there’s more than Schadenfreude happening here.
catharsis, for one thing. Don’t you love the knowing silence?
Category: spirituality
The Good News is Supposed to Be Good
And Jesus said “the time has been fulfilled. The Kingdom of God is has come near. Repent, and believe the good news.”
“Master,” they said, “what is the good news? Tell us, so that we might believe it.”
And Jesus answered them: “the time has been fulfilled. The Kingdom of God has come near. Repent, and believe the good news.”
And Jesus ministered in Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.
Until the Sea Shall Free Them
Reminds me of “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen. Excerpt:
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said “All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them”
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you’ll trust him
For he’s touched your perfect body with his mind.
Source: 365shores.tumblr.com via Christopher on Pinterest
Harrison Ford redacted, but you get the point.
This is a redacted post, based on an image or Harrison Ford that turned out to be fake. The point of it all was this:
In other words, we have to get over ourselves and all of our trinkets and baubles. They mean nothing. Get over your status, your training, your high place in the world. Then you can change it.
Who’s Coming to Dinner?
And Jesus said “Give away your power. Give away your wealth. Believe in God. Believe also in me. Believe in people. Proclaim good news to the poor and justice to the oppressed.” And they opened their homes to him: tax collectors, widows, men and women of little means, immigrants and foreigners and heathens. Homeless, Jesus lived and preached among them. “Believe in people,” Jesus said, “believe in God. Believe in me.” Offered power, he refused it. People sitting in high places were enraged but Jesus mounted no defense. And he went to die without a protest, like a lamb lead to the slaughter. And he continued to confound them.
It Could Have Gone This Way (Version 2)
It Could Have Gone This Way
And the rich young ruler asked Jesus, “Teacher, what must I do to be saved?” And Jesus said, “Sell all you have, give it to the poor, and come, follow me.” And the rich young ruler did as Jesus commanded, investing his wealth in subversive ways. He built up the broken, brought the poor to great feasts, honored the old and the sick and the gay in the synagogue and in public. And the Roman authorities arrested him as a political radical, a disturber of peace and he said unto them “You have said we disrupt the peace. But lo, we are making it.” And the Romans, ashamed at this disgrace, beat him and kept him in custody. His friends, the poor and the weary and weak, remembered the vision Jesus had given him. And they continued in that way, and all were built up, and lo, none were cast aside or turned away.
(Mark 10 re-imagined).
Chris Cocca 