COFFEE BREAK 131

+ updated at 4:43pm EST, Wednesday, January 27, 2010

+ If you check the column on the left, you will see I'm doing some blog hunting these days.  I've been dealing with people who do not share a significant portion of my beliefs, values and experiences lately and now I'm turning back to those who do share them.  As a mentor of mine in the 1960s said: "You will die without colleagues."  Thank you, my fellow spiritually and politically progressive bloggers.   

+ I have enjoyed offering my beliefs and values and experiences at Viola Larson's blog, Naming His Grace.  But it's time to move on.  In response to "Elephants and gods: writing about an article in Hungryhearts," I offered the following final comment:

Dear Viola,

I am totally frustrated now and I think it's time for me to move on. Your belief that my belief is not as solid and truthful as yours is simply nonsense as far as I am concerned.

I have gone round and round for decades with people who find their safe harbor in the very narrow confines of Jesus-olatry and Bible-olatry. I keep trying to develop mutual respect but your side always says that my side is apostate and heretical.

Fortunately, your side is in the minority in the PC(USA) and I pray to God that it stays that way.

Having said that, I do thank you for your very sincere effort to listen to me as hard as that is for some one within your very narrow confines. Your blog is really interesting and I may be back but I need to move on for now.

A Final Word: I have tried to explain how orthodoxy is simply not the way you and others here see it but that's a losing battle within this space. It's your Blog. I hope you will be as open as you can possibly be to Truth and I hope you will change and grow.

Thanks again.

love, john a wilde, whitesboro ny + "The spirit of liberty is the spirit of not being too sure you are right.” – Judge Learned Hand

+ Something Wonderful Is Happening ... right now ... right here.  I'm talking about Reality.  Simply the way things really are.  Not the past, not the future. Not even the present if the present is understood as a moment in time rather than eternity. So, let go.  Let God.  and WOW!  Something Wonderful Is Happening.  As Franz Kafka put it:

You do not need to do anything; you do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You do not even need to listen; just wait. You do not even need to wait; just become still, quiet and solitary and the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

And that's a Message for the Trek.  See them all at www.abundancetrek.com/mftt.

+ The Witherspoon Society offers "Big Money Talks – and the Supreme Court says its freedom of speech must be protected" by Gene TeSelle, former Issues Analyst of the Witherspoon Society.  It begins: "We had suspected it for a long time, but now, thanks to a swing vote by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the United States is officially a plutocracy. On the dubious and probably perverse principles that corporations are legal persons and that political contributions are 'speech' protected by the First Amendment, restrictions on corporate contributions to issue organizations (though not to specific political campaigns) have basically been thrown out. The decision, says Mark Green in The Huffington Post, allows 'a Katrina of corporate money' to 'overwhelm the levees of democracy.'"