I look forward to your uplifting messages. What used to be nice to have is nearly a requirement now. My area in northern Virginia has been included as “border” so brown people can be detained and shipped to Louisiana for being, um, brown. Pray for us.
I look forward to tomorrow, when we can symbolically join hands from coast to coast and from North to South. It's a perfectly imperfect moment when we can come together and offer resistance. We stand up not only for ourselves but for others who cannot. As we stand in our truths, we also celebrate our diversity and offer our hearts, spirited by hope. What a wonderful opportunity in a time when darkness threatens but will not have the final say!
Thank you for the message. I appreciate the quote from Galatians. I often think of this quote from Creator Tells the Good Story (Matthew) 24:12-14 in the First Nations Version:
“Because evildoers will grow strong, the love in many hearts will grow cold - but the ones who stand firm in their faith to the end will be set free and made whole. The good story about Creator’s good road will be told in truth for all the nations of this world to hear. Then the end will come.”
I think of this as a way of saying “do not let your hearts grow cold - nurture the warm flame of love no matter how much the evil tends to put out that living flame.” Of course Creator Sets Free (Jesus) is in the midst of a long cosmic discourse on collapse that belongs with his observations about the collapse of Jerusalem and Rome - which no one around him could comprehend. But also this is set in the context of a much longer and cosmic collapse. What I notice also is that the good story about Creator’s good road will be told “in truth” - rather than in the monstrous form of a racist, supremacist, ecocidal and genocidal colonial settler story.
The epistemicide that has snuffed out the Gospel - and which enables the ongoing crimes against Creation and against all of our kin in the living biosphere - that epistemicide will not stand forever. The truth will endure, and love will endure. Showing up and bringing snacks to share as long as we still have them seems like very good strategy. We walk in Creator’s good road already, no matter how much corruption flourishes for a time.
I see the publication of the First Nation’s Version of the New Testament as a step toward deconstructing the false gospels that abound, and toward sharing the Gospel as the message of salvation and liberation for all Creation.
Thank you again for the work and the love you put into these DMs for us. They mean so much.
Your support and thanks mean the world to me. 🙏
I’m sure there are MANY more who feel the same way I do.
I look forward to your uplifting messages. What used to be nice to have is nearly a requirement now. My area in northern Virginia has been included as “border” so brown people can be detained and shipped to Louisiana for being, um, brown. Pray for us.
I look forward to tomorrow, when we can symbolically join hands from coast to coast and from North to South. It's a perfectly imperfect moment when we can come together and offer resistance. We stand up not only for ourselves but for others who cannot. As we stand in our truths, we also celebrate our diversity and offer our hearts, spirited by hope. What a wonderful opportunity in a time when darkness threatens but will not have the final say!
Thank you for the message. I appreciate the quote from Galatians. I often think of this quote from Creator Tells the Good Story (Matthew) 24:12-14 in the First Nations Version:
“Because evildoers will grow strong, the love in many hearts will grow cold - but the ones who stand firm in their faith to the end will be set free and made whole. The good story about Creator’s good road will be told in truth for all the nations of this world to hear. Then the end will come.”
I think of this as a way of saying “do not let your hearts grow cold - nurture the warm flame of love no matter how much the evil tends to put out that living flame.” Of course Creator Sets Free (Jesus) is in the midst of a long cosmic discourse on collapse that belongs with his observations about the collapse of Jerusalem and Rome - which no one around him could comprehend. But also this is set in the context of a much longer and cosmic collapse. What I notice also is that the good story about Creator’s good road will be told “in truth” - rather than in the monstrous form of a racist, supremacist, ecocidal and genocidal colonial settler story.
The epistemicide that has snuffed out the Gospel - and which enables the ongoing crimes against Creation and against all of our kin in the living biosphere - that epistemicide will not stand forever. The truth will endure, and love will endure. Showing up and bringing snacks to share as long as we still have them seems like very good strategy. We walk in Creator’s good road already, no matter how much corruption flourishes for a time.
I see the publication of the First Nation’s Version of the New Testament as a step toward deconstructing the false gospels that abound, and toward sharing the Gospel as the message of salvation and liberation for all Creation.