I live in the Kingdom of joy that others may also.

 

The greatest expression of political and moral Authority since Martin Luther King Jr? Extraordinary. Well done.

Rev. William J. Barber II America
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/20/rev-william-j-barber-ii-america-is-now-at-the-most-critical-time-between-life-and-death/

Sadly he is mistaken on the two most important things as was dr. King. He eloquently illustrates all that matters is I, what I do, what I make of my life, and then he says exactly the opposite. He is correct in the first case. And he suggests that there's a political solution and there's not for two reasons, and they're related. It's too late, and it's too late because we've never done what Jesus said which is to put our whole life into cultivating our own soul, putting it in charge of the head and flesh that otherwise wreak destruction and thereby possibly encourage others to do the same. But a wonderful article none the less.

Instead of a society resting on coercion, exploitation, and inequality, Jesus desired to found a society resting on love, service, and equality. These new principles....

Instead of a society resting on coercion, exploitation, and inequality, Jesus desired to found a society resting on love, service, and equality. These new principles.... were so much the essence of his character and of his view of life, that he lived them out spontaneously and taught them in everything that he touched in his conversations or public addresses. God is a father; men are neighbors and brothers; let them act accordingly. Let them love, and then life will be true and good. Let them seek the kingdom, and all things will follow. Under no circumstance let them suffer fellowship to be permanently disrupted. If an individual or a class was outside of fraternal relations, he set himself to heal the breach. The kingdom of God is the true human society; the ethics of Jesus taught the true social conduct which would create the true society. This would be Christ’s test for any custom, law, or institution: does it draw men together or divide them?

The fundamental virtue in the ethics of Jesus was love, because love is the society-making quality. Human life originates in love. It is love that holds together the basal human organization, the family. The...

The fundamental virtue in the ethics of Jesus was love, because love is the society-making quality. Human life originates in love. It is love that holds together the basal human organization, the family. The... physical expression of all love and friendship is the desire to get together and be together. Love creates fellowship. In the measure in which love increases in any social organism, it will hold together without coercion. If physical coercion is constantly necessary, it is proof that the social organization has not evoked the power of human affection and fraternity. Hence when Jesus prepared men for the nobler social order of the kingdom of God, he tried to energize the faculty and habits of love and to stimulate the dormant faculty of devotion to the common good. Love with Jesus was not a flickering and wayward emotion, but the highest and most steadfast energy of a will bent on creating fellowship.

Social Gospel, rauschenbusch, on the Supreme Joy.

"Our duty to the Kingdom of God [Creating it on Earth] is on a higher level than all other duties. To aid it is the supreme joy. To have failed it by our weakness, to have hampered it by our ignorance, to have resisted its prophets, to have contradicted its truths, to have denied it in time of danger, to have betrayed it for thirty pieces of silver, — this is the most poignant con- sciousness of sin. The social gospel opens our eyes to the ways in which religious men do all these things. It plunges us in a new baptism of repentance..... 

the [Kingdom of God] in the sense in which Jesus and his audiences understood it almost completely passed out of Christian thought as soon as Christianity passed from the Jewish people and found its spiritual home within the great Graeco-Roman w^orld. The historical basis for the idea....

the [Kingdom of God] in the sense in which Jesus and his audiences understood it almost completely passed out of Christian thought as soon as Christianity passed from the Jewish people and found its spiritual home within the great Graeco-Roman w^orld. The historical basis for the idea was wanting there. The phrase was taken along, just as an emigrant will carry a water-jar with him ; but the water from the well of Bethlehem evaporated and it was now used to dip water from the wells of Ephesus or from the Nile and Tiber. The Greek world cherished no such national religious hope as the prophets had ingrained in Jewish thought on the other hand it was intensely interested in the future life for the individual, and in the ascetic triumph over flesh and matter. Thus the idea which had been the centre of Christ's thought was not at all the centre of the Church's thought, and even the comprehension of his meaning was lost and overlaid. Only some remnants of it persisted in the millennial hope and in the organic conception of the Church, The historical study of our own d

Vlog. James most desperate lifelong riddle unexpectedly solved this morning? Will spend the rest of his years unpacking this.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nor2mwSmcyX8zZQJA

By his family Jesus was hated for completely withdrawing from the systems. I ache to do the same, in my better moments. Soon?

Soul is God, the kingdom, that which we can know, taught Jesus.

Soul is God, the kingdom, that which we can know, taught Jesus.

It has succeeded every time. Speaking the truth cost me everything material, and gives me infinitely more toward building the kingdom of Brotherhood on Earth. Divine.

Grants Pass Oregon

SPDF Day 15: MLK Jr, “Like anybody, I would like to have a long life.

SPDF Day 15:  MLK Jr, “Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”

vid. Lady Diver Meets Moray Eel. Friends. Family

vid. " The inventors of this could have made a fortune. Instead, they're making kids happy.

http://www.upworthy.com/the-inventors-of-this-could-have-made-a-fortune-instead-theyre-making-kids-happy?c=ufb1

nd Sometimes, once in a blue moon, it strikes me that I can't bear even one more second of the needless suffering we impose on the world. Yup, it just occurred to me - blue moon I guess :-) . And in the very next instant, I know that I'll always embrace every spec of that pain that I can - it is the Entire Fuel for the Heart, Soul - the Creator's Kingdom - Heaven - the Soul in Solidarity Serving. The Agony and the Ecstasy are NEVER Separate. Never.

nd Sometimes, once in a blue moon, it strikes me that I can't bear even one more second of the needless suffering we impose on the world.  Yup, it just occurred to me - blue moon I guess  :-)  .  And in the very next instant, I know that I'll always embrace every spec of that pain that I can - it is the Entire Fuel for the Heart, Soul - the Creator's Kingdom - Heaven - the Soul in Solidarity Serving.  The Agony and the Ecstasy are NEVER Separate. Never.

***** I believe, I hope, that what Jesus was about, what Jesus was onto was infinitely more radical then what I see any group understanding or attempting ... Read on

I believe, I hope, that what Jesus was about, what Jesus was onto was infinitely more radical then what I see any group understanding or attempting. no discredit or disrespect to them.

For certain I believe that something infinitely more radical is needed, and is possible. I believed this since I was a child, tho only acted on it radically in the last 13 years or so.

Everyday I become more convinced that the kingdom of infinite joy regardless of external circumstance is right before everyone of us, because I live it, primarily, & I study it secondarily.

I also am becoming more convinced everyday that our addictive pursuit of pleasure will distract practically everyone of us, blind practically everyone of us, to that heaven until it is too late and all of creation is destroyed.

Believing that, maybe you can imagine how driven I am.

I see that the individual and collective solution is right in front of us. And I see defenses honed over thousands of years that dwarf any defenses that the Pentagon could dream of in power.

I detest what we've made of this world and will be happy to be gone from it. But I love all of creation and find infinite joy in trying to make things right.

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'My Father’s Kingdom: Where the Last are put First. His Family? Those who do so.' Loving

'My Father’s Kingdom: Where the Last  are put First.  His Family?   Those who do so.' Loving

"And the Last shall be First...." THAT'S HOW IT IS, IN LOVING, THE KINGDOM, LOVING, RIGHT??? ARE YOU OF THE KINGDOM? US, IS NOT. NOT, DID I SAY NOT? TRAVON MARTIN.' Loving

"And the Last shall be First...."  THAT'S HOW IT IS, IN LOVING, THE KINGDOM, LOVING, RIGHT???  ARE YOU OF THE KINGDOM?  US, IS NOT.  NOT.  DID I SAY NOT?  TRAYVON MARTIN.'  Loving

nd 'Loving IS Faith in the Unseeable (but totally experienceable) Heaven

nd 'Loving IS Faith in the Unseeable (but totally experienceable) Heaven

nd Loving is, IS, the Creator. When we are Loving, Universal Family, as some have been to me, we ARE THE CREATOR, OF the Creator in our midst, in the World.' Loving.

nd Loving is, IS, the Creator.  When we are Loving, Universal Family, as some have been to me, we ARE THE CREATOR, OF the Creator in our midst, in the World.'  Loving.