Many today are experiencing the fire of transformation. Why? They're coming alive in protest at the anti-nature of Christ residing in POTUS 45. They're seeing 45's racism, his lying, his bullying, his grandiosity, his admitted sexual aggression toward women, his narcissism, his harm to the Earth, his tearing down of democratic institutions/ideals, his demonizing of imigrants, his many false pretenses of goodness, his countless wrongdoings, his fomenting of violence in others. Simply said, 45 is a threat to all persons of authentic faith. The only persons of faith who cling to him with a death grip now are those persons afraid that their life-long fantasy won't come true, i.e. their dream of Jesus dropping out the sky to rule the earth exactly the way they want and to establish white supremacy. Sorry folks, it ain't going to happen. This is the end time for you and your movement. You are like a supernova, one last big blaze before you are lost and gone forever.
There are too many of us who made peace a very long time ago with the world's diversity. There are too many of us who believe that God planted many diverse forms of faith among us so we might learn and understand how it is that God loves unconditionally and meets each person each moment of the day with open arms, kindling in their lives and their spirits a passion and fire for when all the world's people will end their judgmental ways in favor of a present time that is just and fair and peaceable for all and for the Earth on whom we depend generation after generation.
As the saying goes, live simply so that others may simply live! Become one of those of fire with transformation.
Brad Shumate
Free of Encumbrance
Eugene, Oregon
USA
Luke 12:54-56 NRSV -- He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, ‘It is going to rain’; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat’; and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
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