~ AdaptingToGrace ~ Eileen Meyer: Unwrap Presence – Celebrate Christ En Masse

Love your article Mr. Meyer I stand with you in your yearning knocking on that door, but somehow it doesn't quite open or it does only a wee bit and for a moment then it closes again and when it's closed I suffer and kind of panic and wonder when and if and how it cane ever open again more fully and completely.

  I think the moot point is How?!!!   It occured to me a long time ago that religions were in a way , no not just control mechanisms at all though they have been used that way - but oft they were attempts like on Sundays / sabbath or whenever in your part of the world - for the muslims it's Friday - to recreate Eden,  paradise.  You didn't have to work you hung out with friends and family dressed in your finest supped and prayed and sung and danced in the evening or read the good book by the fireside. That was how generations lived and survived maybe so they had that one day however harsh and unpalatable and dark life was outside they had that one day in mini heaven.  In the Middle Ages before industrial servitude they had a whole lot more - they had about 100 'holy' days a year !!!

          Now we are in the maw of commerce,  the machine many folk don't hold sabbath , no church or temple just another day in the mall, many people even work that day...we are more and more in the dragon's maw so no wonder we cry for Help because we do need help.  How on earth can humans do it on their own?  not even J could end the Roman oppression of Jerusalem and much to Judas' s eternal disappointmemt no doubt. We are all Judas in a way dissatisfied with God, our messiahs, and masters, and with the seemingly ineffectual strength and power of our own spirits to really make a difference.  Do you know the sign for me the Event has really come ?  When the world will not be slaved to money no more; there will be no more brutal unimaginably rich elite and the rest of us serfs - then and then only will the people be free,

        Al