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the wonder twins of worship
when it comes to the Lord our God
is praying and playing from the depths of our hearts
to use our instruments to allow
the melody of God to reveal
to use our bodies as living witnesses
to bring forth God's power to heal
for the word of God is the foundation
of the theological message in the song
and the melody will always sit on top of God's words
where it righteously belongs
the raw breath of God does not need our assistance.
it only needs us to apply an unparalleled persistence
yes, preparation is required
when it comes to giving God our best
rehearsals and practice must be approached
with importance and not a mild interest
It's okay to judge the gifts,
just never question those who are anointed
yes, there is great talent
but were they by God assigned and appointed
let your worship be your relationship with God
and let your daily prayer life build a legacy
as we stir up the gifts God gave us
dancing and playing with a dedicated tenacity
so let us prophesize with our instruments
let the movement of dance embody the Holy Spirit,
the twin wonders of worship,
praying and playing with a godly commitment
A humbling human crack
in every theological
God v Man
divine spirit v human nature
oppositional relationship
Monotheistic belief
in our sacred past,
religiously fine
but anti-polytheistic hope
desecrating Earth's polyculturally wealthy future,
irreligiously not OK.
Anthropocentric passion
and sacred love pleasure
cognitively and intuitively fine,
but EarthCentric dispassion
and organic life displeasure,
not cognitively or intuitively OK.
WE compassion
good-natured climate conservation
definitely fine,
but THEY dispassion
bad-spirited caste preservation
infinitely not OK
Cracks that whet
shared Light inside.
(“Loyalty Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)
Religion of Dog
Religions come in all shapes and sizes
Some good, some not so much.
But what would a religion of dog be like?
Kind, devoted and loyal, willing to please
And to defend, and be happily conditioned.
These would be the attributes of its followers
But what of the essence of its theological tenants?
Love, eternal vigilance, situational awareness
And of course joy
In a long walk or good play of tug or frisbee.
A religion of dog after all would be grounded
With it’s main focus the here and now,
Maybe not a zen focus
Maybe even more Dionysian,
But certainly within this
The values of family and pack
Would be supreme,
And this after all is not much different
Than all the human religions.
The difference which would make all the difference
Would have more to do with the wag.
(9/8/25)
let's make a joyful noise
as we sing songs to our Lord
let us strum a guitar, beat a drum
and tickle the piano key board
in harmony, in sync
let our voices now be raised
as we give our Lord God
all of our praise
with pious psalms of devotion .
theological tunes of a spiritual notion
reverent rhymes of acclamation
loving lyrics of a Christian affiliation
so let's make a joyful noise
as we praise and worship God
a Christ filled cacophony
from the depths of our hearts
Thales the monist
(But Phales first)
Anaxamander's apeiron
Bound by Thales's thirst
Aristotle's forms are particular
He found Plato forms peculiar
A dualistic idealist
Mathematically sure
(Or so he thought)
and no one bought
Pythagoras's mysticism
Mathematical or not
And then there's Kant
A metaphysical agnostic
Hume's empiricism
Is left to criticism
And Barkley left a theological veneer
On a history of philosophy so *****
Leaving no one to know for sure
We'll God knows, and knows why
He doesn't discover anything new
He doesn't learn anew or is surprised
(So if your tempted to call it Murphy's Law)
Call on Him the Original Know-It-All
To bow at feet divine, yet feel the weight/
Of every fault, each sin he does dictate/
A love proclaimed, yet fire awaits below/
In sadistic trials, our fate does show/
A tyrant's rule, a dictators scheme/
A mind consumed by power, it would seem/
In psychiatric terms, a narcissist plea/
A God who craves our praise, eternally/
If love so pure condemns to fire's embrace/
One questions this divine, omnipotent grace/
A paradox in words, where love and wrath/
Seem intertwined on a narrow path/
Communistic echoes in divine decree/
Where worship is forced/
And freedom can not be/
A kingdom not ruled by Democracy/
But by iron hands of theological tyranny/
The question lingers, in the silent night/
Can love be true/
When governed by such might/
* I'm trying out Halloween 'Harley Quinn' looks *
If light is the fastest thing in the universe,
why is darkness already there when light arrives?
After watching Harry and Megan Sussex grub for ever more cash and attention, I’ve decided that they should start a OnlyFans site.
We’re going to a booze-free dance party.
“You don’t have to drink to have fun.” I assure myself, in the bathroom mirror, but somehow the event sounds like a high school dance.
I’ve been reading the Internet - was it really a giant squid that sank the Titanic?
...
Panpsychism Is a scientific theory postulating that consciousness is part of the fabric of the Universe.
On the theological level, why would God (or nature) create the bitter taste of espresso and vivid, azure skies slashed with rainbow sunsets if stimulating consciousness weren’t important?
“Colors, tastes and smells are no more than names,” Galileo declared 400 years ago. “(as perceptions) they reside only in consciousness.”
Does life exist, as sensors, to experience stimuli for the galactic consciousness?
The shoreless avenue
Is the theological dogma,
Lingered in the deepest shaft.
The prestige of the pure
Is the most honest conversation.
These shall cover the hunger
Of eloquence and austerity.
Shell the distracted ground,
When it rods beyond
The dreams of mysticism.
Love Letters to the ground
Signifies the embodied
Experiences of the past
Whilst I am whisked away
In my shattered cage.
Simon Peter was a lonely fisherman
Craving for success
In the only vocation he knew
But delay bugged him down
Disappointment dogged his every step
Then stepped in the savior of his soul
And massive breakthrough
Followed the failed fisherman
As Jesus put an end to his past
And gave birth to his future
As a fisher of men
Jesus did not consult his past
To give him the future destined for him
Jesus did not worry about
His theological background
He rather looked at his heart
And found him ready and available
Listen when He calls
And make yourself available
For He uses broken things
By man’s estimation
And qualifies them to work in His vineyard!
Human healthy trust ecological experience,
including wealthy peak sensory transubstantiations,
uniquely recreate Divine sacred co-empathic feelings
of theological confluence,
InterReligious mystical integrity
enveloping what had been felt,
before this timeless temporal metamorphosis,
as a more autonomous egocentric identity.
Theo/Eco-Logical neuro-systemic communication
of inside/outside/sacred-co-inside echoing
co-incidental relationships
reframe compassion's regenerative processes
Such as indigenous
pantheistic
theological integrity
co-arising shared sacred feelings
of anticipated/anxious sensory longing
for win/win EarthTribal resilient
resonant re-connection
re-ligious Awe
re-weaving Wonder
regenerating peace
Restoring
Re-storying EarthMother past narratives
of pristine
sacred pre-Anthropocene
pantheistic health
is also perennial Golden Rule
co-arising humane climate recovering
bicameral
bipartisan
divinely beautiful wealth.
Till tomorrow a nasty style
Nigerians stretch a bold mile:
Sermons which begin with obituary
And proceed to The Mortuary…
The Waiting Choice of Deaconess Emmanuela
Seeking and discovering The Best Umbrella
For mandating sinners’ fastest repentance
Of deeds that might no more clinch penance.
Also, of Pastor Prince at war with Theological Schools,
Because break a preacher could one or two rules…
I simply pray Prince won’t this try in London
For a Whole Assembly shall him abandon:
Spiritual messages of the scary;
Tales Gospel – like but still fairy.
EarthTribe honored member,
now a sacred journeyed Elder,
remembers us polyculturally richest
in our heathiest remember
Not monoculturally white privileged
and not merely elite competitors
against profoundly humbling humanity
Blithely ignorant
when choosing LeftBrain supremacist attitudes,
positive v negative incisive
political humor,
like economic faith
and ecological relationships
and theological power
and biological health
and transforming news,
come in green inclusive thrivalist
and red exclusive survivalist
for any healthy
resonantly resilient democracy
For Earth's top linguistic
and deep listening bottomless species
dialectic polyphonic consciousness
dialogically polypathic
dipolar co-arising
Co-gravitating toward
multicultural wisdom
indigenous to all loving life
Polyculturally healthy v monoculturally pathological
thriving v barely surviving
cooperative win/win v win/lose overdrive competitions unwinding
EarthTribe health and safety
of democratic expanding history
drives my positively regenerative
and negatively degenerative,
thoughtfully humane and beautifully divine
bicamerally therapeutic dignity.
(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of
racial prejudice courtesy
of sharecropper grandparents
whose objection to racial segregation
based on an affront to the will of God,
whereby the young whip smart precocious lad,
(whose impact we now memorialize)
showed his true colorful promise
when a young student at
Liberal Crozer Theological Seminary
in Chester, Pennsylvania
where the yet uncrowned
eminent king came under the influence
of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr,
a classmate of his father's
at Morehouse College
who became a mentor by exposing
his protégée to liberal views of theology
planting the seeds of ardent activism
that gave rise to
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC),
an initial platform
allowing, enabling and providing acclaim
hoisted up by petard
invariably only heightened
(his) posthumous status
as thee most articulate orator
spelling binding the listeners
with his metaphors about his emphatic march
to a promised land where all
men/women could be brothers/sisters
and no person will be judged
by the color of his/her skin
raising morale of many dirt poor
ebony masses to feel a glimmer of hope.
We gregarious beings live to expand and the most admirable thing is that we grow faster when we move together. When we share life with pals and loved ones, every moment becomes a treasure worth wrapping and preserving inside heart. Just a little thought, just a little effort can ignite us to contribute to a bright future.
Could we sit together and do meditation?
Could we ensure that we belong to the nation?
Could we move away from theological apprehensions?
Could we extend ourselves in cooperation?
Could we help in growth and education?
Could we work together for restoration?
Could we know that we are one despite varied location?
Could we grow above just personal recognition?
Could we stop permanently being on vacation?
Could we support people suffering in privation?
Could we curb the painful hideous starvation?
Could we control unwanted, untoward vexation?
VEXATION: The state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried.
HIDEOUS: Ugly
PRIVATION: A state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking.
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