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Sunday, January 12, 2025

What kind of world do we create?

We get the kind of world we ourselves create by our faith.  Change the faith, change the assumptions, and the perceptions will change.  Change the perceptions and the attitudes will change.  Change the attitudes and the actions will change.  Change your faith and you will get a new world.  Get rid of the notion of measuring deserts.  Replace it ith generous unconditional love…  Feel absolutely safe with God who loves us into being and sustains us always

                     Beatrice Bruteau

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There is not enough they tell us.

Not enough money

Not enough food

Not enough power

Not enough housing

 

This is a world of scarcity

Everyone is competing

This is a world of “us” and ‘them”

“They” are outsiders and aliens

“They” are threats

 

So we must fear them, hate them

Control them, subdue them

 

Ah, fear

It is so powerful

It causes us to grasp and horde

To put up walls

Buy guns

Attack nations

And hate.  Yes, fear leads to hate

 

It is so useful for those who would

Dominate and control

 

But God says “Be not afraid.”

Trust in God.  Trust in GodWithUs

Trust that God is within us

Us

All of us

 

Trust that there is not scarcity but abundance

There is enough of God’s love for all

There is enough air, water, land, food

There is enough power

For everyone to have

Enough

 

Enough to flourish

To live

To find peace, hope and joy

 

If we understand that we have abundance

Which can be shared

Which must be shared

For earth to be heaven

 

God is in us

We are in God

We are all bound together at the deepest level

Community, communion, union

 

We do not have to be afraid

(although we often are. At least I am)

We do not have to create a world of scarcity

Hostility and insecurity

 

We can create a different world

As we define our world and ourselves

From the perspective of abundance not deficiency

As we understand, and have faith that we are

Absolutely loved by God

 

And then manifest that love

Live that love

And let Love cast out fear

 

 

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