A CHRISTMAS BALLAD

A CHRISTMAS BALLAD

                                                                     by 

                                                       Anthony T. Massimini                                                                                                                          (1954)   

Across the moonlit desert sands

   The mission bells were ringing.

'Twas Christmas Eve and in the night,

   Three happy men were singing.

In coming home from Prairie Town

   They'd seen the Christmas Fair,

And luckily, these cowboys three

   Had won some prizes there.

The first one had a cuckoo clock

   With features quite bizarre;

The second had a pretty doll;

   The third, a green guitar.

Between their carols as they rode

   they spoke of the delight

The prizes that they each had won

   would bring their folks that night.

Then, in the sky they saw a star,

   Its darkness rose and fell;

'Twas the electric emblem

   of the Texas Star Motel.

"Let's stop a while," one cowboy said,

   "We've time and home is near,

Let's join the travelers at the inn

   and drink the season's cheer."

The other two they quick agreed,

   The inn was not too far.

So each one turned his sturdy steed

   and started for the star.

Now at the in, the atmosphere

   was extra warm and bright,

For many people, traveling home,

   had stopped there for the night.

The overjoyed proprietor

   was counting each receipt;

His inn was full, his wine well stocked,

   his happiness, complete.

When through the din a quiet knock

   was heard upon the door.

"Too bad," thought the proprietor,

   "I haven't room for more."   

The door came slowly open;

  A Mexican stepped in;

Behind him softly came his wife;

   Her face was dark and thin.

"Please, Mister," said the Mexican,

  "My wife, she very sick;

Please give her some warm place to stay.

   And get a doctor, quick!"

"Hold on!" said the proprietor,

  "I can't do that for you!"

But then he looked again and said,

   "I'll see what I can do."

"Maria," said the Mexican,

   "Have courage, dear, and pray."

Maria smiled, then bowed her head

  and answered, "Yes, Jose'."

Then back came the proprietor,

   and slowly shook his head,

"The only place to stay," said he,

   "Is outside in the shed."

"God bless you!"  said he Mexican.

   And then the lonely pair

Withdrew to find their resting place

   out in the desert air.

Now by this time, the cowboys three

   were nearing the motel;

Their caroling still rent the air,

    and all was going well.

And as they passed an open shed

   that stood beside a hill,

They saw a light and turned to look;

   The sight there stopped them still.

A man was kneeling down in prayer,

    A woman knelt close by;

And from some hay between the two,

   there came a baby's cry!

The cowboys three, they went to see

    this fascinating sight,

And they remembered vividly 

   that other Holy Night

When Wise Men three came bearing gifts

   across a desert far,

And how they found the Holy Child

   by following a star.

Now they too wished to give some gifts

   to this poor couple's son;    

They wondered what; and then

   they spied the prizes they had won.

The first one gave his cuckoo clock,

   with features quite bizarre;

The second gave his pretty doll;

   The third, his green guitar.

Across the midnight desert sands,

   The mission bells were ringing;
'Twas Christmas eve, and in the night,

   Three happy men were singing.

                             

CHRISTMAS 2019

     The story of Christmas us the greatest story ever told. 

       To fully appreciate Christmas we start with our belief that Eternal, Infinite, Divine Love has been present throughout the universe since the moment of creation 13.8 billion years ago.  The omnipresence of Divinity throughout the universe from its very beginning has a name.  It is "Christ," which means, "The Universe Anointed with Divine Presence."
  
     Jesus was the Christ, the Divinely Anointed Universe, come to earth in the form of a 1st century, male Jew.  Mary, his mother, is exalted because she is truly the Mother of Infinite, Eternal God-with-us in human form.    

     While God is the universal Basis of our faith, Jesus is the global Center of our faith.  When we focus on him here on earth, we see the timeless, universal God in human form.  In his birth and life we directly learn of God's infinite, overflowing love for us.  

     No wonder that when Jesus was born, an entire army of angels sang, "Glory to God in the Highest!"  No wonder that we venerate Mary, who birthed him forth into the world.  No wonder that St. Paul wrote that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth."  (Phil. 2:10)

     In our Catholic, all-embracing understanding, Jesus represents love for everyone on earth without exception.  St. Irenaeus said, "The glory of God is people fully alive."  Jesus showed us how to be fully alive, i.e., by imitating him and showing love for everyone.  He taught that everyone is our brother and sister in Christ.  By loving others, we help them become the fully alive persons that God intends them to be.    

     St. Paul expressed our love for everyone in Jesus, the Christ when he said that in Christ there is not Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all in all. (Col. 3:11).  

     Today we can say that while we rightly recognize the differences among us, by raising ourselves to the higher consciousness of Christ we can say there is not Catholic or Protestant, Muslim or Hindu, etc., not White or Colored, not citizen or immigrant, not right or poor, nor Democrat, Republican or Independent, etc., etc., but there is one justice, peace and love for all without exception.  

      In Jesus' Christmas Love, may we be vessels of peace and good will for all, so that we may all flourish in our blessed humanity and so that his prayer, "Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven" may take even a little step forward.

      In the Universal Love of Christ present with us in Jesus, I wish a very Merry Christmas to all my readers--and to the whole world.

     

      

             





  

       

        

ARE WE AIDING IN THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR AMERICAN SOUL?

   These days we are being challenged to choose the kind of world we want to live in.  We all live in various "worlds," e.g., the world that is our family, community, job, culture, church, ethnicity, political party, etc.  The problem is that we can use our various "worlds" to cut ourselves off from people who are different from us.  To the extent that we diminish our caring for all peoples and the entire earth, we diminish our humanity and our American soul.  "Catholic" means "Universal," or "Whole," so we should take a look at our American Catholic souls .   

   As Catholics we live in a world that is as big as the earth and that embraces everyone and everything on earth, without exception.  We may not like some aspects of our world.  In fact we should not like certain aspects, e.g., selfishness, greed, indifference, crime, religious disdain for "different" people, etc.  And we should agree that anything that puts the different parts of our world against one another, e.g., racism, sexism, political separation instead of compromise, suppression of the poor, etc., is not acceptable.  These negative and sometimes vicious aspects make up the "world" that Jesus said hates us Christians and hates him, and that we must avoid.  (John. 15:18)

   Our Catholic world is a world in which we accept everyone in the all-embracing love of Christ.  Even with all the world's imperfections--and we look to ourselves first to see the log in our own eye (Mt, 7:1)--we live in a world in which we must reach out to everyone.  Obviously we will disagree with some others but we must never permit our disagreements to become hostile separations.  And we must strongly disagree with all those, especially our political, economic and religious leaders, who foment separations and hostility.

   In our Catholic view, God is present throughout the world, and we recognize God's presence in the world as the universal, global Christ-Reality that Jesus was.  In sum, we see the world as the one beautiful Body of Christ.  And the Body of Christ is not to be divided by any hostility. 

   From the very beginning, God gave us dominion over the world, i.e., the responsibility to lovingly care for the earth and its creatures.  (Gen. 1:26)  Our responsibility to care for the earth and its inhabitants is a shining example of our human dignity.  Anything less than wholeness in love, any breaking up of our lives and of the earth into warring divisions corrupts and even destroys the wholeness of love and destroys our humanity and our Christianity.

   One big enemy of wholeness in love is our over-emphasis on individuality.  We must keep clearly in mind that while each of us is a unique individual, we are unique individuals in society.  We do not stand alone outside of society.  Everyone is our brother or sister.  We an only develop our individuality within society.

   Today's physicists help us understand our wholeness in love.  They tell us that the universe is made of consciousness and that we are all expressions of the one, universal consciousness.  We must never forget that we arise out of unity of consciousness and develop ourselves within unity and wholeness of consciousness.  We Catholics see unity and wholeness of consciousness as unity and wholeness in love.  The universe is made of unity and wholeness in love!  

    Sadly, our Catholic view of the wholeness of love is being attacked.  The attack includes the pressures on our family life, the collapse of our politics, the greed of corporations and their disregard for the ecology, and even our schools and universities that over-specialize and thus fail to give our children a wholistic picture of the world and of themselves.  All this leads to the disintegration of our American soul. 

    More sadly, this disintegration is being aided by some of us Catholics who have fallen into the tribal mindset of white privilege, and those who are permitting our political leaders to attack the rule of law and our Constitution.  Some of us are confusing politics with our Catholic faith! 

    In the Spirit and Love of Jesus, the global Christ, our Catholic world knows no bounds.  It is our Catholic vocation and duty to embrace the wholeness of our entire world and to work to bring the creative, healing and world transforming/evolving love of Christ to our nation and as far as possible, to the whole world.  Everyone is our neighbor to be loved and assisted, with special care for the poor, sick, vulnerable and outcast.  The whole world is sacred and to be cherished and protected.  A world that is smaller than a world of love for all the people and creatures of Earth is not acceptable to Christ and should not be acceptable to us.















  

    

















   








       

WHAT COLOR IS THE AMERICAN CHRIST?

     Years ago when I was doing my doctoral studies in Rome I met an American missionary priest who's order ministered in Africa.  One day I said to him, "So, you are going to bring Christ to Africa."  He said, "No.  We don't have to bring Christ to Africa.  He is already there.  And he is black."

     He was of course not referring to the Jewish Jesus, who was not black.  He was referring to the global Christ Reality, who is Divinity present in every person of every color, gender, nationality, creed, social standing, economic standing, or sexual orientation.  In particular, my friend was preparing to minister to the black Christ whom he found in the native Africans.  

     At the Second Vatican Council the Africans made it clear that they indeed had a Black African Christ and a Black African Catholicism.  They had Masses at which they beat drums, chanted in their own language and danced in their own way to express the joy of Africa at having received the Good News of Jesus Christ.  The Council confirmed the validity of Africa's Black Christ, along with the validity of every ethnic expression of Christ throughout the world.

    So we can ask, "What color is the American Christ?"  Given the collapsed condition of our society, many of us would say--even insist--that the American Christ is white.  No!  "Christ" means "The anointed One."  Every individual, every ethnic group is Christ-ed, i.e., anointed with divinity.  So to Catholic eyes, the American Christ is European white, African black, Latino and Mid-eastern brown, Oriental yellow, and Native America red.   All expressions of the American Christ are blessed with equal dignity, respect and the right to strive toward a full life in peace, justice and love.  In the American Christ, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is enjoyed by all!

   Our fallen society requires us to be the everyday mystics that we are, and to act upon what we see with prophetic vigor.  To be a mystic is simply to see what is hidden from the unbeliever's eyes.  Each of us has the mystical gift to open our eyes and see the one sacred humanity that we share with everyone without exception.  With this gift comes the responsibility to never see anyone as an "other" whom we can treat as less than human.  

    Clearly, the victims of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, and elsewhere were our brothers and sisters in Christ.  And not so obviously to too many of us, so are the shooters.  But today's social atmosphere tends to separate us to a dangerous degree.  I am old enough to remember the old neighborhood where my mother knew what I had done wrong before I got home.          

    Today, we are dangerously separated from one another.  We break up the one, sacred body of Christ into lifeless pieces. For example, when ICE took away 680 undocumented immigrants from their families, they inhumanly left little children behind crying in agony.  The photo of the devastated little girl seared our very souls.  Their leader said that ICE is a law enforcement agency, not a social service agency.  If he had recognized the American Christ, he would have said, "ICE is an agency that enforces the law.  But we will not not act until there are people who can take care of the children who will suffer because of what we are about to do."  That of course did not happen, and we were left with a heart-wrenching experience of inhumanity.  At that raid, Christ bled on the Cross and some of our fellow Americans did not care.

   In a very dangerous way, America is now an arid spiritual desert.  Our American brothers and sisters who say they are Christians and who are white supremacists, or those who would attack or even kill a gay person, or who say nothing when immigrant children are pulled from their parent's arms, worship a false Christ, an ugly Christ, a Christ who is dangerous and to be feared.

   This is not a time to be shallow or weak.  We must hear anew the ancient prophet Isiah calling from the desert to, "Prepare the way of the Lord.  Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God." (Is. 40:3)  Centuries later, St. John the Baptist confirmed that Isiah was calling for us to prepare the way for Jesus, the Christ. (Mt. 3:3)

   Today the call is going out again.  Far too many of us have fallen into a swamp of self-serving spiritual shallowness.  It is time to shout, "No!  We will not accept the status quo!"

   It is time for us to repair our torn social fabric so that we can be true neighbors again.  We must rethink and re-pray our severely corrupt politics and economics that are producing ever more profits for the few privileged ones to the deep detriment of the rest of us.  

    It is time to rethink our educational system so that it will graduate truly educated and humanized students who see themselves as Americans committed to cooperating with and caring for their American brothers and sisters even as they compete fairly with one another for prestige and wealth.  It is time to demand in the name of the American Christ of many colors and ethnicities that we have justice for all with special care for the poor, sick, vulnerable and outcast.

   We must awaken to and welcome the American Christ in all his glorious colors and ethnicities. The need is so great that for anyone to call him or herself a Christian and then reject any of our American brothers and sisters in Christ, including legitimate immigrants and refugees, is to work to destroy our society and our country in a most anti-Christian, even hellish way.
   









       












         

REVISITING OUR FAITH

   Sadly, these days many of us our having trouble understanding what our Christian faith is all about.  I'm especially concerned with our fellow Christians who are mistaking their personal political views for expressions of Faith.

   A severely anti-Christian example is coming from our fellow Christians who are aiming their wrath at immigrants with brown skin, while crusading for a return to a time of White privilege.  How could some of us agree with our president who imprisons innocents and tears children out of parents' arms.  How could we refuse to acknowledge that many of these people from countries south of the border are legally seeking asylum from drug corrupted countries?  How could our fellow Christians not see that our president's mistreatment of them is directly from hell?

   Speaking of drugs, how could our American Christian brothers and sisters not see that if there was no market for drugs here in the U. S., the drugs would not be sent here?  How could the People of Jesus Christ fail to see the wooden beam in our own eye? (Mt. 7:3)  How could we forget Jesus Christ and his sacred self-sacrificing love for us and proclaim as our savior, a president whose only motivation is to use people for his own self-aggrandizement.  

   My answer is that too many of us Christians have forgotten what our faith means and how it truly empowers us to act in today's society and culture that we ourselves have helped create.  

   Our faith is not a set of dogmas and moral laws.  These are important but they are only guides to living our faith.  They are not our faith itself.  Our faith may be described as our deep, loving, life-inspiring sense of belonging to God.  Our faith comes to us directly from God, who fills us with divine presence and thus with the life-evolving and life-fulfilling energy of love.

   Contrary to what some of us appear to believe, our faith is not totally identified with our American economic system, politics or culture.   Our faith is intended to influence and enliven and where necessary correct our humanity itself and therefore our educational and economic systems, and our politics and culture.  

   Our faith tells us that God is present and active deep within us, forming, enlivening and empowering us to live a life of reasoned, creative, healing and self-giving love for everyone and everything without exception.

   Our faith is the soul of our life as individuals, families, communities, neighbors, citizens, voters, employees and employers, political leaders, service people, professionals, and all others.

   If our faith had a color it would be blood red.  Today, too many of us are suffering from spiritual anemia.  The greatest enemy of our faith is our superficiality, which moves us to substitute our prejudices, fears and even our anger for our truly human gifts of reason and love.  Without true, red-blooded faith, we easily fall victim to those who incite our basest emotions and mislead us for their own benefit.  It becomes all too easy for our true humanity to be attacked and perverted by self-serving, cowardly government leaders and by salacious radio, TV and Internet commentators.  If asked, some of them would say that they are Christians, while they daily spew hate-filled, self serving propaganda to  willing viewers and listeners.

   The sad, even tragic result of our superficiality is that too many of us Christians are so caught up in our own fears and hatred that we are not qualified to be the prophetic people that God is so urgently calling us to be.

    Prophets do not fall for the superficial and squalid features of our society.  They do not live and act at the periphery of our society and culture but immerse themselves in or society and culture and speak and act from the living depth of our society and culture where Divinity is clearest and most powerful.  From within their deep sense of  loving belongingness to Divinity and to the everyday world, they speak not in religious language, which today's society simply disregards (and helps explain why today's clerical churches are losing members), but in the everyday language of today's education, politics, economics, labor, families, professions, etc. in a way that we can all understand,  relate to and act upon.

   They know with great clarity the kind of people we should vote for, the kind that should have corporate and economic power, the kind who should be teaching in our schools, the kind who make the truest and most loving families, etc., etc.  And they know what all these leaders must do to truly enhance our beautiful humanity. 

   But if we live a shallow faith we will not understand the prophets and not heed their saving guidance.  We will allow loveless people of narrow minds and self-serving  hatred to have power over us.   As the People of Christ we should know better.  In truth, we must know better. 

   Finally, we Christians must not be naive.  In a society infected with all kinds of wolves, we must be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. (Mt. 10:16).  With true, deep, strong, living faith, and only with such faith, as humble prophets, we will revisit our faith and Christianity itself, and shrewdly and simply recognize and reject those who are deceiving us as we work together with all people of good will for the good of all people and the environment without exception, and with special preference for the poor, sick, vulnerable and outcast.    

   


















        







     












     

EASTER WAS INEVITABLE

    It is totally understandable that Jesus' resurrection was a surprise to his first followers.  How else could a frightened, despondent little group of apostles and disciples have felt when they realized that Jesus had conquered death itself?    

    Throughout the centuries, we have come to better understand what happened that first Easter morning.  The inevitability of Easter has become clear.  Easter has been there all the time.

   Let's go back--way back.  At the first moment of creation the newborn universe was dark and chaotic.  Immediately, the Spirit blew over the dark chaos and in a flash, there was light.  The newly evolving universe began moving from darkness to light, from death to resurrection.  Easter had begun.

   Note how the Bible describes the days of creation in terms of movement from darkness to light, from death to resurrection:  "and the evening and morning was the first, second, etc., day."  To the ancient Hebrews, darkness denoted chaos, and light denoted cosmos:  order and beauty.  (We use the word "cosmos" in our word, "cosmetics.")  Every day is a movement from death to resurrection, as is the movement from winter to spring.

   The ancient story of the flood is a story of stormy darkness and the resurrection of saving light.  So is the story of Jonah and the whale.  And especially, we have the starry night of Christmas, of Jesus' birth that made the bright morning of Easter inevitable.

   Easter is our guide from hopelessness and despair, even in the world's darkest moments.  In the Easter grace of Jesus' resurrection, we are able to evolve from our birth in imperfection, through our downfalls, to our own and society's constant resurrection in the loving arms of Divine Love.   

   Even now, in our space/time darkness, we already live in Easter.  To put it more clearly, even now, the eternal glory of Easter lives within us.  To those of us who have been blessed with eyes to see, the world, in fact the entire universe, is brightly alive with God's indwelling  presence.  Each Easter Sunday calls us anew to rejoice in Jesus' resurrected life and to work ever more diligently, one step at a time according to our talents and opportunities, to help make his wondrous, saving Spirit become more effective in ourselves, our families, communities, nations and the whole world.

   At Easter time, we look into the world, and see the glorious joy of eternal life, thanks to Jesus' resurrection, within all the peoples of the world, no matter how deeply it may be hidden.  In all of nature and in all the universe, we proclaim the Risen Jesus who is our eternal Truth and Life.





           


  

LENT: FASTING FROM CHOCOLATE, AND...

   Many of us give up chocolate for Lent.  This is a good traditional way to make a little sacrifice in preparation for Easter Sunday. Then, when we celebrate Jesus's resurrection from the dead we will also celebrate our own rising from our sins and weakness in the grace of the risen Jesus.  I would like to call our attention especially to the weakness of indifference to those we should care about every day.

   First a note:  Up to now, this blog has been read by people from 96 countries.  That's half the countries in the world!  My sincere thanks to everyone of you.  You elate my spirit every day!  My thoughts in this post will apply particularly to my American culture, with the trust that those of you around the world will apply what I suggest to your own culture.

   How about adding to our chocolate "sacrifice" by reaching out to a Muslim woman in the supermarket and saying to her that she enriches our country and our American soul, and wishing her peace?  How about smiling at a couple who have a baby or young children and wishing God's blessing upon them.  How about smiling at young people, no matter how they are dressed, and telling them they are beautiful both externally and internally, and wishing them great success in their studies and lives?

   How about getting actively involved in our government by contacting our legislators and saying strongly and respectfully that we fully expect them to vote for justice and peace for all people, with a special option for the poor, sick, vulnerable and outcast.  If they have acted well, let us thank them and encourage them to continue doing positive things for all the people.  If they have acted against justice and peace for all, let's tell them strongly and respectfully that they are not doing what they were elected to do. If they are afraid of not being reelected, let's ask them what good they expect to do while in office.

   And let us point out to our legislators that there are far too many people around the world who cannot approach their political leaders as we do, and urge them to do all that they can to bring such blessed freedom to all others.

   Many of us Americans have friends all over the country and even abroad but don't really know our neighbors.  To be Catholic is to be committed to wholeness.  A good Lenten "sacrifice" is to get to know our neighbors better, especially those who are needy.  And to work to make our neighborhood more friendly, and where necessary, more safe.  

   We Catholics are the People of Christ, our Savior who showed us how we should live our lives every day of the year.  So along with giving up chocolate for Lent, let us use Lent to remember anew that we are Catholics every day and every season of the year. 


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2019 EXPANDING OUR CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS

    Imagine what Jesus was conscious of when he looked around at the world.

   Being divine, he saw the world the way God sees it.  Being human, he saw the world the way we see it--or ought to see it.  He saw divinity present within everyone and everything.  Divinity-within-the-world is the Christ Reality, or the Christ.  So in a special way, Jesus, the Christ, saw himself.  And he saw everyone and everything as images of him.

    In the glow of the global Christ Reality, Jesus saw the world filled with creative, healing, and world-transforming, world-evolving love.  He saw love flowing into everyone in the form of  their vocations, i.e., in the form of their personal talents, opportunities and possibilities for moving the world forward toward becoming the Kingdom of God on earth.

   He saw wondrous possibilities in every child:  in their loving family, their good school, their job and career possibilities, their social possibilities, etc.  He saw the same possibilities in every adult.  Today, he looks at us and weeps for the way our possibilities are being curtailed or even destroyed by a disintegrating family life, poor education, dissipating social life, lack of  leadership, greedy handling of the economy, indifference toward climate change, etc.  He cries over those who have fallen into the despair of addiction and crime.  He sees in everyone and everything what could be if we cooperated with the grace he is giving us every moment, and the strength to act upon our grace.  The world can be changed, however little, for the better.  But God will not do it without us.    God will do it only with us.  

   In his life on earth, Jesus put his love-consciousness into action.  Everything he did--every lesson he taught, every blessing he gave, every person he fed, ever person he healed, every opportunity he had, big or small, he took advantage of.  All were acts of his overflowing love.

   What he did was his way of teaching us what we can and should do, in our own way, throughout our lives.  So now is a good time to resolve to work to develop ever more clearly the love-consciousness that we have from him.  We can resolve to relate to everyone we know and meet within our consciousness of love.

   With our Christ-consciousness, for example, we can figure out how to relate to family members with whom we disagree, to be calm and clear with our fellow citizens who strongly oppose us in today's dehumanized political swamp, and to treat with love all people who are poor, sick, vulnerable or outcast.  We must also do our part to understand those who want to harm us and our country.  In sum, we must put on the mind of Christ.  With Jesus as our guide, we must get actively engaged in our family and society to bring the creative, healing and world-transforming consciousness of love wherever we are able.

   Leadership, of course, is difficult.  Jesus suffered opposition from some of his own people and worst of all from the Romans, who crucified him for the political "crime" of being "King of the Jews."   Pilate in his spiritual blindness could not see that Jesus was King of All Kings.

   As I said above, the great problems of our day are at heart, spiritual problems, problems with our lack of Christ's love-consciousness.  So many of our leaders in politics, religion, business, education, science, entertainment, etc., are prone to shrink their consciousness from the bright fullness of order, peace, love and the true joy of life to the puny humanly destructive, dark emptiness of greed and uncaring.  In Christ we cannot permit our politics, education, corporations, etc., to be inhuman.  In Christ we can and must work to make the world more human                  

   The least we can do is to question our political, religious, education and professional leaders and ask them to explain what they are doing to help elevate our humanity and where necessary, humbly work to correct its faults through knowledge, peace and love.  Those of us who are qualified should offer insights as to how to expand the love-consciousness of those in the various fields, so they can bring greater understanding, order, peace and love to their fields.  Doctors treat people, not medical cases; politicians serve the people, not their own careers; teachers teach people, not math, science, etc., corporations serve the people while making a fair profit and protecting the environment, etc.  Those in charge may and often will resist.  We must call upon our strength in Christ and persevere in working to bring more order, truth, peace and love to our society.  In this way we build up the Kingdom of God on earth, which is within us now and needs to be nourished and constantly built up.    

   May 2019 be a year when we expand and clarify our own Christ-consciousness so we can bring ever more love-consciousness to our society and grow in love and charity that will be with us here and in eternity.

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