childlike ..

it recently occurred to me .. i could learn from my dog

besides, minds far greater than mine be like ..
"A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing."
(mary oliver)

his understanding of who i am, the 'mood' i'm in, what i'm about to do based on what clothes i'm putting-on, that he needs to simply hang-out till i'm ready .. those markers of his knowing me speak to a relationship i want with Jesus ..

but, that's not what this is about, although it's what this is about ..

this is about unlearning

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we live in this world, which makes demands of us

the goal of our parents/teachers is to educate us into those demands, perhaps point us in a direction that facilitates us to meet those demands ..

like career to make money to pay bills to own a house to reproduce other children on whom this world makes demands ..

and then we teach them to facilitate those demands .. and on

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smell kinda farmy to you ? ..

putting it that way, does it bring thoughts of a factory designed to output alikes ?

or a chicken farm that exists to produce as many 'chickens' as it can, of this size, this fat content, this ratio of breast to thigh to wing ..

and ........ .. if it does, how does that make you feel ?

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truth is 'we' all want to look like this or that movie star and sing like rihanna and play ball like the james hisself and make money like rihanna/james and live in a rihanna/james house

ok, so not all of us, but maybe 9 out of 10 ? .. 

why is that?

and is it cool?

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one wiseman said one time something about becoming like a child to enter heaven

in fact he said "unless .. we won't"

and that's scary

specially when you think about who said it

well, i had some things to say about that on another post i can't locate right now ..

but .. there's this

perhaps the problem with us adults is that we learned wrong

and we need to unlearn what we learned so we can relearn - and learn what we should have learned all along ..

perhaps the focus of our parents, and us as parents, is to prepare children to be a 'success' in this world, be the rihanna/james, when we should have been training them to live life to the fullest by discovering who they really are .. images of God

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we end-up dumbing down their imagination, stifling their energy, politically-correcting their honesty, telling them to head in this or that direction because there's money to be made over there ..

while all the while God just wants them, exactly as they are ..

in fact he wants us exactly as they are

we end-up teaching them out of their innocence, their natural inclination to trust, their innate ability to spot truth and pretense

so they can fit in

so they don't embarrass us

so we can hold our noses high and pull out the wallet-full-of-pics and smile and croon and be gushy-all-over

proud like ..

and the factory operates 24/7

the farm only gets better at pumping-out chickens, now with 2 breasts and 6 wings ..

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what happened to the Moses's

where are the Edmund Hillary's and the Galileo's and the daVinci's

where are the Paul's ..

and the Jesus's ..

where have all the flowers gone, after all ..

graveyards ?? ..

every one ?? ..

are there no flowers left to bloom ?

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so, perhaps it's easy for me to sit here on my computer at my rather mature age and point fingers and question motives and pretend like i'm some sagacious sage ..

while all the while i was and did those very same things

i buried my flowers

thing is, when someone like (and there ain't noone quite like) Jesus says dump the pretense and the fluff, and the waste-of-a-lifetime, and pick up that cross that belongs to you - was cut and shaped specifically to hang your body on - and come and follow me ... . . 

then i/we have a serious choice to make ..

a most sober decision ..

one that would change the core of my/your life .. .

and there it be ..

to do that i/we need childlike trust

the faith of a child

cause he did not say, leave some of it, keep the house ..

and now my/your life is in somebodyelse's hands

i/you am/are no longer in control

i no longer am in control

lt

childlike

unless you become like a little child

"anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven " ..

think about it

peace