paris, another visit ..

this blog reflects an intention to speak my spiritual journeying into cyberspace ..
i have no idea what, if any, effect it has on anyone wherever ..
but that's not my business

so that the focus has been spiritual, whatever thaat means to me ..
unfortunately, i have circumscribed 'spiritual', with the result that i haven't voiced my thoughts on many issues

today i choose to circumcise that

here's why (although i imagine this will be somewhat difficult to explain) ..
historically for me, religious/spiritual/christian has been limited to 'moral' issues, and to issues directly relevant to 'the faith', mostly found in the do's and don't's of the 10 Commandments and the newer testament's proscriptions and admonitions
i was reared in a seriously 'militantlly' conservative christian church and church context, originating in the US's Bible Belt - specificaally, what is termed as 'the buckle of the bible belt'
the vision of that movement was to restrict itself specifically to evangelization and biblical instruction

issues that fell outside those narrowed boundaries were generally considered to be not our business as christians
ours was to focus on the souls of people, with a view to getting them 'saved' ..
missionary endeavours was a significant focus, both from the pulpit and from the treasury, and our little church of humble means sent missionary support across the globe - Bhutan, Africa, India, Israel, Guyana (S Am), etc. ..
in Africa alone we were responsible for helping to start-up (at my last count, some 10 yrs ago) almost 40 churches
to be real, we helped those communities with issues that concerned the church folk, like chicken farms, sewing machines, bicycles, and help constructing the church buildings
but the overriding concern was the gospel, people being saved; everything else was secondary and, to be frank, fell down the priority list

that is my context

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i recently lived in california for a year
a privilege
for it was there i was exposed to a different think, religiously; i came to see things from another angle, sort of like hanging upside-down from a tree branch to look at the world ..
much of that came out of my being with, and serving, homeless people

and what my naivete was taught is that my brand of christianity has truncated the gospel, restricting its interpretation and application far below the heights for which it is intended by the God of the gospel

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i provided that context because i believe there are others out there with a similar background, a like-context, and maybe something here will spark recognition and redirection

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i say that to say this: in days of old i would have relegated the climate-change issue to that secondary level: let others deal with it, even if it's true ( there's enough evidence out there to ratify that conservative/fundamental christians have denied the reality of global warming ); mine is to focus on the evangelization ..
today i walk a different road
i'm learning that my narrowed view of the gospel is untenable, unscriptural and unGodly ..
and i'm trying desperately to change

global warming is not anymore an issue to be debated
it is a responsibility for which i will be held accountable by the Creator of this planet
it was He that said in the beginning that humanity was responsible for the management of the good earth and its creatures, to watch over and preserve it, to work in it, to service it

it is obvious now, to all who have ears to hear, that we stand on the cusp of what could soon be an irretrievable boundary, an earth to which there may be no going back, a burned and badly scarred planet ..
it is our duty to Creator God to stand with all who recognize this and are moving to stem the bleed-out
hopefully it is not too late

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i've posted a link at the bottom of this page to a very interesting 50 or so minutes of discussion on what really is transpiring in paris
(the meat of it follows the headlines)

please make the time to view it .. all of it
it sets in context the ultimate failure of the planet's governing bodies to take this matter seriously, including, shamefully, the US who not only are a major contributor to the problem, but who refuse to be serious about rolling-back this tide of destruction

i am saddened
most likely, in my view, the Monied are again pulling strings - purse strings and puppet strings

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there is a verse somewhere in the backside of The Revelation of Jesus to John ..
“ We thank You, Lord God, the Almighty,
who is and who was,
because You have taken Your great power
and have begun to reign.
The nations were angry,
but Your wrath has come.
The time has come
for the dead to be judged
and to give the reward
to Your servants the prophets,
to the saints, and to those who fear Your name,
both small and great,
and the time has come to destroy
those who destroy the earth. "
      (Rev 11. 17,18)



the last sentence is noteworthy ..
and we are judgementworthy

(the pics are of the shoes of those who would have participated in a disallowed march in paris under the guise of the recent attacks)

the link:-
paris, climate change, Democracy Now