Saturday, October 22, 2011

Party time in The Safe Place

".... Home is not a heavenly mansion in the afterlife
but a safe place right in the midst of our anxious world."
Abba and Emanuelle live in me. J14

Jesus has freed "ALL those held in slavery
all their lives by the fear of death." H2
[our entertainment mostly feeds off, and reinforces, this fear].

The gospel of Freedom proclaims that death is an illusion,
a phantom, the bogeyman of little children.
Death is simply a transition into the one experience
worthy of the name Life.

Here is the root of our Joy and Mirth.

"We ought to be celebrating constantly.
We ought to be preoccupied with
parties, banquets, feasts, and merriment.
We ought to give ourselves over
to veritable orgies of Joy because we have been liberated
from the fear of Life and the fear of death.
We ought to attract people to the church quite literally
by the fun there is in being [Abba's children]." - Robert Hotchkins"

from "The Ragamuffin Gospel" by Brennan Manning.

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