The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

The situation that we find ourselves in is not black and white, evil and good.

We find ourselves between the devil and the deep blue sea - i.e. between evil and blindness and prejudice.

This is the evil of Satanism in our popular culture which pulls strings from behind the scenes to turn us against God and His Churches and lead us into temptation.
And the deep blue sea of blindness and prejudice in God's Churches.

Because the process of life is one of learning or enlightenment the alternative to evil on earth is not good but ignorance and darkness.

This is double trouble.

Our job is to enlighten both.
To deconstruct evil by exposing its lies and errors.
And to enlighten the Churches by shedding light on hatred and prejudice and corruption.

There is no devil, no hell.

God is goodness and mercy and love for all.


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May.

May.

And my path

is strewn

with

camellia petals.


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Wild Animals.

When walking the streets I often come across people wearing t-shirts with pictures of wild animals - tigers, leopards, panthers, wolves etc.....

Not only this but we are continually subjected to television documentaries showing animals eating each other and copulating.

This gives a false impression of nature and life.

The people who are wearing the wild animal t-shirts are showing that they consider their environment to be threatening - a jungle - and therefore need to display threatening images to survive.

This is not necessarily due to the television documentaries but everything conspires to make us compete with each other.

Jesus was gentle - meek and mild.

He was depicted as a lamb.  


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Rain.

Clouds darken

the morning sky.

And the thirsty earth

is quenched

with rain.


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Reconciled.

Some would tell us:

the right are blessed,

the left are cursed.....

But God

would show us

every time:

the right are helped,

the left

reconciled.


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The Yoke.

"Look, you serve your own interests on your fast day,
and oppress all your workers."  Isaiah 58:3c (NRSV)

"Is not this the fast I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?"  Isaiah 58:6 (NRSV)

Could it be that Isaiah was a Marxist?

He could have been talking about our corporate masters today.

Does God really desire to break every yoke?

Will He deliver us if we cry out to Him?

The ways of the world are not the ways of God.

Let God perform a miracle and deliver you from your oppressors.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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A Doorway to the Heart.

Aquarius is an air sign - it governs our concepts.

Unconditional love is a concept.

It is a doorway to the heart.

So, rather than wallowing in the shallows of mere knowledge, we should enter through the doorway of unconditional love into the holy of holies - our heart of hearts.

And learn to love.


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