Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Have You Had Your Epiphany?

The siege of our nation’s Capitol (the first since our mortal enemy, The British, did so in 1814) occurred on the Christian holiday of Epiphany. Other than maintaining my reputation as a religious fanatic, the ancient feeling of epiphany is of particular significance to me in the context of what I have learned about the teaching ministry of Jesus because it was the way of his early followers to express their understanding of “the revelation of God the Son as a human being in Jesus the Christ


What was their epiphany, and what has become of it over the past two millennia? For me, it provides a universal meaning for Christ as Immanuel and confirms that God is us and we are God! I find no more plausible explanation for Life on Earth than God, and my personal epiphany informs me that a fuller understanding is worthy of my continuing exploration. God is not dead. God is not good, bad, nor indifferent, because God simply is.


I cannot remember a time in my life that I haven’t experienced God within, throughout, and as George Harrison might say, without me. We started out with my telling you not to be afraid of the pandemic and what may still arise from it. I have told you that you are never alone because God is with us from the beginning of our lives to their end. What I have told you is a blatant, delusional lie if there is no God. Through these posts, I have tried to establish that God is more than real and that the key is our own personal and unique epiphany through which we experience it for ourselves. It took one-thousand, six-hundred and thirty-seven years after 0 [zero of the Common Era] for Descartes’ epiphany, Cogito, ergo sum, to emerge to human consciousness to which I humbly submit the epiphany of the Christ, Dei puer, as the clarification of God’s message to the whole human population of which we are part.


So, there you have it! I am a child of the same God you are as is every human being on Earth! With the myriad of problems that arise from such a statement, I still find it to be our best hope of survival. Just as every citizen has the constitutional right to vote, every human being has the right to life with liberty and death with dignity because s/he is truly a child of God!


I owe you this explanation of where I’m coming from lest you think I’m weird :-) especially since I’m temporarily turning my attention to my pathetic attempt to incite a global Lovelution! I encourage you to seek your connection with the whole people of God so that all of us can start loving one another as we are loved creating a better tomorrow for our whole world!

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