Sunday, September 1, 2013

no news is good

Well, most of the time. Or it could mean that the world has ended and you didn't get the e-mail. Of course I'm the eternal optimist these days and all, but really it's just easier to let it go and keep walkin' down the road less traveled. If there is one piece of work that changed my life forever it is Scott Peck's book by that name. His writing introduced me to the 12 steps of recovery for whatever keeps you from feeling joyful. The very first sentence of that book is one that is repeated daily by most people around the globe...Life is hard. But it's harder for some than for others and anyone who is living the high life right now should really reconsider from whence they came because um..speaking as in the Bible.....Jesus healed. He wept and did miracles and sang and danced with his followers. There were several different versions of all that but you get my drift. His believers fought and betrayed him and argued about who among them would be the greatest.

And one by one they deserted him in the garden to be tortured and killed by the cool kids with big armies. I feel like one of them most of the time, knowing the gift that was given for me just because and not being grateful enough..denying it. I've done it way more than three times, truth be told. But the beauty of the whole thing is that it's okay because there's a plan. Jews don't believe he did all that three day rising back up thing and see him more as a folk hero which has crossed my mind on occasion while sitting through Sunday school at First Church in a designer dress paid for by my rich auntie. They give you just enough old testament to scare you into submission but a big old dose of the New covenant. Remember the rainbow and believe that all is well.

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