Green Man

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

War belongs on the way-back burner, the one on the entrance to hell.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You give us the courage we need to try difficult things, to do things that must be done even when we might wish to be doing something else. You supply gentle encouragement to try new and different things that take us out of our routine and our comfort zone. Thus you expand our comfort zone and broaden our notion of what’s routine. You lead us into a fuller experience of life, provide the therapy to overcome our minor agoraphobia.

Moving outward, we often find that there are many more friends and neighbors than there are unfriendly or cold or hostile folk. They too are being empowered and led by you, so we should expect nothing less than your receptive and accommodating self when we step out in faith and courage.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“I cannot tell a lie. I killed that fig tree.”

[Check it out and you’ll find that’s not what He said about that tree.]

D. Blog: Green Man

From the book by William Anderson:

“Our remote ancestors said to their Mother Earth: ‘We are yours.’
Modern humanity has said to Nature: ‘You are mine.’
The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth so that through his mouth we may say to the universe: ‘We are one.’”

The point being that human survival depends upon getting over the notion that we are separate from nature/Earth/universe.