Thursday, May 15, 2025

Guessing

Paradise is nowhere but life is everywhere. Life is before the beginning and after the ending. Life is beyond definition. Time and existence are somehow circular. Life fits our best description of God and life is a God gift. As it ends, separation from God ends and life begins anew. 

G. Goslaw 

Landers, Ca.

Monday, May 12, 2025

Trust

Faith is otherworldly trust. There are no boxes to check, we are not voting for life comes and goes without rhyme or reason. Trust is permanent. Trust is knowing that no matter what we encounter in this life, good, bad or indifferent, God has our back.

One day soon, the curtain will be raised and we shall all understand. A grand party awaits and nothing can separate us from that joyful future.

Until then, are we listening for the party sounds? For now, are we following the party sounds? For now, do we trust the party sounds?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Beware!

Are you aware?  Is the post 2020 Democrat party the purveyors of the compassion assumed to be a Democrat gift to the people? Is the self-righteous concern for the alien wanderer and the homeless an act of righteous compassion or are you being used by the purveyors of hate to spread their evil?  Borders are not evil; people are evil. All modern Democrats are either evangelical hatemongers or just willfully ignorant or just plain scared.

There is the possibility of evil everywhere and we are all hypocrites so look around, are you aware?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

copyright

Some books, if not a few, have something to say to us. When we find such a book, it makes all the book browsing somehow meaningful. However, no author has it all together, every author is either a reaction in opposition to or a builder upon what has gone before. There is always dribble to be separated out of every good book. 

Complete originality has never happened nor will it.  Yah, but that’s the book we all want most to read.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.     

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Stuff

Our world was abuzz with God talk. There was no media news sourcing, no newspapers, only the latest rumors. Rumors spread across the known world about a missing body, the dead body of the man Jesus, taken down from his death cross and buried. This body is now reported missing. What shall we make of the rumored empty grave?  What is the man on the street to think?

There were spiritual centers but no organized religion. Many opinions flourished and then were challenged. One’s God understanding had become a life and death opinion. Chaos reigned. There were two major combatants, those who believed that the resurrection of the man Jesus was a God event and those who believed that the man Jesus was God, having the same stuff as God and co-eternal with God.

Going into the fourth century after the Jesus event, the 19 years old Emperor Constantine became the supreme God of the disintegrating Holy Roman Empire. There was chaos in his empire and chaos on the streets. There was a cry for unity from all quarters.

Emperor Constantine threw a party for all the spiritual leaders of the day, at his home turf at Nicaea, present day Turkey. Constantine wined and dined the spiritual leaders of the known world for months and then turned to payoffs, bullying and threats. It became clear that no one was leaving until there was an agreement.

This agreement became the First Church Council at Nicaea, 325 A.D. The agreement declared that Jesus was also God and possessing the same stuff as God. The Christian Doctrine of the Trinity of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, was born. Seventeen hundred years later, this is the unquestioned understanding among Christian believers. To claim to be Christian is to accept the conclusion of the First Church Council, (325 A.D.).

Three spiritual leaders would not agree with this doctrinal conclusion. Emperor Constantine banished Arius, the most popular spiritual leader and dissenter. The other two dissenting spiritual leaders were murdered by the emperor.

Make of this what you will. Is it enough to say that God can use evil to accomplish good? 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.       

Monday, May 5, 2025

All

God is not social, only universal. All means all. God embraces all of life, the good, the bad and the ugly. Make all the earthbound qualifiers that may please the folk in the short term, however, don't mess with eternity. The only damnable people are those self-righteous fools who place anyone, regardless of race, religion, kinship  or supposed moral integrity, beyond inclusion in the forthcoming unity of the Godhead. If it works for thee, it works for me. Amen.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

 

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Vision

Human life is always a faith trip, there is no other life for us, no human independence, no faith free zone, we all believe each day in something or someone. To those of us who have come to believe that as humans we are also spiritual beings, a part of living is extending a hand to the spirit world as if to say, “here I am”. The Moses mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome memorializes this inherent and universal human desire. The desire to be noticed by God.

This desire to be noticed by God is at times denied, scoffed at, substituted for or ignored but the desire never quite goes away. We have all been there. The God desire may appear to go away at times like the puddle of water after a rain storm but it has only changed places, returning later from elsewhere. The God desire is as human as imagination is human. We are human spiritual beings because we look to the stars, we look to the beyond. We look beyond ourselves.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.