tweets to mid January .....

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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. 

The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” 

- Norman Cousins

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i hear:

the sports use it,

economists,sentimentalists, 

media,religious,

courts,do too; 

so,so,so glad,

my Kouros NEVER uses it,

-"..disgraced.."-

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"..... but we had to be merry and rejoice ..... " 

..... Prodigious Dad 

(L15)

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‎.....David Bowie 

on 1 knee @ WembleyStadium, 

speaks the Father's Mystery, 

@ Freddie's memorial concert. ..... 

i Loved it .....

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1st miracle of Jesus 

proclaims the celebration and joy of marriage; 

there was high quality wine and love, 

from His banqueting house .....

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the teetotaler and the drunkard 

make the same mistake; 

they both regard wine 

as a drug rather than a drink. 

- (GKChesterton)

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Per-is-sos(grk) = abundantly (kjv) 

- beyond ordinary; over and above; 

- the enlivening Jesus rescued us to .....

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Soteria(grk)(so-tay-ree-ah) = salvation (kjv) 

- delivered from death; 

- preserved in the Life; 

- place of safety .....

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Sozo(grk)(sode-zo) = save (kjv) 

- rescue; 

- make whole; 

- restore; 

- keep safe; 

- rescued from death; 

- not to perish; 

- restored to original life .....

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..... the eurhythm in charis .....

..... aahhh 

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..... O ... 

the compotation in the Pneuma ....

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..... it is up to mine ... 

..... change to the paradigm .....

..... now is the time ..... 

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more education, 

more alpha-type leaders, 

more laws, 

more systems,

more weapons, 

more religion,  

and we will ..... 

NOT have Heaven on Earth ..

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"the rapture of the sozoed soul 

will flow over 

(torrens voluptatis) 

into the glorified body" 

- (Augustine) 

- drinking the fountain of joy

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"images like play and dance for the highest things 

is a stumbling block to you .. 

but .. 

Joy is the serious business of Heaven." 

- (CSLewis)

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"the problem for devils, pharisees and ascetics 

is that it is God 

who created pleasure and play, ...

[and they are at their most pleasurable],

.... as good things."

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Experience each offering of life 

for what it is;

look for the fun in it,

there might be an adventure 

of unexpected and neglected delight."

..... quidity defined .....

(CSL)

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"Surprised by joy, 

impatient, 

as the wind 

I turned 

to share the transport." 

- W.Wordsworth

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..."But we had to be merry and rejoice"..... 

- Prodigious Dad 

(L15)

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"When I think about Kouros, 

my heart is so full of joy 

that notes dance and leap 

from my pen." 

- (FJ Hadyn)

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Whenever you rejoice and laugh 

from the bottom of your heart, 

Theos loves it ! ..... 

(~Luther)

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"the real cause

[of joyous laughter]

we know not! 

It is of itself disgusting,

and a direct insult to 

realism, dignity and austerity of hell."

-Screwtape

(CSL)

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the parable where the fellow 

buys the whole field 

is not you throwing everything into it - 

that's Jesus laying it down to get ALL .....

i.e. you.

(m13)

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.... I've come a long way since starched shirts ....

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"What is funny about us, 

is that we take ourselves too seriously" 

- Niebuhr

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All that old-order religious peddling has done,

is turn new-order good news of universal Charis,

into the bad news of exclusivity and sad divisions.

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..... To Jesus 

(and thus, the Tri-une), 

THERE ARE NO OUTSIDERS ! .....

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From 1st day to last,

He makes ALL things NEW ..... 

the ekklesia is a sacrament,

a sign,

to the world, 

even in its estrangement, 

that they are just as NEW.

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The ekklesia, 

most emphatically, 

is not a fellowship of 

insiders versus outsiders .....

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Everything He does:

crying in a manger,

teaching lawyers at age 12,

drinkin wi da unwashed,

healing,

dying,

rising,

ascending,

and presencing;

draws ALL

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The Mystery of the Godhead 

is revealed in the humanity of Jesus - 

He is always revealing things,

He's done so,

from the foundation o creation.

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Religionists call "living in grace" 
many names like:

dreamer,

compromiser,

non-team player,

undisciplined,

disloyal,

disappointing,

lazy,

greasy ...... 

hahahe,

if that's what it is;

that's me !

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Jesus, Word Incarnate,

by Whom all things are made,

can't possibly "become" present in anything,

cos he's already intimately, immediately, present.

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..... Desire Revelation .....

...... not transactionalism ......

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The events of the"screenplay" in the Bible,

portrays, 

not improvisations He adds 

to his divine set o tricks 

for dealing with the world;

they're sacraments, 

real presences, 

of His eternal purpose for creation.

(RFC)

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..... He is unutterably Good ..... 

Trust His Reaching out to you 

in His unutterably Good Gift of Charis .....

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God's forgiveness of sins is conditional 

on no works at all,

not even his own.

He saves us by the Mystery 

of his own self-emptying on the cross.

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Divine Fondness that holds us, 

even in our sins, 

extra nihil and extra causas, 

outside nothing and outside our causes. 

(RFC)

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Chavvah (heb), 

Zoe (grk), 

Hava (lat), 

Eve; 

= mother to all living ..... 

a proper name but also a title .....

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At the far end of Christ's irrevocable romance 

with good and evil, 

in the death and resurrection of His Incarnate Word, 

God Himself dies for the "Not Co-seeing" (evil) of His rational creatures,

and rises with His remembrance of evil 

engraved on his Head,

on his Back,

on the palms of his Hands,

in the soles of his Feet, 

in His pierced side .....

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God doesn't need the wicked 

for an example to the righteous;

it's just a bonus 

Jesus gets for liking 
the "being" of everything,

more than its behavior !

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Even in our "not Co-seeing",

our fondness for our own existence,

remains a witness to the divine Fondness 

that holds us extra nihil and extra causas.

(outside nothing and outside causes)

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God likes our "being" no matter what we do with it; 

and that He will never go back on that preference, 

not even in hell. 

(Augustine paraphrased)

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Abolition of evil by mass destruction;

God tried with the flood;

He repented of that course o action,

with a Rainbow that says it won't happen again.

(even tho it started poorly back into religion 

by the sons having different reactions 

to a drunken Noah exposed in his naked maleness)

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God's human creatures are given a "freedom of rational decision", 

where virtue and vice are at least possible;

but where neither are necessary for Him.

(RFC)

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God is certain His Creation will be for free creatures, 

particularly free human creatures, 

bizarrely, even to His own hurt .....

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God's Wisdom is fundamentally inexplicable, 

especially relating to His letting be of good and evil .... 

but it is intriguing, nonetheless ....

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.. Dread filled religions are so ignorant and undiscerning

of the beautiful Will of Jesus,

with their self-invented laws of retribution 

that try to bind people to them  ..

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.. thus, our terror at the "curses" of God 

and our fear of hell,

come only and entirely 

out of the lies we tell ourselves 

and those that dread filled religions make.

.. they're cringing at a god they made up in their own minds;

and compound panic 

by inventing a world that needs lies to support it ..

.. in short they invent religion.

They become their own godawful parents 

and give themselves the willies 

with all the rules and laws they make up ..

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.. Tragicomic Adam and Eve,

fear, not of Elohim, 

fear, not of diablos, 

fear from an abstraction 

they concoct out of thin air in their heads ..

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Adam and Eve; 

post-knowing 
that there is good 
and that there is evil;

did what!? 

feared the Voice of love;

hid from the 
"Sees All",

and thought ill of 
naked innocence.

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oikonomia (grk) = economy,

but translated dispensation (kjv). 

By extension = the legit ways the world plays house (housekeeping).

"Dispensation o Grace" 

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The impetuousness of sex was not ordained by an actuary.

It was instituted by the impetus Fluminis,

by the rush of the River that makes glad the City of God,

by the impetus of God's own Amor Mutuus,

his Mutual Love, his Holy Spirit,

who proceeds from the Father and the Son. 

(RFC)

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... the world, He has already translated into Heaven, 

still lives out it's Hell on Earth ..

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.. In His mysterious love o goodness 

and His even more mysterious tolerance of evil,

He still lets both be, 

because their harmony is in Him.

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 Only Abba Father, 

who holds Truth Itself 
in His Beloved Son, 

actually "gets" truth ....

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Our truths are like puppies, 

we care about them cos we find them delightful, 

not because we understand them ....

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.... (our truths) should appeal more 

to our sense of humour 

than to our sense of our importance.

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"For there was indeed wine at that last Passover, 

and Jesus was no mean winebibber." 

(Capon in "Genesis; the movie")

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Soul of Christ, sanctify me ..... 

Blood of Christ, inebriate me ..... " 

(St.Ignatius of Loyola)

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..... yet nothing to the "not co-seeing" changes in their Earthy experience; 

the sociopaths keep control & the warmongers keep killing .....

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"Tetelestai" 

yells Incarnate Word on the cross of our "not seeing"; 

"it is finished" ..... 

"It is done completely and perfectly" .....

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... All we can do is rest ..... 

or, grow restless, .. 

in His arms of Love. 

(RFC)

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"Every1 of our joinings,

business/pleasure, wisdom/folly etc.

Is a communion by which 

Love, who holds us,

re-iterates never letting us go. 

... Our joinings aren't justified 

by the human affection 

they may or may not achieve,

but in Love, Himself. ... 

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Elohim puts Adam into ekstasin, a trance, 

a standing outside himself,

and fashions a helper (in offering) 

of the same nature as,

but different to him,

from his side.

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adham had relationship to the offering of creation...

and relationship to Elohim, 

in whose image adham was made;

but he had no helper in offering, like him.

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Hope doesn't die last ..... 

Hope lives Forever .....

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"Priestliness; it has its root, of course, 

in the Divine Three-in-One."

(RFC)

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"Priestliness,

its widest sense is the offering up 

of separated individual things into a dance 

that makes them one;

the exaltation of units into unity."

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..... "The Son, 

who offers all things to the Father, 

on the Altar of the Spirit, 

was from the beginning, 

a priest, forever" .....

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..... "All things 

are engaged in a priestly Dance of mutual offering." .....

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"In the endless Rest of the Trinity, 

creation itself rests 

in its own priestly dancing goodness" 

(RFC)

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"The prideful swelling that leads man to ruin, 

is his desire to use his own power; 

and the name of that vice is disobedience." ... 

(Augustine)

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I appreciate human merit 

but it has this bad habit of putting 

the supreme merit of Kouros 

in the outer recesses of one's heart .....

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The tree of the knowledge of good and evil 

isn't a choice between them,

and it's not an obedience test, 

but it is a knowing of them as states of being ...

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God's moving is a "strange work"

that leaves creation free to do anything it likes.

Ours is the "same old same old" war choices 

we've had since Eve ....

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.... Elohim,

mostly, handles good and evil 

by letting both be;

humans try to handle them by control,

manhandling "good" into what we think 

are improvements of it;

by trying to elbow "evil" out of the picture, entirely. 

Our power is plausible and right handed;

God's is mysterious and left handed ...

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The great divide is not between good and evil, 

as such, 

but between two diametrically opposed ways 

of dealing with good and evil ..... 

(RCapon)

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"Ride on! Ride on in majesty ! 

The angel armies of the sky look down 

with sad wond'ring eyes 

to see the approaching Sacrifice"

(1600s hymn)

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"water don't wet people, 

people wet people" .. 

(our chant during a fun water fight) .....

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That westboro baptist group 

is a good example of where 

the religious spirit takes people 

who try to fit O.T. law into a N.T. Grace.

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The Eternal Spirit is so pleased with Her creation of water. 

She uses it to support life,

and as an icon of spiritual vitality wherever She moves.

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if atheists delve into the mysterious,

and speak less than plausible hypotheses,

to explain the world they sense;

i got equal grounds to explain the mystery I experience...

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who cares what it's called;

the date isn't it anyway;

i just luv it when ppl have a joyful spirit to all...

so, happy holiday, joyful festivus, merry christmas to you ...

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the Uncreated Light 

is the Light in this present world 

and in the New Jerusalem .....

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religious intrigue is BLINDING; 

the Alpha and Omega has ALREADY 

brought everyone home;

He took away the fails of the world,

and that's not just to do with the co-operative.

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one's act of belief 

isn't the cause of the Grace that sozos you; 

it simply enables one's enjoyment of the safety, 

already in the Grace of the Incarnate Word .....

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Faith isn't a gadget for saving yourself,

it's a nod to the Incarnate Word Himself.

If you have it,

you are safe;

if you lose it,

or never had it,

you're safe ..... 

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the Mystery 

applies even in our fails,

in our mis-management of the knowing of good and evil,

we've built civilisation of sorts, 

but it certainly isn't New Jerusalem ...

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The Mystery of the Word Incarnate,

always draws to Himself.

He won't force us into His Mystery;

but,

neither will He ever stop attracting us to it.

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..... Luther said 

that redemption 

is God's opus alienum, 

His "strange work", 

the work of His left hand ......

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Grace teaches us that God, 

and only God, 

can handle my sin.

(TrueFaced)

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"Peter ! 

Put up your sword." 

..................

( My strength is completed in weakness.)

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"the Word of God 

does not take good and evil 

or life and death 

as problems to be solved; 

He takes them as 

Mysteries to be embraced." 

(RFC)

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"Here's to the Beginning 

[a principio], 

who holds all of history 

in His Eternal Now.

Cheers ! " 

(RFCapon)

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..... the garden of delight 

as a sacrament 

of the New Jerusalem ..... 

(RF Capon)

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Nota ergo fecit,

non facta cognovit ....

God made things He already knew; 

He didn't need them to be facts in order to know them. 

(Augustine)

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The "3-in-1"

don't wait for things to exist 

in order to know them;

they simply know everything that will be known,

held in the Beloved,

from all Eternity.

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..... and Elohim 

planted a paradise of pleasure 

on the sunrise side of Delight .....

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..... in the spirit of grace and love 

is my only religion free existence .....

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..... joy to see @NITV this 

12 noon on the 12th day of the 12th month 

in the 21st century ..... 

be blessed, people ...

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.. wish they would call it 

"anxieties and manipulations" 

rather than 

"news and current affairs" ..

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Eirene (grk) = peace (kjv); 

means: 

tranquil state of soul 

assured of one's Sozo (Life) in Christ,

and so fearing nothing,

from the happy, content Theiotes.

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ekklesia (grk) translated church (kjv);

primary meaning from 

ek = origin and kaleo = to surname, 

to identify by name (of Theiotes) 

- NOT club with rules!!

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