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6.17.2007

"Start, you love [everyone] so deeply," the Sister observed.

I testify:
  1. Think of the person you most love in the world.
  2. Feel how much that love means to you.
  3. Each other person you learn to love that much will multiply your Joy / Love / Fulness by almost that much.
Unleashing "Lusting" is the solution to Greed / Mammon / Selfishness / Stuff / Superiority / Systems - Institutions / Pleasure / Hell.

Unleashing "Loving" is the solution to Life / Love / Truth / Soul / Solidarity / Serving / Joy / Heaven.

WWOFHUD: WHAT WOULD OUR FATHER HAVE US DO?

Jesus did not ask what "Jesus" would do. Although I think we should!

Jesus asked
"What would Our Father have us do?"
EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE IS ENCAPSULATED IN THIS POST AND THE ASSOCIATED LINKS ABOVE.

WHEN THIS PRAYER, PRAYED THIS WAY IS THE CENTER OF MY LIFE I AM ON THE PATH.

JESUS' PRAYER IS PERFECT.

"GIVE EVERYTHING AND FREE YOUR SPIRIT." Start Loving

Well, this is how it is.

For the first third of my life I took and almost never gave. It was Hell. Drowning in pleasure, starving for joy.

In the last half of my life I have given everything, as best I have known how, to others. Pleasure has been at an ever accelerating decrease. JOY ABOUNDS. PEACE ABOUNDS. HEAVEN.


"GIVE EVERYTHING AND
FREE YOUR SPIRIT."

Start Loving

Man is an intelligence
in servitude to his organs.

For YOU it will be LUSTING or LOVING

For me too of course.

A switch is on OR off.

At any instant a PC is being used for Word OR Excel.

A piece of steel is a shovel OR a pitchfork.

For YOU it will be LUSTING or LOVING

"Start, having an impact?" AS MUCH AS I CAN.

What can make a father work harder, suffer more, risk more than Love for his child?

Love is the greatest taskmaster.

The question I most hear from the rare person that stops to talk as I march all day at the Sudan Embassy in DC is, "Are you having an impact?"

THE PRIMARY QUESTION
IN THE FACE OF EMERGENCY
IS NEVER -
"ARE YOU HAVING AN IMPACT?"
AS A SECONDARY QUESTION FOR
GUIDANCE / TARGETING THIS QUES. CAN HELP.

THE PRIMARY QUESTION
IN THE FACE OF EMERGENCY IS -
"IS THIS YOUR BEST CHANCE
TO ALLEVIATE THE EMERGENCY?"

WHAT ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF?

SIN is ERROR. NOTHING LESS!

What do you mean by "nothing less" Start?

"Less" than "error" are - Guilt, "I know I should," I'll go to Hell if I don't..., it is Bad....

What?!?!!?!? These are LESS THAN "Error?!?!?!?"

Yes. I'll show you with an example that applies to me, but if you want you can imagine one that applies to you:

My biological father, who I worship(ed) as a man of great knowledge, wisdom, character and toughness was my driving teacher as a teen. He taught me to drive.

"KEEP BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL AT ALL TIMES," he commanded! Well, when he was in the car with me I sulkingly and cowardly obeyed. BUT, OH BOY, WHEN HE WAS NOT WITH ME, ONE HAND IS WHAT I TYPICALLY USED; EASIER, MORE RELAXED, MORE COOL!!!! I FELT GUILTY! I KNEW I SHOULD! I KNEW I WAS BEING BAD! But all these I could tolerate!

Then one dark, gray, rainy afternoon I found myself on a cattle-chute like, under construction stretch of highway. ERROR! Both hands went to the wheel!!!

I WAS UNWILLING TO PAY THE PRICE
OF WHAT THEN I COULD SEE WAS
ERROR - VIOLATING THE
GOOD WISDOM IMPARTED
BY MY FATHER.

!!!!!!!NO DOUBLE STANDARDS. EVER!!!!!!

Probably the entire contents of this site, everything I've learned, everything I believe Jesus and the other "Greats" learned and taught can be reduced to this:

NO DOUBLE STANDARDS. EVER.

Do unto others ALL
that you would have them do unto you

Love your brother as yourself

Love your enemy

As you do unto the least of these
MY FAMILY, you do unto me

ONE FATHER. EVERYONE IS
"IMMEDIATE FAMILY."
GET ON WITH IT.

UBUNTU:

An ancient African word meaning
"humanity to others";
and
"I AM WHAT I AM
BECAUSE OF WHO WE ALL ARE".

"A TIME TO KILL." BEHOLD SALVATION. "WE"

A Time to Kill (1996)

More recently I have written: LOVE is COURAGE is CONNECTION is TRUTH. (Please scan this post and then return here.)

See this movie. When you do you will see a cataclysmic scene toward the end where the afore mentioned Post is achieved / illustrated like a thunder clap. Brilliant. Blindingly divine. In the blink of an eye a group of people are transported before our eyes from Hell to Heaven. Salvation, what it is, how it happens, what it means all there to see in a the universe of five seconds or less.

Email me if what I am pointing you to is not clear. I'll explain what I am attempting to share.

"Start, I'm thinking you are 'Biblically crazy' "

This quote, above, from a nationally recognized journalist that is deeply disturbed / shaken / troubled / moved by my stand at the Sudan Embassy.

"Start, I'm thinking you are
'Biblically crazy' "

"LOVING" IS THE "SOLUTION" FOR THE HEART


Breathing is the solution
for the lungs.

Eating is the solution
for the stomach.

"LOVING" IS THE "SOLUTION"
FOR THE HEART
Jesus was dying to teach us simply this.

"LUSTING" IS THE "SOLUTION" FOR THE FLESH

Breathing is the solution
for the lungs.

Eating is the solution
for the stomach.

"LUSTING" IS THE "SOLUTION"
FOR THE FLESH
The Hell Jesus died to "Save" us from.

KNOWLEDGE HAS BECOME A NARCOTIC

In June one Sunday was Embassy "Open House" for the larger Embassies like Greece, Ireland....

The sidewalks were crowded with gawkers. My march with huge signs was virtually "invisible" to the walkers or line-standers just inches from me. One lady, obviously quite "educated" did notice me as one might notice a bush, and commented to her companion:

"Oh yes, Darfur. Horrible. I'm reading a book on it." It was evident from her comment that this "reading a book on it" would be the end of her engagement with Darfur. She would be fulfilled in every way with this act (non-act).

It should, of course, be the reverse.

Knowledge should be responsibility,
the spur to action.

But some terrible perversion has happened.
Now, Knowledge is License,
Exoneration, Dispensation.
I Know, therefore I have Acted.

Now we waste away, strung out on
books, radio and TV "news,"
OPIATE of the people.

The "Prodigal" father does NOT go after his son.

Ok, imagine, God forbid, that a world-wide plague of unimaginable viciousness is raging and ravaging the world. You are an unknown, uncredentialed researcher and have just developed a vaccination / cure. Do you feel superior? YOU FEEL OBLIGATED.

I feel obligated.

Jesus felt obligated. Yet, the Prodigal Father did not chase after his son. Jesus did not chase after the Rich Young Man.

Jesus can not have been careless in these points. Clearly he taught that we are to become the cure and to make it available.

BUT WE ARE NOT TO
CHASE AFTER THE PATIENTS,
AS THIS WILL PROLONG
THE PERIOD OF TIME
IT TAKES FOR THEM TO
"RECOGNIZE" AND SEEK
THE "CURE."

My biological father, a brilliant "cure" in his own right, knew and practiced this excruciating self-restraint. I am being forced by "failure" to try to learn and practice this wisdom.

What are you living for? It is your bottom line. Happy?

You are, you ARE living for SOMETHING(S). Right? Right.

Probably, so far it is some combination of:
  • Safety
  • Family "expectations"
  • "Love"
  • Pleasure / comfort....

What did Jesus "Live" for?

  • The least of these his "family"
  • You
  • Me
  • Heaven on earth

You and Jesus are
both Dying for something.
Are you happy with your choice?
Jesus was.

LOVE IS MEASURED BY HOW MUCH YOU HAVE LEFT

LOVE IS MEASURED
BY HOW MUCH
YOU HAVE LEFT

Any questions?

"Life is as good as the good that you spend it on." Start Loving

Hmmm. An almost perfect synopsis of all that I've learned:

"Life is as good as the good that you spend it on." Start Loving

I know of no great life in history or fiction that is in contridiction to this. Do you?

FLESH PEDDLING

You know, part of me very much does not like facing such realities as:

FLESH PEDDLING IS CENTRAL TO OUR MAINSTREAM ROLES WITHIN THIS CULTURE. WE SELL OUR CHILDREN INTO BONDAGE "FOR THEIR OWN GOOD."

But, it is the truth. God Save us.

Life is a process. Peace, a "state" is Death & Illusion

A rock has peace. Is that what we want?

'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' Jesus[Jesus] came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. [Jesus] came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others." Teresa of Calcutta

"Our Father ... Deliver us [ALL to PeaceMAKING]

I think this may be it!

Our Father...
Lead us not to "ME,"
But Deliver us [ALL to Militant PeaceMAKING]

Semantics? Wordsmithing?

We've got to get this right.
Global Salviation is at stake.

Massive Western Fetish for Health / Pulse is Sin

"Nothing is so tempting as evil in the guise of virtue," Dr. Martin Luther King.

Life, our greats throughout history are the opposite! We in our finest moments are the opposite! Not pulse!!! Not flesh!!! "WE!" From my Soul in Solidarity Serving!

Only Militant PeaceMAKING can eliminate Hate

Hmm. Dr. King was incorrect in saying, "Only love [can eliminate hate.]" It is not that easy. Maybe Dr. King meant Militant Loving, but we need to be specific. I'm trying to learn the words that are less likely to enable the HYPOCRISY that we are so tenacious in pursuing.

Only Militant PeaceMAKING can eliminate hate.

Only PeaceMAKING is Peace

'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' Jesus

[Jesus] came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. [Jesus] came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others." Teresa of Calcutta

Heaven is PeaceMAKING

'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' Jesus

[Jesus] came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. [Jesus] came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others." Teresa of Calcutta

"Right to Life" is usually a sin against Our Father - Spirit

Was Jesus focus "Pulse?"

Jesus focus was "Life," "Spirit!"

PEACEMAKERS MUST MAKE PEACEMAKERS

PeaceMakers make Peace, right? WRONG!!!!!!!!

PeaceMAKERS make PEACEMAKERS!!!! Think of:

  • Gandhi
  • King
  • Jesus
  • Teresa....

Note: Moneymakers do not make money! They build organizations or take other ACTION and money is the RESULT.

MONEY IS A RESULT. MoneyMAKING is the ACTION!

PEACE IS A RESULT. PeaceMAKING is the ACTION!

HYPOCRISY. Almost ALL OF US, all the time?

HYPOCRISY. This word has has little use for me in the last 30 years. It just has not registered, relative to myself, or relative to the being of others.

HYPOCRISY meant very much to me in my late teens! What happened??!?!

I lost my Vision.

Now, as I try to recapture that vision that I had as a youngster, I begin again to see that virtually all of us are consummate HYPOCRITES!

"Our Father... Deliver us [ALL to Heaven]..."

USCCB - NAB - John 14 "12 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these..."

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us to evil." I don't think this captures what Jesus was getting at.

"Lead us not into temptation..." is OK, however "Deliver us from evil..." SAYS THE SAME THING!

We need to know where Our Father wants us to lead ourselves and others. I think this is close:

"Our Father... Deliver us [ALL to Heaven]..."

YOUR FUTURE: FOR "THE LEAST OF THESE" WHAT WOULD IT BE?

USCCB - NAB - Matthew 25 "45 He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for ONE of these least ones, you did not do for me. 46 And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." This is the whole deal of Jesus teachings. "[Everything] depends on each man's efforts and striving to make people see that life is given, not for oneself personally, but for the fulfillment of the Father's will, which alone saves from death and gives life." The Gospel in Brief.

Punishment? NO! Jesus is not about that. Sin [error] / Divorce from Our Father / Divorce from Love-Life-Truth? YES!!! Jesus died to tell us about this; about NATURAL CONSEQUENCES!

Unless you work for Doctors Without Borders or the like then probably 99.9% of the people you've ever met or heard about... we all RELIGIOUSLY VIOLATE THIS (Jesus' exhortations above.)

There are three issues in considering our return to Love / Life / Truth - Our Father:
  1. Type of Occupation: Tanning Salon, Gated Community Development, Video Games are examples of occupations that are extremely unlikely to be LARGELY for the "least of these."
  2. Clientele: We are the rich man that neglected Lazarus (Luke 16 19-31). Can you face what I could not? We are a society of Prostitutes, Pimps and Narcotic Pushers. We cannot Save ourselves or others by selling "Narcotics" (addictions to stuff, superiority, and institutions) to materially rich folks. Can we.
  3. How much Love: "It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving." Teresa of Calcutta. What we are dying for is Models of Life / Loving / Militant Brotherliness / being Christian.

QUALITY or QUANTITY of LIFE. You WILL choose.

"A [person] is not equipped to live until s/he knows what s/he would die for." ML King

"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, 20 take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 21 26 What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?" USCCB - NAB - Matthew 16

“He who is committed to. the poor must share the. same fate as the poor” ... Oscar Romero

6.10.2007

Abe Lincoln on ETHICS and CHURCH

Abraham Lincoln On Ethics
An article on Lincoln's personal code of ethics and his view of business ethics, based on an excerpt from the one-man play “Lincoln Live”
by Gene Griessman

“What does it mean to be ethical?

As far as I’m concerned, it means treating others the way you’d want to be treated.

I never joined a church because the churches of my day required you to subscribe to a particular doctrine or creed. I told a minister who was trying to recruit me that if I ever found a church that would inscribe over its altar only two requirements, I would join that church with all my heart: The first requirement would be, ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.’ The second requirement would be, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’

I reckon that anyone who keeps those two commandments will never have a problem with any legitimate code of ethics. The second great commandment is really the basis of the Golden Rule—loving your neighbor as yourself.

Being ethical means being honest. Perhaps the greatest asset was being known as Honest Abe. It was a good name, and I believe that a good name is more to be desired than great riches.

I made it a practice to be so clear that no honest man could misunderstand me and no dishonest one could successfully misrepresent me

As you know, I’m a lawyer; and, yes, there were lawyer jokes back in the 1800s. I remember a story about a preacher back in Indiana who was conducting a funeral service for a prominent lawyer. At one point in his eulogy, the minister said, “Here lies a successful lawyer and an honest man.” A woman in the audience whispered to her friend: “We need to take a peek to see if there are two bodies in the casket?”

I happen to believe that a lawyer can be honest. In fact I found that clients often had more trouble telling the truth than lawyers did.

Here’s some advice I gave young lawyers: “Resolve to be honest at all events. If, in your own judgment, you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.”

If you’re ethical, you’ll strive to be knowledgeable. In the 1800s it was common for people to talk about “living up to the light” that one had. It was an excellent way of admitting in advance that one could be mistaken because of lack of knowledge. I like that concept, and used it in my Second Inaugural Address: “With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right” is the way I said it in my second inaugural address.

But there's something more important than knowing the truth, and that’s knowing what to do with the truth. A village idiot might stumble upon the truth, tell everybody in sight, and do irreparable damage. Being wise involves knowing when to tell the truth, knowing how to tell the truth, knowing who to tell it to, and even deciding if you should tell it at all. Some truth should never be told--like when my wife Mary asked me what I thought of one of her ridiculous-looking new hats.

Being ethical doesn’t mean that you be suicidal. .

If you’re ethical, you’ll strive to use good judgment. The true rule in determining to accept or reject any thing is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost every thing…is an inseparable compound of the two so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."