Dear All of Us,
What follows is from
today's journal entry of
an eight-six year-old,
follower of Jesus,
husband, father, grandfather,
pastor, counselor, educator -
that would be me.
MONDAY JUNE 15, 2026
Definitely a NewNow for me -
a more physically limiting
and spirit freeing stretch
along this late last expanse of
the road to Forever.
Can't get out and about much
but what wide my soul!
Much quieter, don’t want
a lot of buzz and busy,
spend long stretches
just being - peaceful and serene.
Absorbed in the Eternal Now
in the here and now -
a skyscape, dinner, a picture.
Am joyed by a baby, a flower,
a hymn, a smile, watching my
Grand Son come alive.
A calm, gentle, all rightness.
God and me quietly one.
It’s the old grandpa sitting quietly still,
absorbed in the freedom of Being.
I see and understand
so much so simply now.
Three Seeings
that trouble/rejoice
my heart most of all:
Church,
State,
Kingdom
The Establishment Church
has compromised the Gospel.
The Establishment Church
is falling apart and needs to.
Sadly, so many now are ready
for Spirit Deep Dive and
The Establishment Church
offers a puddle of religiosity.
My country suffers
a lot of inner rot and
it has surfaced in
ugliness, anger,
selfishness, violence of
word, deed and greed.
It is the plight and peril
of way many more
lands and peoples
than just in
my homeland.
The greed of
a controlling few
has a vice lock grip on
most of most.
Under their selfish,
reckless watch
nature abuse,
nuclear threat and
unchecked AI
may kill off
God’s gift of
planet Earth
and its
human inhabitants.
So sad much of this rot
sprawled across the lawn of
The Peoples’ House
here in Washington, DC.
last night.
It was putrid sin
in the name of patriotism.
To celebrate Donald Trump’s
eightieth birthday and
America’s two hundred and fiftieth,
Donald Trump hosted
a birthday brawl on the
south lawn of
The White House.
It was a mass-media spectacle
of bloody savagery
wrapped in a flag.
Cage Fighting.
"A human cock fight"
as John McCain
used to call it.
It was an
outlandishly priced,
vulgar, trashy
icon of the condition
into which so many
have been
conned.
Evil Empire
For all of that
The Kingdom of God
flourishes gloriously
right here, right now:
so many soul focused on
The Common Good,
couples faithful and familied,
small churches/home churches
God Love living,
poets and prophets,
grandparents' round two,
singles God absorbed
and community serving,
mystics in the workplace,
seekers and sharers
in centers of learning,
healers of body and mind,
music makers,
food growers,
neighbors caring and sharing,
justice seeker/sayers,
others markedly "other" welcomed,
left outs invited in,
workers laboring for family and
The Family of Us,
the endowed endowing,
peacemakers patching
peoples one.
Jesus heard and followed:
"Change your lives.
The Kingdom is here"
Matthew 4:17
The Message
and they have.
They live out a script
divinely, delightfully,
different than that of
deadening Empire,
one joyous, refreshing,
wholesome,
"The word of Life":
"Go out into the world
uncorrupted,
a breath of fresh air
in this squalid
and polluted society.
Provide people with a
glimpse of good living
and of God.
Carry the life-giving Message
into the night..."
Philippians 2:16a-14b
The Message
Light Lived in the dark of deadening Empire.
They make personal, practical
and communal that
"life-giving Message."
"God is love"
1John4:8
and they live that love
at home, at work, always.
"Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always, 'me first,'
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel.
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with everything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end."
I Corinthians 13:4-7
The Message
It totally up ends
Empire's deadening down.
Kingdom people realize
- make real -
that exactly how
we treat others
is exactly how
we treat God.
"Whatsoever you do
to others you do
unto me."
Mathew 25:48
Three Seeings
Church - County - Kingdom.
It’s our version of
“The best of times,
the worst of times.”
It’s also the time
of OUR lives.
Empire is hell bent.
Kingdom is wondrously aborning.
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As Walter Cronkite
used to say at the end of the
CBS Evening News,
"And that’s the way it is,
June 15, 2026."
What's our
WAY SAY?
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Love to all.
God Bless.
John Frank
frankly speaking
spirituality for the street
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