Jesusian

It is fashionable these days to not believe in Jesus, to not believe in God, and definitely to not believe in Jesus as God personified. So I am out of step with fashion. It is more safe to be a Buddhist or a Taoist. One is spared the anti-God rant. It is also easy to stand on one’s hind legs and howl and yowl at the heavens. Piece of cake. Been there, done that. Or sit quietly in existential despair while one sucks what teats of satisfaction that can be found. Mocking is also “in,” as well as yelling that if one believes in God, one is anti-science. Poppycock. I am one of the most avid scientists I know.

I’ve been re-re-reading the Book of John and find Jesus to be the most powerful example of intellect and heart that I know (and I have read all the “greats”). He is hilarious in some of the things he does and says. He cannot abide pomposity, pops those balloons of righteous indignation as soon as they appear. He leaves the self-absorbed pompous sputtering or with gaping silence. He loves and hangs out with the street folk of good heart, the so-called common folk, while talking at the highest and deepest intellectual and spiritual level with the educated seeker.

I love this Dude. God, our Source, embodying to ask our forgiveness for being such a self-absorbed ruler in earlier times and now coming as a servant to set the new tone. Plus, he speaks in parables, my favorite kind of fare, the cosmic food I love to ingest. I don’t mind if you don’t think this way or experience Life this way. You will do as you will. As for me, I know that we are the Source embodying, that this is the greatest gift that can be bestowed, and that Jesus blazed the trail as the Role Model, the Example.