Healthy Fundamentals

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Peace is not warring’s interruption, but its end.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You surround us much as the air surrounds us. We take you in as we do air. You supply what we need to breathe. I have been taking you in since before I was born.

I cannot look anywhere without seeing you. In you I find my natural habitat.

Sometimes I get caught in the illusions of the materialist world. Sometimes I am blinded by the glitter of technology and shiny things. Sometimes my ears are distracted by the background noise of our age.

Nevertheless, I know that when I focus my senses, what I perceive is you, sometimes even in the distractions. May my senses be attuned to you as I move through this day.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

"Some day there will be almost as many people reading the New Herb Bible as read the Old God Bible."

[That's probably not an accurate statement, so of course He never said it.]

D. Blog: Some Healthy Fundamentals

Hope for the future.
Compassion for the hurting.
Love for God and our companions on Earth.
Healthy skepticism toward the world’s authorities, including those who claim to speak for God. Willingness to work for a cause beyond ourselves.
Care for the vulnerable, including Earth.
A sense of humor.
An appreciation for beauty and talent.
Enjoyment of music.
An expectation of finding signs of the divine presence anywhere.
Taking time to commune with the divine.

I can subscribe to those fundamentals. Not some time-bound ideology from men who were afraid of life and change and science, but attitudes that lead to healing activities. They make me fundamentally sound.