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June 16, 2020

Jesus said that there were only two commandments anyone had to obey: To love God and to love each other. And then he said that God is Love.

And then he gave the world this prayer. This prayer that exemplifies and expresses living Love. The Love of God toward us and our love toward one another.

Let me say that another way: Basically Jesus said to love Love and to love each other and to pray to Love, in Love, as Love as we not me.

Nowhere ever did he justify hate or killing or any form of violence or discrimination in his name. Ever.

What We Need Is Here

June 10, 2020

So how do we shift the pattern? Get quiet. Look all around us at the world showing us how. “And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here.”

And what is here is Love.

Today, instead of judgment, I get quiet in heart and in eye, clear. And I will listen to the Love that is here.

On Our Knees

June 3, 2020

Yesterday social media was blacked out. It was a great symbolic gesture — just as kneeling as become a symbolic gesture. But are symbolic gestures enough? They are certainly a start.

But for real transformation to happen, I believe that we must all be down on our knees both in humility and in prayer to the Love that is the only thing that can heal all our wounds.

We are living in a country where at the highest level there is no heart-centered Love-based leadership. So it is up to each of us to love even more. To get down on our knees and acknowledge our part in the problems. To get down on our knees in humility and honesty. To get down on our knees in deep conversations about change. To get down on our knees and invoke the Love that can heal. And to keep getting down on our knees in communion, solidarity, and prayer.