There’s a saying that Actions speak louder than Words, and I’m not sure if it’s always true, but I bring it up because I think it is often relevant – even when discussing words. Perhaps especially when discussing words. Right now, I want to talk about words – about words, and actions, and which words …
Continue reading Actions Speak Louder than Words and Commands Mean More than Parables
I know this isn't art from DragonBirth, but this has been really close to me for a long time, as I've been struggling with this for a while, and since things have finally become clear to me, I've wanted to write and share it. But I don't often write non-fiction well ... so, here it …
Continue reading Unless All Wounds are Healed, All Sins Forgiven
“This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise.” Recently, I remembered these words of Jesus to the criminal who hung beside him on a cross, over and over, as a kind of hymn or refrain among the quieter moments of my thoughts. “Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom.” “This day thou …
Continue reading This Day Thou Shalt Be With Me in Paradise: A Meditation
A child looked up at the stars and prayed to the Goddess of the Stars. I felt certain that I was known, heard, watched. I didn't get everything I asked for, even when I really, really wanted it. But that did not mean no one or thing was there. That I was utterly ignored or …
Continue reading This Bright Journey: Leaving the Beaten Path Behind
The Medieval Roman Catholic Church (and the more traditional Roman Catholic Church today) taught that only so-called 'Reason' was safe. The imagination was the playground of the devil, the emotions and the passions were subject to sin, and God forbid anyone follow intuition over logic and 'reason'. Of course, they also taught that Reason was …
Continue reading The Roman Church Taught People to Believe Intellect is Superior over Emotions
“It is not that Jesus Christ said, 'Go,' but that the heathen will not be saved if we do not go. It is a subtle change that is sagacious but not spiritual. … The insinuation of putting men's needs first, success first, has entered into the very domain of evangelism and substituted the passion for …
Continue reading A Lot of ‘Evangelism’ Calls the Good News a Lie
Some people believed that God spoke to everyone. That His voice made an Inner Light in every heart, and all each person had to do was be still and quiet and listen to the Light of Truth inside themselves. Bibles and pastors and bishops and priests were unnecessary, and each person was equal, having God's …
“Surely He has borne our griefs and He has carried our sorrows. Yet we considered Him stricken, crushed by God and afflicted. He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. He was afflicted for our cure, and by His wounds we are healed.” “He bore our sins in His own body …
Continue reading A Meditation on the Cry of Immanuel: My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
“All who have this hope in Him purify themselves, as He is pure.” Perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. Fear is slavery, whether it's the fear of physical death or, far more importantly, the fear of spiritual death. Fear has nothing to do with the One who Knows, the …
Continue reading The Good Shepherd Never Punishes the Lost Sheep
“And this bread is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.” “And he shall be called Immanuel, that is, God with us.” 'Many of his disciples when they heard this said, “This is a hard teaching; who can accept it?”' What is the hard teaching? I ask everyone who reads …
Continue reading God With Us – The Hard Teaching and the Great Heresy
Enthralled By Love 