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This morning’s romp and glimpse about Kingdom of G*d has led me to this: What might be fun would be to ask people What the Kingdom of G-d means to them.

What would it look like to institute it on earth here and now?

Do you feel that is your duty—to make that heaven on earth now?

Why does that feel like an hypothetical question to you, and not one which is on fire for you? What would make it on fire for you?

What can we do, here and now?

What would a year of jubilee mean to our society, if we actually took it seriously?

What would it mean to seek first this kin-dom and let everything else go? What does Bucky’s 50 year experiment teach us? Can we throw down our lives for all of humanity and see? Am I willing to throw down mine? And what of the people who depend upon me? Could I convince them to come along, like Abraham had to with his entourage?

Lord, tough questions you are giving me today, dangerous and exciting. Help me to address you.

:- Doug.

We’ve lost touch with what we mean by
Kingdom of G*d.
It is the kin-dom of with all and
our kin-dom with G*d.
It is justice-ing, inviting, welcoming, embracing.
So we are all working toward
the Kin-dom of G*d:
where the world G*d so loves is
the world we love, too.
Where the ones G*d would rescue
we too would rescue.
Where the ones G*d would visit, encourage, bind up, inspire, we
too visit, encourage, bind up, and inspire.

:- Doug.

Is our deepest fear we may never
become who we dreamed
we’d be?
Could this be
a more fundamental fear
than fear of death?
Live, live
against the dying of this light–
in the angry youth
the tired politician
the goal-centered
in yourself
in your friends.
Live, live
bring alive
the dreams
of whom we still can be.

:- Doug.

Maybe money needs an expiration date.

:- Doug.