There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).