What if Christians...

 

What if all who worship Jesus Christ as the Son of God harmonized like a Heavenly choir singing? What if all worshippers of the God of Abraham united in their faiths, recognizing each other as fellow believers? What if all the worshippers worldwide who worship God Creator agreed to accept that if there is one Creator, we all worship in our ways the glorious majesty?   

What if all Christians worshipped their own way and recognized others' worship of their Lord Jesus in different fashions? What if Christ could be worshipped in Songs or Psalms? What if the length of one's Bible did not matter as long as the message remained the same? What if Christians recognized each other's saving graces instead of their differences? What a lovely choir and sweet incense our worship and prayers would be! Instead of a catfight between the Church brides of Christ, perhaps they should learn to share Jesus as much as they share the gospel message.

What if worshippers of the God of Abraham acknowledged each other as fellow worshippers of the God that called Abraham out of Ur? What if instead of casting dispersions on each other as madmen, minus a testament, missing the actual book of God, being too late to be accepted, or even being too different in beliefs, we all stepped back and acknowledged each other as believers? Many of us close our scripture collection with our own books instead of gathering like fans every work credited to Abraham's God to see for ourselves what is in it. What if we united as the people who worship the God of Abraham?

What if all worshippers of God, accepting that there is one Creator, agreed to allow God variety in how it is worshipped? What if we let God have more than one name, one book, one religion? What if we recognized that we all worship God, the Creator? What if having a temple to the Creator was seen by all who worship the God Creator as commendable, a step in the right direction? What if being fellow created creatures was a good foundation to start interfaith harmony?

What a different world it would be if Christians, fellow worshippers of the God of Abraham or God Creator, all recognized each other's humble walk of faith. We could get along much better without bringing attention to our differences. We could become friends instead of calling each other in error and needing to change our evil ways...      

A New Telling of the Fable...

 

What if, in the beginning, there was a naturally brilliant infinite mind due to all space existing sentient to its content phenomena, including knowledge? What if this great, vast, infinite mind learned to create by visualization? What if everything in existence was created except for the mind and natural phenomena that caused it to be? What if even our god-heroes are made for their roles and necessary performances? What if creations and heavens are two sides of the same coin of the acts of God?

What if the beginning was in a state of grace-caused knowledge? What if intelligence is the natural state of mind? What if nature was a vast infinite all-container that everything happens inside of? What if the only natural existing items are perpetual time, infinitesimal dimensions of space-filled infinite all-container, visualization ability, and sentience of the all-container to itself? What if knowledge development started as quickly as making observations, associations, and symbolic representations of these? 

What if it became apparent to the mind that its will was done, and as quickly as visualizing, it could create anything it thought up? What if, throughout the ages, it learned to compose fiction, tell stories, and entertain itself along with its omnipresent audience of co-creators? What if, once upon a time, it created our universe and the Earth? What if it filled the seas, land, and air with lives? What if it made a couple tend to the vast zoological gardens in the image of intelligent, tool-abled, state-of-grace beings contrasted to educated? Not gods or beasts. 

What if everything that exists is thought to be by the mind or its hosted beings given intelligent life? What if this is the apparent truth to all-seeing co-creators existing from the period of grace before creating times and ages of tales being told? What if, on Earth, we needed a god-hero after a fall from a grace-filled mind to suffering humanity? What if this god-hero was just what humanity needed? What if he could heal the sick, feed the hungry, raise the dead back to life, and resurrect himself? 

What if a few thousand years later, humanity wrote this entire narrative off as a likely story, a fable, of course? What if humanity was struggling to spread the word of the love of the god-hero and his gifts to suffering humanity in the mission fields on Earth? What if the intelligent lives not in a state of grace slowly thought up a lifeless, godless universe over their heads as the centuries of explaining things without recourse to a creator went on? What if that takes us to this day? 

As We Begin Our Lenten Journey

 

As we begin our Lenten journey, let us remember the gift is Christ. We receieve Jesus in Lent. On Christmas he was born among us, on Lent he was gifted to us. Jesus as our gift from the Heavenly Father is our healer, teacher, and saviour to mention a few of his roles. Jesus is our Heavenly older brother who with open arms with the Father waits to greet all the prodigal sons and daugthers home.

Jesus is our Lenten gift from God. He is the Paschal lamb. He is the atoning offering. He makes peace with us and God. On Christmas he was born amongst us. On Lent he was offered up for us. After his ministry of miracles he was sacrificed so we might know God's love for us is death defying. In life he healed the sick and even raised the dead. After death he was crucified, died, and was buried, and rose on the third day. Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father enthroned as our God hero.

Jesus is our healer, teacher, and saviour. As our God hero he reigns ever ready to intercede on our behalf. Prayers to the Saints to intercede on our behal or in Jesus name rise like incense to his martyrs throne. Not everyone is able to receive a crucified God king. Those that are have a special place in his heart. They are those that can see though humble is the lamb great is the lion in the lamb's skin. 

Jesus waits for us patiently in Heaven to turn to him and recieve his grace to return to God as children. His mission fields will not close until all the prodigals return home. Lost sheep, black sheep, prodidigal sons or daughters, all those institutionally rejected, unwanted, undesirable he awaits with open arms. Come to me and be free of rejection in my graces, he says to all who will hear.