OUR WORLD WITHIN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

We seek to be a better person...to be kinder, more thoughtful, loving. Only our imagination can only picture what we already know to be kinder, more thoughtful, loving. So we try for that, fail, try harder, fail, try harder...for way too long. 

Then comes a new choice: Give up and continue living in the want-to world of our reasoning mind, or give up and crash and burn...to be raised out of the ashes of our defeat into a new dimension where we learn the kingdom of God is almost the opposite of what our reasoning mind can envision.

In our little personal world within the kingdom of the God of our understanding, our worst fear becomes our greatest gift, our enemy...hey, she's kinda nice, our I-will-not-no-never becomes here's me, helping out, giving freely and welcoming the opportunity not to get but to give! 

God's world cannot be pre-pictured, we can only live it in the moment, one day at a time. With the grace of gratitude.

The phrase “kingdom of God”... then, means almost the opposite of what an American like me might assume, * * * * *  God’s kingdom turns all associations upside down. Order becomes opportunity, stability melts into movement and change, status-quo government gives way to a revolution of community and neighborliness, policy bows to love, domination descends to service and sacrifice, control morphs into influence and inspiration, and vengeance and threats are transformed into forgiveness and blessing.  [Brian McLaren, "Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope" from Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," November 20, 2020] 

Thank you.