Pondering how Jesus lived into a Narrative of Peace that had always been there, if only we could "change our minds", or "Change how we see"... "Peace" is lived into once we lay down the "dominance" way of thinking because we have finally heard the Truth: All people are God's people and All land is Holy Land... God has designed us to live in harmon: the diversity of notes played together to create a beautiful song...

Pondering the notion that the Kingdom of God is not "out there later" but right here, right now, lived into when we care for each other; when we enter a new narrative that is not about "controlling", but about Loving... that is a Hopeful message, indeed!

Pondering on the days, the moments that allowed us to see in new ways in our lives... ways that root into meekness and our need for each other... it is from this standpoint that we can begin to see and hear in new ways.... Seeing the Love of God will ignite awe and never Tyranny...

Thank GOD so many are beginning to notice that many parts of the Bible are absolutely horrifying.... Jesus brings forth a new and beautiful way of seeing that reveals the heart and will of God is not violence and control, but love, mercy, compassion, and service....

The God that we have always had, but can now begin to notice: Our God of All who's Being in the world is: Love, Compassion, Sustenance, Nourishment..... if it aint Love, it aint God... May we climb the mountain of our hearts to see past old, harmful narratives and tribal thinking and moved towards compassion and inclusion just as Jesus did....

A song of non-violence, of sacred understanding, of realizing how what we have created in this "land of make believe" needs to turn towards love ... (all our systems were once nothing...)

In this episode I discuss the "Roman Centurion" (the Roman Soldier) who is moved to compassion to take care of his servant who is sick.... Jesus notices how this Roman Soldiers Faith is rooted in the same Love, Humility, and Compassion Jesus lives into... these are ways of being not owned by one faith tradition, but are lived into for "God" is in the Loving...

Looking at how Advent begins in chaos, and how often it is our giving up old patterns of thinking and being (chaos) because we begin to realize it is not helpful or healthy that allows us to "begin" to live in new ways..... Hope.

A look into the need to root into love and shift away from analogies of war to analogies of connection, of waking up to the love and seeing our shared humanity...

A reflection on allowing the "end to come" of old ways of thinking and living to allow the new ways of seeing to bloom....