My True Realities

Scripture says, "Submit yourselves one to another." It also says "submit yourselves to your elders." These are two different statements. The first statement addresses the sovereignty of each human individual, which means that ultimately each person is responsible for his or her own life, and that each person cannot be judged or forced to adapt to another's lifestyle. Each person has every right to make whatever choice they want, and if another person doesn't like it, they have no right to violate that person's sovereignty in order to force compliance with an external theology, set of rules, or expression. The second statement addresses authority, in which a sovereign human may choose to submit a part of their lives to another sovereign human in order to learn from them, receive wisdom and revelation from them, and relate to them in love. This submission to authority should in no way violate sovereignty as it is the choice of the one who submits to su

Each human being ultimately has sovereignty in their own life. Each of us has a place in Yahweh where it is just Him and us. My friend calls it the "universe of two." I call it "I am first." It is important to understand that time did not start with Adam and Eve one day and then move forward in an endless line from there. Time is more like the inhaling and exhaling of the Breath of Yahweh, and therefore there is a place in the universe where each of us was the first created human being due to the fact that each moment IS the Beginning. Don't get all caught up in being confused by the mystical, just go with it. Because if you accept that fact, then you can accept this: At one point in time, only you and Yahweh existed. At one point in time, there was nothing else attached to you. Nobody was above or before you. No one in your lineage had sown things into your family. No one in your church had established an acceptable theology. It was just you and Yahweh togeth

Someone reminded me recently of the verse in Corinthians that talks about how Love keeps no record of wrongs. This is absolutely true! But how do you do this? Let's look deeper! I could choose not to. I could become bitter and angry and start to see the person who hurt me as a bad, untrustworthy person. I could cut them out of my life and disparage them. I could tell others how they've wronged me and how horrible they are as people. This is, of course, not Love. This is a mindset of "that other person is wrong." Wrong is on the record I have of that person. Another option would be that I forget that the times when someone hurt me ever happened. I pretend they were never real. They have no impact or influence on our relationship. This would be counter-productive to my own well-being. I would continue to go to an untrustworthy person over and over again no matter how much they've hurt me and ask them to love, relate to, and honor me no matter how often they'

Sometimes I feel like in society, we roam the Earth in packs, finding safety in numbers as we seek to protect ourselves from anyone who is different from us, from the "other." Whether we group ourselves by race, religion, culture, philosophy, etc, many of us find emotional and psychological security in a tribe of some sort. We find this commonality that we decide is the most important trait of ourselves (or perhaps the one most in need of protection), we find others that have that same trait, and we form an impenetrable group, a tribe. This tribe will only let another in if they have that same trait. Sometimes the tribe is automatically closed to certain people because this trait is something that cannot be changed. Sometimes, though, this tribe touts its openness because anyone can become a member of this tribe... IF they convert, change their philosophy, adapt to a new culture, etc.  Because there is this feeling of safety that comes from being in a tribe, it is har

And this is the gospel, that Yahweh has given us eternal life, and this life is in being His/Her Expression. Each of us, by virtue of the fact that we are alive, are His/Her Expression. The only way to not be His/Her Expression is to not be alive, to not exist. ~1 John 5:11-12 Original: And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. ~1 John 5:11-12 In other words: The Gospel is to remember that you are One in Yahweh, even as Yahshua was. That's what He was trying to tell us all along! You, my dear, do not count it robbery to call yourself equal with God, to say, even as He said, "If you have seen Me, you have seen an Expression of Yahweh." Whatever that Expression is, it is YOUR unique and individual, special and undeniable Expression of the Divine! Yahshua said, "I am the Way, the Truth, the Life. No one goes