Your Deepest, Darkest Sins And Your Shameful

Because With Every Action, Comment, Conversation, We Have The Choice To Invite Heaven Or Hell To Earth.

If It Is True, If It Is Beautiful, If It Is Honorable, If It Is Right, Then Claim It. Because It Is From God. And You Belong To God.

And A Lot Of Times, The Religious Discussion Is Almost A Masquerade For The Real Question, Is What Stories That We Tell Ourselves And That We Tell Each Other And What Convictions And Beliefs Actually Have The Capacity To Make Us The Kind Of People Who Together Can Make The World The Kind Of World We All Want It To Be?

Some Communities Don't Permit Open, Honest Inquiry About The Things That Matter Most. Lots Of People Have Voiced A Concern, Expressed A Doubt, Or Raised A Question, Only To Be Told By Their Family, Church, Friends, Or Tribe: "we Don't Discuss Those Things Here." I Believe The Discussion Itself Is Divine. Abraham Does His Best To Bargain With God, Most Of The Book Of Job Consists Of Arguments By Job And His Friends About The Deepest Questions Of Human Suffering, God Is Practically On Trial In The Book Of Lamentations, And Jesus Responds To Almost Every Question He's Asked With...a Question.

I Feel Like I've Gotten An Extraordinary Opportunity To Experience A Sort Of Collective Humanity. If You Hug Many People In Such A Short Period Of Days You Pick Up On A Communal Energy, Almost Like Feeling A Giant Heartbeat That Everyone Is Beating Together.