Human Nature

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

I follow Christ. Therefore, I’m a pacifist.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Your gifts to us are so abundant that it’s pointless to try to list them. They are so luxurious as to be without price, so extravagant as to boggle the imagination. How can we begin to appreciate so “common” a thing as breathing, for instance?

We humans enjoy giving gifts to our children because we love them and want them to be happy. I’m sure that’s how it is for you, too. I take pleasure, too, when my children enjoy a gift from me. I also appreciate it when they express thanks, because that tells me they aren’t thinking only of themselves. I know some people who can’t stand to be beholden to anyone. That kind of “self-sufficiency” must get lonely. As for me, I like getting gifts. Thank you very much.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Try a hit of this joint, Thomas. It will make everything clear to you.”

[Thomas had doubts, Jesus had answers. But not this one.]

D. Blog: Human Nature

Humans are of Earth, part of nature, not separate from them. They birth us, sustain us in life, and we our physical bodies return to them in death.

We have Mother Earth and Mother Nature. In less polite language, that might mean we humans are Mother-******s.