LET’S SHARE TOGETHER

Share with me your story

Please be willing to hear mine

Share with me your wisdom

I’ll share ways and means I found mine

Reveal your life’s losses and finds

I’ll share my own apportioned line*

Does your attitude rightly align 

While I examine my own in kind?

The right attitude helps us unwind

The static, uncomfortable inclines

That we must control for the decline

Of separateness and one-island confines.

~~ Mary Handy Moore

*Measures of Destiny. No more, no less. A line is infinite in space. Points (in time and space) are positions on a line. Let a point in this case be a Star. We are that.

Tell Me, Tell Me, Tell Me

Tell me you love me

And I’ll say it right back.

Tell me you trust me

And I’ll thank you for that.

Tell me that you see me.

I promise to see you right back.

You tell me you find worth in me.

Your insight makes me feel like that.

Your wisdom about life and times includes me.

Tell me, how can I not revel in that?

Your understanding wisdom makes me see

What you see. I’ll make that my top hat.

~~ Mary Handy Moore

My philosophy of the banana peel

“Obviously, God has something to say about the relationship between sin and righteousness.  That is another discussion.  For now we need to realize that sin is a function of behavior.  It is not a quantity that must be removed or a substance that I am born with.  It is all about what I do – each and every day.  God says He will never alter His willingness to bring me into right relationship with Him.  He will always accept my decision to turn to Him.  But I have to choose what I am going to do about His invitation.  What I choose to do either encourages the relationship or frustrates it.  Even James assumes this dynamic when he says that sin is knowing what is the right thing to do and not doing it.”

https://www.skipmoen.com/2010/09/a-philosophy-of-sin/

I thought on the commercial about the banana peel and its status as a banana peel; it was still a banana peel when I thought it through. Imagine thousands and millions of people who are continually fed the lie that the banana peel is really not a banana peel ("people get hurt"). “Are you sure it is a peel? Is it possible that you do not have it right? Are you sure the information is valid? Can you be sure it is not a pomegranate instead of what you think you see?” These types of questions are legion.

Imagine if this scenario is continually fed into the psyche of certain types of personalities or souls if you will. Imagine how propaganda can defunct some people’s ability to “rightly divide the word of truth” (2Tim 2:15) if they ever had the ability in the first place. The latter would be very sad indeed. That would mean that the right way was known yet forsaken for the sake of mammon of some sort, mammon or love or admiration – these are also mammon if I, for example, see them as self-preservation or serving the personal self selfishly with no thought of the well-being of others. That is the pity. To know what is right and refuse to do it, is sinful. What is sin theologically or philosophically? I found a deep thought in the above quote about sin.

 I suggest this article by Skip Moen (September 2010) shows sin as what humans do for or against the better angel nature, which we are born with; the other side of this coin is that of being “altogether born in sin” and “iniquity.”  I suggest here that this appeals to knowing what the right thing to do is yet refusing to do it, is sin – as the verb; on the other hand, I fully understand what it means and its application as a noun. That is what inspired me about this commercial. In all things, life is a progression or regression – from light (right thought) to darkness (error, confusion, deceit, etc.). It is a choice to progress – or regress, but it is still a choice until we make the ultimate choice; then it is “Not my will…” when choice becomes internalized when we no longer struggle in the war between the right and wrong thing to do, sometimes called the “Will to Good.” By personal experience, I know this to be true in my continual progress toward the light.

Let Us Run and Psalm Ninety One

Let Us Run and Psalm Ninety One

Master and Lord!

It’s time to run again,

I need you to help me run

Help me find my place

Under the Sun,

Eons ago you helped

Me cross the world Chasm

In one stride!

First, you helped me retrieve

The Stone that was in it.

The Chasm is behind me,

The race is not – I’m still in it,

Once again, seeing you beside

Me, ready to show me how

To sprint again,

I’m never afraid. I can run

In the Spirit and actualize

It on my Earth-Mother.

Help me to find my place under

The Sun that you have sanctioned,

Hallowed for Me. When I run,

I will find it because you are the

Guide and the Spirit in my

Holy feet! Let’s run on.

My dad used to say to

You when he needed help in his

Tedious race: “Okay Jesus, let’s ....”

Now, Lord, let us run, and

Let us find my place that you

Have already covered with your

Feathers, and under those Wings I

Will trust as my safe house,

My refuge – When we find it.

Lord, let us run! Amen. OM

Created by Mary Handy Moore

(Under Psalm 91)

October 11, 2014

All things working together: Building and burning bridges

(Luke 14:28-30 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not

 sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish 

it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to

finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, 'This man began to

build and was not able to finish.')

When we build & cross bridges that are strong and stable,

We should not unwisely choose to tamper with the cables,

When we find all things, truths and lies, laid out on the table,

We find that to cross a broken bridge no one is able.

~~ Mary Handy Moore, 12-16-13