FYI
Am posting a
few hours early
Dear All of Us,
Seems we all
have decidedly
different and distinct
preferences
on just
HOW
we like our food
served up -
well done, crispy,
really rare, tender,
seasoned to next Sunday,
piping hot, crunchy.
It's the
HOW
of the what.
Such goes for
all our
life preferences
music to politics,
education
to home furnishings.
The biggest of the big is
HOW
we like God served up
in our favored
types and tones of spirituality,
nature's settings and splendor,
the arts, social geographies,
communities of significance,
and totally outranking all of them
our preference for
HOW
God is served up in other people.
Even with a food court
of differences,
most of us want God served up
in people pleasant, personable,
attractive and impressed with us!
Tough toddles, Totsie!!
Ain't gonna happen everyday
and never all day!!
To switch metaphors,
God sings us people
in a vast range
of
tones and tempos
in the harmony of
Being
Our spirituality,
sanity, society
depend on developing
an ear for God.
Otherwise
we are out of
sink and step,
tone deadened dull,
missing the beat,
tripping up the tapping,
discordant.
We jar dissonant
God's
rhythmic cadence
and it sure as heck is
jarred dissonant
just now.
To combine the metaphors,
we miss God people present
unless we meet God
served up as,
have an ear for God,
in
others quite other,
often mirror opposites
of us:
liberals - conservatives,
introverts - extroverts
people religious -
people nonreligious and
people of other religions,
sophisticates -
plain down-home folks,
travelers - stay at homes,
fans of The Boss -
devotees (Tah Tah) of Brahms
vegetarians - carnivores,
city folks -
town and country folks.
It's a stretch for sure
and for sure worth it.
It opens us wide to God
present
in them
different all.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and Antoin Scalia
experienced
that goodness,
that Godness,
in spades.
That stretch, though, gets
especially difficult to painful
when it comes to hearing God,
when it comes to God served up,
in sick, sinful, difficult, dangerous,
people.
Covered over is their deep down
God Core.
We certainly need to deal with
their negatives and dangers
as necessary for our safety
and well-being.
But, for all the stress,
even that danger of it,
We just must not miss
their positive core.
That's where we meet God.
If world leaders
get in touch
with the God Core,
say, of
Vladimir Putin,
they would have the
best possible clarity
on how to deal with him
and respond to his aggression.
It's not ours to decide
HOW
God is served up or heard.
It is ours not to miss
God
people present.
Particularly pertinent
is this in our right now.
People are scared, angry, divisive,
and dangerously so.
We either meet and merge in God
at each other's God Center
or
we strike out in hurt
and thus
strike out in
HOW
God is present in others,
even if they
don't know it,
don't or can't or won't
live it out
and that to Creation's detriment.
All pretty piety pushed aside,
quite clearly, quite actually
HOW
we respond to and treat others is
EXACTLY
how we do or don't meet
God.
"Whatever you do
to the least of these,
you do unto me,"
Matthew 25:40
That' the
HOW
of it.
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God Bless,
John Frank
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