Goodnight Jesus

Easter came and is almost gone
and I didn't make it to church

but I was around a lot of people
in states of sharing and touch and love

dancing together

what would Jesus think?

Good
Life is good celebrate life

What was Jesus for?

To remind us to wake up
from the sleep of unforgiving
the sleep of resentment
tbe sleep of forgetting to love
our neighbors

Why is that a sleep?

What's not to love about the one
who lives next door?

They do what you want:
easy love.

They do what you don't want:
harder love
and you can love them for developing your love
muscle

and who can we love right
now
who is a bit hard

that's the Easter game
the egg to hunt

who are we holding out on loving
and what is the story
by which we are protecting ourselves
from loving
the "boundary" behind which our castle/ kingdom
can stay at war with theirs

give up the war
give up the kingdom
the kingdom is within

we are all one

hallelueh

ciao
and happy bunny

Chris

Complaining in, Complaining Out

So, complaining goes like this:

In it comes and we can

1. Take in personally and get all bummed, wigged, angry, sad etc

2. Listen and find it interesting and learn what someone thinks about us

3. Listen and look inside and find out how the observations are usually correct

And this is the drag:

Someone says "You are so selfish," and sure, we can all find that in ourselves.

And under the words, is the tone: You are yuk.

Well, no one is yuk.

So, one way to deal with criticism in is the here the comment and find the truth there, and realize that the undertone of "yuk" is just a way the other person may want us to feel bad.

What's to feel bad about not being perfect?

Check it out.



and then THE OTHER WAY: CRITICISM OUT

You have some harsh words to say about another person.

(Usually to a third party, unless you are the normal person wasting your relationship using in as a slugfest of insult and jib and counter-insult and jib.)

Okay:
You are the one saying: You are selfish.
or,
So and so is selfish, silly, ignorant, arrogant.

Fine, that's usually true.

And, get over the thinking they are yuk, because,
hey
you can always look in and see that,
wow:
I'm selfish, silly, ignorant, arrogant.

Wow: we've got that in common.

Both ways:
criticism in: wow, they told be something that's true about me

criticism out: wow, me and another have something in common


And, is that all true?

Run it around as c in, and c out, and see what you c?

Christmas coming, the geese are getting worried, parenting Wed,

one day
we
will all be dead

apparently
one day
a long time ago
or long long
time ago
depending on your sense of timing
the Jesus child was born

he was clear on His life's purpose:
to be one with God
to speak for God
to help people find the Kingdom of Heaven within
to try to put out this radical message:
love your neighbor
love your enemy

a big job he/ He set out to do
and with some miracles to jazz up the interest
and some good parables
and a great salesman (Paul)
some of his/ His stuff and ideas are
still around

and some days
we love our neighbors
and love our enemies
and even
gasp
love our selves

wednesday is
"supposed" to be about parenting:

well,
sometimes the little shits
seem like enemies
and then
we have to remember:
whose idea was it to bring them into the world
and
what is it that they don't understand
and
what is it that we don't understand
about how we are contributing
to their being
in one of their awful states

and then,
as always,
when we learn how we are asleep
and operating out of habit
and control programs
and forgetting to listen,
we can breathe
and be
now
and listen to them
and our own life

and then we can be happy
and when we are really happy
the enemy thing
dissolves

and if this doesn't work
then the work will

ciao
chris