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Spicy, not Bland
Enlightenment. Sainthood. Whatever I call it, it does not mean to become bland, palatable to all tastes. Quite the opposite. It turns out, true enlightenment is a spicy dish. Rather than rounding off my sharp edges, I should lean into them. Me, just as I am right here, right now, is exactly how the Universe wishes to experience Itself through this incarnation called Cherie (or Sam or LaQuita…
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Pandemic Moraine
Shortly after my last blog post, the world changed: Infection. Isolation. Masks and disinfectant and small social pods. Stranger-danger on steroids. Sixteen months later, although the virus isn’t gone, we’re told it’s ok to get back to normal. Normal? I don’t know what normal looks like. I don’t know what normal is supposed to be. Over the past months, my business, my social life, and my soul…
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Beatitudes in One Sentence
by Wassily Kandinsky
What does the Beatitudes, summarized, say?
Divinely blessed are you:
when you feel that you are spiritually cut off from God;
you deeply grieve your aloneness;
the grief sifts you down to your essence;
causing you act authentically and with integrity in the world;
and though being authentic brings you mistreatment;
you don’t mistreat others in return, but instead see the world
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Though Pain May Come
Be Yourself by bollee patino
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The Beatitudes employ classic speech technique: Jesus tells us what he’s going to say, he tells us what he’s saying, and then he tells us what he said, expanding along the way. He is truly a master orator. He returns here in verse 10 to ‘the kingdom of heaven’ with which…
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Peace Workers
Art by Yuri Chasov
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. – Mt 5:9
This is one of my favorite Bible verses. Perhaps because I am someone who sometimes struggles internally with feelings of anger and anxiety, the idea of being a peacemaker is very appealing. I don’t know that I’ve ever been very successful at fomenting peace, but it’s the Beatitude I most…
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Sifted
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
The word pure has some negative connotations today. It’s been used as a weapon against women: purity culture. It’s been used to describe extremist expectations: purity test. Purity is used to determine who is in and who is out, who is safe and who is a target for attack, both verbal and physical.
So what, exactly, does Jesus mean by pure in…
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Get Right Inside
Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy.
Mercy is a word I associate with crime, punishment, and the legal system. In my mind, to be given mercy means to be granted forgiveness for my transgressions. It makes sense that Jesus would say this, because he said it in the Lord’s Prayer, as well.
Except that this isn’t what Jesus is saying at all. The Greek word eleos (the root of the…
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Blessed is the Journey to Ourselves
Blessed is the Journey to Ourselves
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” – Matthew 5:6
Both the words for hunger and for thirst carry the connotation of deeply desiring something. This isn’t a casual want, it’s a driving need.
And what do these people need? The word translated righteousness literally means the state of being as we ideally would be.It includes the concepts of right…
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Be a War Horse
Be a War Horse
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
This has never been my favorite verse. When I first came to Christianity (the fundamentalist flavor), I was taught that this means to be quiet and submissive, and to acquiesce to earthly (male) authority. <snort> Yeah, that’s going to happen.
Actually, I tried. I really did. I tried for years to be a quiet and gentle person. I still…
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Parakletos
“Holy Spirit” by Colleen Shay. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/colleen-shay
“Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
When I think of the word ‘mourn’, I think of people who look vaguely sad, who perhaps stare out the window in silence. For me, the word just doesn’t fully describe the full gamut of grief – the wailing, carrying on, shouting in anger, moaning with guilt…
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Rule the Universe
I am still working on Matthew 5:3. I’ve worked through “Blessed are the poor in spirit”, but what about “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”? Again, Strong’s Concordance is my friend.
The phrase that is translated “kingdom of heaven” is “basileia ton auranon.” “Basileia” is the canopy of the sky and everything in it, i.e., the universe. “Auranon” doesn’t appear to mean literal land (a kingdom),…
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Destitute
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Or in the CEB, “Happy are people who are hopeless, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs.” Matthew 5:3
What the actual what is this about? Happy and hopeless are not synonyms…
As usual, Spirit is way ahead of me. You see, I’m reading Henri Nouwen’s Show Me The Way, which is a Lenten devotional. In today’s reading, Nouwen…
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"Blessed"
“Blessed”
Art by: Joseph Matar, https://lebanonart.com
I am a follower of the dusty-footed one. I find his words inspiring and confusing. I want to place him in a particular context: love, joy, peace – all the ‘good’ things, but he refuses to remain in the construct of my choosing – the construct of a progressive perspective, if you will. He certainly doesn’t fit in the box created by fundamentalists. Who,…
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On "Outing" Myself
On “Outing” Myself
Thank you to everyone for your loving, amazing words after I inadvertently outed myself on Facebook. For those who saw my supplementary Facebook comment, you know that I didn’t mean for that post to be visible to anyone other than me. Why bother posting it at all, you may ask? Well, the reason was, I was grappling with how to begin the process of letting others know I was non-str…
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