High Ideals 2.

Maintain your high ideals.

Don't be reconstructed by pragmatists.

Don't be compromised by Conservatives.

Don't be converted by Fundamentalists.

Don't be seduced by Capitalists.

Don't be distracted from your purpose.

Because your high ideals are close to God.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:9 (NRSV)

[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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High Ideals 1.

Maintain your high ideals.

Don't let the world corrupt you.

Don't let evil threaten or tempt you.

Because it is your high ideals that God desires.

Not lip service or hypocrisy.

Not fear or complacency.

Don't let violence or deception divert you.

Cry out to God!

He will hear.

And deliver you from evil.

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The Force.

Like in the movie we are surrounded by The Force.

This is the Life Force that permeates the universe.

It is in humans and animals, in plants and trees. even in the earth itself.

But, unlike the movie, there is no dark side.

The idea of a dark side results from dualistic thinking - i.e. that everything must have an opposite  balancing equivalent.

But this is by no means true.

There are no demons, no dark powers, no devil.....

So called dark matter and dark energies are not dark but merely outside the range of our human perceptions.

They emit invisible radiation.

Dualism is like the primary school of philosophy.

It appears to be true at first but does not stand scrutiny.

So when we say "The Force be with you" we are saying to you that Life is all around you and that you are part of that Life! 

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Blessing.

May the Lord

Protect you

From the evil

That surrounds you.

May He touch

Your heart

And enlighten 

Your mind.

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Love Wins.

There is no devil.

There is no hell.

There is only the Unconditional Love of God.

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Prayer.

It is my prayer

That you 

Turn

From the devil

And all his works.

And trust in

God's

Unconditional Love.

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Gay Angels.

Gay men are Angels.

Our love is good.

And our lovers are beautiful.

Prejudice and persecution will not change that.

Our robes are washed white.

And our destination is Heaven.

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