For the person who has everything

For the person who has everything.
We have so much and yet still cant find a balance of possession and happiness. Maybe where we are looking is not where we can find the satisfaction of the soul. Jesus gives us another direction to follow and another path to explore. At the feet of Jesus we find the perfect gift for the person who has everything.

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For the person who has everything

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Celebrate Christ

Reclaiming the spirit of Christmas can be difficult. Forces are pulling at us from every side in an attempt to compel us to worship; possessions, positions, and people. If we re-frame the conversation from a me centered to a we centered approach we could regain the wonder of worship and celebrate a Child called Christ. Celebrate Christ

Tackling Race Head-On To Expose A 'Dreadful Deceit'

Jacqueline Jones NPR interview

this is an interview from NPR with Jacqueline Jones concerning race. there a quite a few things contained therein that are troubling. But first i want to share my brother (Joshua Missouri) response to the piece  

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=249570019

Race is a social construct, but it is no less real than religion, or social status. Race is real because an over wheeling swath of society believes in differentiating people based on skin color. It’s not American, see Rwanda, it is absolutely European. Which I suppose is why women were to be fair and white or why Sicilians are believed to be darker and therefor less civilized. It is our failing for not seeking truth and our forefathers for allowing it to be distorted - Joshua Missouri 

I will be posting my response to the interview a bit later 

Scandal: the suffering and endurance model of YOLO

     Reflecting on the episode last night i must say that i was troubled. the immersive world that Scandal has created Parry's between the models of suffering and endurance and a morphed redemptive model.  from a pure classical approach it is a recognition of seedtime and harvest. Quinn being seduced by gratuitous violence falls prey to the wilds of her own imagination. 

     The seed is Quinn wading into the world of violence... the harvest is eventually the violence that we glorify is the violence that overtakes us. 

She desires to test the waters of the violence that has been dealt to her on others. the irony is she has a Stockholm syndrome like affinity for Huck and his tormented life.  But lets not forget Quinn was a baby to this world of fetishized violence from season 1 to now we see how violence like any other behavior is learned embraced as a necessary evil and then fetishiezed. 

Living in a world where we are born into pain. taught that pain and violence is necessary and when the mind is conditioned to believe that pain is a reality pain will become the obsession . This is the world that faithful people live in. 

One year ago 26 children and adults died in a school shooting in newtown Connecticut. And one year later we have not found the courage to pass assault weapon legislation's. since that shooting we have had 2 additional mass shootings and yet lack courage to effect change.

This is the world faithful people live.

Catholic priest James Allison suggest that in this world of memetic violence Jesus directing us toward another way to be. Allison suggest that the crucifixion is more than payment but a paradigm shift.  A way of mindfulness versus the human proclivity for revenge and pain. Jesus says from the cross... "forgive them father for they know not what they do"...

Below is a link to Exploring the New Paradigm: Giraud and the Christianity of the 21st

 Century

http://www.jamesalison.co.uk/pdf/James-Alison-Brian-McLaren-COVandR-transcript.pdf