Minister of Interior

14” X 14” acrylic and ink

 

notes for an Advent sermon

It is better to love justice and to be compassionate and be called a blaspheming unbeliever than to be a mean bigot who claims to be a friend of Jesus.

Our creator is in heaven and heaven is within us.

The conviction that a scripture carries truth with it, that meaning itself comes from the Beyond, as it is driven to the Beyond, extraterrestrial as well as in and out of the heart of the earth, Is not contingent upon a literal reading. When we get hung up on whether a story is about something that “really happened “ we are unable to pay attention to what it’s saying. That’s why Augustine read Genesis as an allegory. And the gospels are full of clues that they are parables.

When we went to the moon the moon came to us. When Mankind made the Giant Leap we discovered that the moon is not the vacation resort we had dreamed of. If moon maidens greeted Neil and Buzz the astronauts managed to keep quiet about it. What happens on the moon doesn’t stay on the moon, and wasn’t the moon once part of earth?

It is still to be determined how and when the moon will be colonized and turned into a giant solar battery to power earth technology.

That’s not something I have to worry about today.

I realize I’ve been “writing”, rather than praying.  I want to write a prayer. I want to pray a writing.

Santo Bustelo, give me strength!

We direct our curses and prayers to a god we imagine is some kind of General Manager to whom we can ultimately appeal to bend the laws of nature, or maybe we posit some universal principle that rewards and punishes, so good eventually wins in the long run.

We find in our own wisdom literature that thousands of years ago there were people who harbored some doubts about God’s concern for us but who managed to behave as if they could judge between right and wrong, true and false. The earth tribe possesses rational consciousness, moral conscientiousness, and an imagination that is boundless in its manifestations of love, and driven by the bondage-busting liberation movement of human/divine creative power and the infinite curiosity we possess.

Santa Sativa, illuminate us!

What petitions do you bring to the eternally creative unconscious?

What questions and needs for guidance and confidence and strength?

God give me strength

God give me wisdom

God never let me abandon love

God help me

and God Bless America!

You’ve given America so much. 

We demand more!

It’s getting so dark God. 

God it is dark. Please bring the sun back. The sun rose at 7 today. Yesterday it rose at 659. These late sunrises have been happening for six months. When the sun turns away from us like this we get depressed and forget it always returns to bless us with lots of energy to power our devices, and then we celebrate by stuffing ourselves with the bread of idleness until we vomit, a celebration of consumption that drives an economy that fails to feed the hungry. We display manger scenes with fake refugees and do I even need to point out the hypocrisy?

The only way this earth tribe can become more intelligent is when we collectively create/evolve/imagine intelligence and build compassionate structures and the only way creative intelligent love can liberate the earth tribe is through our not so random acts of our own divine nature, a nature that has no nature at all, only boundless liberating bliss.

Bliss Out, Baby!

and God Bliss Earth.