THIS IS THE FOURTH IN OUR
SUMMER SERIES
FOLLOW THROUGH
LIVING THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Dear All of Us,
I try not to be too fussy.
Honest, I really do.
However,
there is a However.
PASTA.
It absolutely,
- to be centered and
- to love the socks off God,
Being that love,
living that love,
having a hearty appetite for it,
is getting things
"JUST RIGHT."
It's loving and living
God's will and way of love
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Dear All of Us,
I try not to be too fussy.
Honest, I really do.
However,
there is a However.
PASTA.
It absolutely,
"pos-sa-toot-ly"
has to be al dente.
No soft mush allowed.
Firm to the bite and
only firm to the bite is
"Just Right!!"
Now Jesus and I have done
all sorts of things together
over the years, but so far
we haven't had a chance
to sit down together for pasta
(and of course wine - red,
full bodied, robust fruits).
So, I don't yet know exactly
how fussy Jesus is about
what makes pasta for him
"Just Right!!"
I do know, though,
that Jesus is fussy
as all heaven about
hunger and thirst.
"HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO
HUNGER AND THURST
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS,
FOR THEY SHALL
HAVE THEIR FILL."
Matthew 5:6
Jesus shares this stance,
this approach to life,
this attitude to being,
this
BE ATTITUDE,
urging us to
crave things being
"JUST RIGHT!!"
RIGHTEOUS
GOD RIGHT AND REAL
Happy such.
So, hanker and hunger,
long and thirst for
righteousness,
"Just Rightness"
Your appetite will be
treated to fullness now
and in
the kingdom coming.
Let's take a minute here
to precise the word
righteous.
That's because
for too many, too often,
it references
the self righteous,
those poor souls
starched to stiffness
in their ridged rightness
of self.
Wrong!
Righteousness is
God in action.
JUST RIGHT
are all
has to be al dente.
No soft mush allowed.
Firm to the bite and
only firm to the bite is
"Just Right!!"
Now Jesus and I have done
all sorts of things together
over the years, but so far
we haven't had a chance
to sit down together for pasta
(and of course wine - red,
full bodied, robust fruits).
So, I don't yet know exactly
how fussy Jesus is about
what makes pasta for him
"Just Right!!"
I do know, though,
that Jesus is fussy
as all heaven about
hunger and thirst.
"HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO
HUNGER AND THURST
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS,
FOR THEY SHALL
HAVE THEIR FILL."
Matthew 5:6
Jesus shares this stance,
this approach to life,
this attitude to being,
this
BE ATTITUDE,
urging us to
crave things being
"JUST RIGHT!!"
RIGHTEOUS
GOD RIGHT AND REAL
Happy such.
So, hanker and hunger,
long and thirst for
righteousness,
"Just Rightness"
Your appetite will be
treated to fullness now
and in
the kingdom coming.
Let's take a minute here
to precise the word
righteous.
That's because
for too many, too often,
it references
the self righteous,
those poor souls
starched to stiffness
in their ridged rightness
of self.
Wrong!
Righteousness is
God in action.
JUST RIGHT
are all
the wonders of Creation,
of existence rooted in God
and
of existence rolling forth
from God
- people, places, powers,
fundamental particles
to the limitless vastness
of space,
beauty and love
in ever expanding
forms and fruitions,
and all the Godness
that pulsates throughout.
That action, that dynamic,
is now current
with tons more to come -
of existence rooted in God
and
of existence rolling forth
from God
- people, places, powers,
fundamental particles
to the limitless vastness
of space,
beauty and love
in ever expanding
forms and fruitions,
and all the Godness
that pulsates throughout.
That action, that dynamic,
is now current
with tons more to come -
God's kingdom already come
and
God's kingdom yet to come,
JUST RIGHT
Jesus highlights that
a basic of happiness,
indeed of being and being blessed,
is living in and living out
God's righteousness
where and as we are,
letting it flow through us.
That's not self righteous.
That's participation in
God's righteousness.
Jesus is unequivocal,
unabashed, unrestrained
in urging us
to go for it, go with it, get in on it
desire it, get passionate about it -
hunger and thirst for it,
and we will be
filled to fullness.
Over the spread of creation's time,
God has revealed more and more
of the beauty and power of his
JUST RIGHT
It is incarnated in nature.
It is spoken by the prophets,
It is enfleshed and personalized
in Jesus,
in his living, teaching, redeeming.
It is unfolded by biblical writers.
It is evident in the
and
God's kingdom yet to come,
JUST RIGHT
Jesus highlights that
a basic of happiness,
indeed of being and being blessed,
is living in and living out
God's righteousness
where and as we are,
letting it flow through us.
That's not self righteous.
That's participation in
God's righteousness.
Jesus is unequivocal,
unabashed, unrestrained
in urging us
to go for it, go with it, get in on it
desire it, get passionate about it -
hunger and thirst for it,
and we will be
filled to fullness.
Over the spread of creation's time,
God has revealed more and more
of the beauty and power of his
JUST RIGHT
It is incarnated in nature.
It is spoken by the prophets,
It is enfleshed and personalized
in Jesus,
in his living, teaching, redeeming.
It is unfolded by biblical writers.
It is evident in the
experience and expressions
of world religions.
It continues in expanding
of world religions.
It continues in expanding
human consciousness.
So shared, we strive to live God's
JUST RIGHT
- to reverence and respect
So shared, we strive to live God's
JUST RIGHT
- to reverence and respect
earth and space,
all the elements and
all the elements and
energies of nature
- to seek and favor
- to seek and favor
The Common Good
- to share all with all
- to celebrate the varied
- to share all with all
- to celebrate the varied
types and tones of us
- to delight in every
- to delight in every
moment and mode
of beauty
- to be centered and
at home in the
Sacred Source and Flow
Sacred Source and Flow
of Godness
- to love the socks off God,
neighbor and self
- to do unto others as
- to do unto others as
we would have them do to us
- to nurture vibrant community
- to harmonize with Reality,
speaking the truth,
- to nurture vibrant community
- to harmonize with Reality,
speaking the truth,
relating justly, supportively,
encouragingly, openly
respecting person and place,
caring and helping,
freely sharing creativity
- to let God have us,
respecting person and place,
caring and helping,
freely sharing creativity
- to let God have us,
enfold us, love us and
join God in such for all.
That's the potential, the promise.
So sad to see and say
there is also problem.
Many and much are
That's the potential, the promise.
So sad to see and say
there is also problem.
Many and much are
the wrongings of Creation,
of God's Self Share,
of God's outpouring,
of God's Realness and Rightness,
violating the kingdom come
and
trying to thwart the kingdom coming.
People playing God,
people trying to rescript reality
but developing a horror story
in sick stead.
We don't hurt or harm in response.
We live out God's
JUST RIGHT
We don't hurt or harm in response.
We live out God's
JUST RIGHT
in our persons and places.
So,
- we elect and support leaders
who work to right the wrong's
of racial and ethnic injustice,
who guide us through
So,
- we elect and support leaders
who work to right the wrong's
of racial and ethnic injustice,
who guide us through
the hard conversations
and adjustments it takes
to do this
- we respect and delight
in the richness of
many and varied
traditions, religions,
and adjustments it takes
to do this
- we respect and delight
in the richness of
many and varied
traditions, religions,
orientations,
political persuasions
and life styles.
- we pay workers a livable wage
and insure they have a safe,
humane work environment
- we socially and fully
- we pay workers a livable wage
and insure they have a safe,
humane work environment
- we socially and fully
enfold the disable
- we work to develop
neighborhood community
- we work to develop
neighborhood community
and cooperation -
picnics, book swaps,
shared gardens and tool sheds,
shopping for the homebound,
and stopping in to visit,
we arrange sing a-longs
and musical performances,
happy hours, discussion groups,
and creatively so, so much more.
- we find or found small,
shared gardens and tool sheds,
shopping for the homebound,
and stopping in to visit,
we arrange sing a-longs
and musical performances,
happy hours, discussion groups,
and creatively so, so much more.
- we find or found small,
home churches
- we simplify our life styles
and share our means with many,
- we simplify our life styles
and share our means with many,
especially the marginalized
- we find ways to assist
- we find ways to assist
single parent families
- we mentor and help
in the maturing of young people.
- and how about jotting down here
five other positives to make
- we mentor and help
in the maturing of young people.
- and how about jotting down here
five other positives to make
negatives that way
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So, Jesus invites us
to come at God with
a great big appetite for
JUST RIGHT
and sit down at
the table of fullness.
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So, Jesus invites us
to come at God with
a great big appetite for
JUST RIGHT
and sit down at
the table of fullness.
It's perfectly fine
to be fussy about it.
HAPPY ARE THOSE
WHO HUNGER AND THIRST
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS,
FOR THEY SHALL HAVE THEIR FILL.
It's right good to be right here
FOR THEY SHALL HAVE THEIR FILL.
It's right good to be right here
together.
John Frank
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This week's offering has taken
John Frank
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This week's offering has taken
days upon days of effort and re-effort.
Some weeks are like that.
There are snippets of
There are snippets of
some of those efforts
not used above
all over the cutting room floor.
If you have interest,
all over the cutting room floor.
If you have interest,
here are a few for
PRAYER AND PONDER
Righteousness
is being centered, alive,
vigorous, responsive, active
in the realness,
the rightness,
the righteousness,
the very being of
God and God's
kingdom come and
and longing for
God's kingdom coming.
"In him we
live and move
and have our being."
Acts 17:28
Righteousness
is being centered, alive,
vigorous, responsive, active
in the realness,
the rightness,
the righteousness,
the very being of
God and God's
kingdom come and
and longing for
God's kingdom coming.
"In him we
live and move
and have our being."
Acts 17:28
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Righteousness is
being and acting
"in" Love
because that's
Righteousness is
being and acting
"in" Love
because that's
who and how
God is:
"God is love."
I John 4:8
God is:
"God is love."
I John 4:8
Being that love,
living that love,
having a hearty appetite for it,
is getting things
"JUST RIGHT."
It's loving and living
God's will and way of love
revealed in Nature, Scripture,
Tradition, Experience, Reason.
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The Rule of Right
is
God,
The Rule of Right
is
God,
God's Will and Way,
God's Word,
God's kingdom come,
God's kingdom coming.
It's right now.
It's to come.
Tuned to God,
we deeply desire,
we hunger and thirst for,
we are in sync with
God's kingdom come,
God's kingdom coming.
It's right now.
It's to come.
Tuned to God,
we deeply desire,
we hunger and thirst for,
we are in sync with
God and God's kingdom.
Jesus says and shows us
just how to be and do that,
how to have an appetite for it:
You shall love
the Lord your God
with all your heart,
and with all you soul,
and with all your mind....
You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37 &39
We be and do that in the particulars
and practicalities of our days.
Jesus says and shows us
just how to be and do that,
how to have an appetite for it:
You shall love
the Lord your God
with all your heart,
and with all you soul,
and with all your mind....
You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37 &39
We be and do that in the particulars
and practicalities of our days.
*****
Listen to me,
you that pursue
righteousness,
you that seek
the Lord.
Look to the rock
from which
you were hewn,
and to the quarry
from which
you were dug.
Isaiah 51:1
Listen to me,
you that pursue
righteousness,
you that seek
the Lord.
Look to the rock
from which
you were hewn,
and to the quarry
from which
you were dug.
Isaiah 51:1
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Ingest,
Ingest,
feed to feast,
imbibe to a
imbibe to a
divine intoxication of God's
"JUST RIGHT!!"
"JUST RIGHT!!"
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I'm happy but had.
Gonna treat these old bones
Gonna treat these old bones
to one long summer nap.
See you next week.
See you next week.
Should be up by then!!
Have yourself a fine week.
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