellishment, clarification,
emphasis and support.

This is the Law and the Prophets.

Embracing THIS, THAT WE ARE ALL IMMEDIATE FAMILY,
THAT WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS...

THIS ALONE IS SALVATION -
A. PERSONAL SALVATION from a Joyless, Meaningless Life,
B. COLLECTIVE SALVATION from Global Civilization Collapse.

THERE IS NO OTHER SALVATION.  EVER.  PERIOD.

GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JOYFUL NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

START