None of us are completely present.
So don’t feel guilty.
This is the ideal, the enlightened moments that come now and then.
But we do know that when we are manipulating, changing, controlling, and fixing, we are not there yet.
The calculating mind is the opposite of the contemplative mine.
The first is thought by the system, the second by the spirit.
Richard Roher–Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
The first chapters of Genesis were not written to communicate history or science. Creation stories had an entirely different purpose in the Ancient Near East.
Source: The Real Story Behind Genesis
New Voices in Fiction, Nonfiction, Plays & Poetry
Source: James Ross Kelly | Search Results | Silver Birch Press
Paul Steven Stone–Damn Good Blog
“If you are not aware of Hillary’s stealing the nomination in primary after primary, you need to quickly disconnect from the corporate owned and controlled mainstream media, whose universal silence about the matter proves its complicity, and go online. The election fraud went far beyond what was mentioned in the DNC emails. It involved the purging of Sanders supporters from voter lists; the switching of party registrations to prevent their voting; the hacking of electronic voting machines; the elimination of voting stations within proximity of college campuses; and so much more. And it continues today, with an industry-wide blackout on any mention of election fraud, or fraud accusations against Hillary, of which there are many, or election fraud lawsuits (three currently moving through the courts) charging Hillary’s campaign and the DNC with massive election fraud.
Nor has there been any mainstream media discussion about the deviation of exit poll results in many of the Democratic primaries. In third world countries whose elections are U.N. monitored, a 2% deviation in the exit polls is a clear indication of election fraud. The exit poll deviation in states whose voting machines are considered most hackable ran from 6% to 23%.”
Lutheran Nazi-era mistakes serve as a warning today.
The Didache (pronounced /ˈdɪdəkiː/; Koine Greek: Διδαχή, Didachē “Teaching”; Modern Greek [ðiðaˈxi]) is the common name of an early Christian writing (dated by some scholars to the late first/early second century although John Robinson argues that it is first generation, dating it c. 40-60 AD). The Didache is an anonymous work that was virtually lost until a Greek manuscript of the Didache was rediscovered in 1873 by Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nicomedia in the Codex Hierosolymitanus.
The Teaching of the Lord by the Twelve Apostles to the Gentiles (or Nations).
I.
1. There are two Ways, one of Life and one of Death; but there is a great difference between the two Ways.
2. Now the Way of Life is this: First, Thou shalt love God who made thee; secondly, thy neighbor as thyself; and all things whatsoever thou wouldst not have done to thee, neither do thou to another.
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