Pentecost +8 – Year ARomans 7:15-25aThe Message puts it: "What I don't
understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act
another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can't be trusted to
figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious
that God's command is necessary."What Paul seems to have forgotten is
that he is created in G*D's image. Do you remember G*D having times of
remorse after the flood, promising never to do that again, looking for
a reason to repent in Jeremiah 26:3, and regretful of making Saul king?
Trust and dealing with the aftermath of mistakes is a big deal for G*D,
and for us.Sometimes G*D blesses and sometimes curses. And so do we.
Sometimes blessings are rued and curses were correct. Sometimes
not.Even with all the dangers, would be assisted to move away from
language demanding external commands to the more intangible, but ever
so real, presence with one another. This will help us define and
redefine what it means to be on the winning side, always a desire for
validation and comfort? Better dealing with inconsistency and intuition
is unlikely to come from the outside, life simply turns much too
quickly. The best-intentioned command leaves much to be desired as the
world turns. It is inappropriately institutionalized. It operates from
a single perspective rather than in 3, 4, or 5-D. It is dissective
rather than vivifying.To party? To fast? Now there's a question.So what
presence (not what command) do you carry into parties? into fasts? so
you might be alive in either setting?

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Posted By Wesley White to Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue at
7/03/2008 06:47:00 AM