You are choosing to live in the Kingdom of souls, or the world have had and flesh. There's no third choice.

 You are choosing to live in the Kingdom of souls, or the world of head and flesh. There's no third choice.

The 7-year-old brought me to tears, james, I think you're a disciple of jesus. This niece, along with her aunt, and ....

 The 7-year-old brought me to tears, james, I think you're a disciple of jesus. This niece, along with her aunt, and ... my host couple's son, about the same age, came out to say hello. I was working on the vehicle. 

There was an almost never seen innocence, wonder, and awe, on the faces of the two children, and the wife of this young man that has been so good to me. Wonder and awe are the Hallmark of the still-alive soul. In all four I experience an almost never encountered presence of the divine.

Young lady, I replied, I hope you're right, and you know why I hope you're right? Because I want the joy of that, it's all I want to be. Jesus said, I tell you these words so that my joy might be fulfilled in you. And I said, Young lady, that's what I find, the more I study his teachings and try and live the way he did, the more joy I have.

How wonderful God is if God set in motion a process that spun out miracles like this. How incredibly tedious, what a horrible neurotic time waster, if instead God manages every detail. I mean, how does God decide moment to moment how many grains of sand there are to be on a particular beach? Could God really be so trite?

 

The constructs god, soul, spirit, good, evil... Are nothing more or less than tools we can use to feed our good potential and starve our evil. Ways of personifying, making more concrete, and thereby empowering our good potentialities. For the joy of it. There are few enviable people throughout history that have not used these tools with all their might. And of course those with evil inclinations use those constructs to empower and weaponize their evil proclivities.

 The constructs god, soul, spirit, good, evil... Are nothing more or less than tools we can use to feed our good potential and starve our evil. Ways of personifying, making more concrete, and thereby empowering our good potentialities. For the joy of it. There are few enviable people throughout history that have not used these tools with all their might. And of course those with evil inclinations use those constructs to empower and weaponize their evil proclivities.

Jesus said, my food is to do the will of he who sent me. Mine too, for the joy of it.

 

Angels don't start in heaven, that makes no sense. Individuals first are angels on Earth and then they move into heaven, here, and maybe later there. For the joy of it.

 Angels don't start in heaven, that makes no sense. Individuals first return to being angels on Earth, as we are all created as infants and toddlers, and then they move into heaven, here, and maybe later there. For the joy of it.

The haters haven't been shown sufficient faith in the Divine joy of loving.

 

Those that do not choose the life of Kingdom citizen in this world, why do they think they would be welcomed in some world after this one?

Those that do not choose the life of Kingdom citizen in this world, why do they think they would be welcomed in some world after this one?

That he valued the soul of others even over his own life. This distinguished Jesus from all others. Me too.

 That he valued the soul of others even over his own life. This distinguished Jesus from all others. Me too.

I was attacked today, nothing physical or dangerous. Seek ye first the kingdom of god, those are the words and ideas that played through me and I'm so glad, it was such wonderful practice... .

I was attacked today, nothing physical or dangerous. Seek ye first the kingdom of god, those are the words and ideas that played through me and I'm so glad, it was such wonderful practice...

It was no big deal, but it was so gratuitously nasty, so out of the blue, so totally unnecessary that it literally took my breath away. A fellow that I've known to be just nasty, as negative as he can possibly be toward people, on an elf user group. I had shared a post about my experiences with a wonderful pedal gear that I thought would be useful to others and comments indicated that yes it was. And this poor twisted creep, out of the blue, what James says is absolutely irrelevant to this group. His vehicle is so heavily modified, ignore everything he says. Those were not exactly the words but pretty close. What? Like people in this group are so ignorant that they can't tell my vehicle is different and modified? Irrelevant? Maybe it's a really good testing of the limits for such things as the pedal hub that I share with many of these users? Obviously.

I think this poor twisted soul was a big fish in a little pond and now is more and more irrelevant except for his nastiness.

I was okay, but I wanted to be better than okay and thank goodness, seek ye first the kingdom of god, words from the man jesus.

Well what did that mean in this situation? Do unto others all things whatsoever you would have them do unto you came to me. Like jesus, my concern was this poor twisted individual's soul, not my own irritation. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive the trespasses of others, and that reminded me that I've nothing to forgive this individual for. He didn't do anything to me. He did it to himself. And I bear him no grudge.

And I fulfilled my duty as a brother to speak the truth to him. My immediate reply was, so much nastiness, so little time. I can see from Facebook that he has since replied but of course I have no interest or time in what this poor twisted soul has to say.