God is not orthodox. In the scriptures, God doesn’t punish bad theology. It’s behavior that is the concern. Specifically, behavior towards others.
Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day to all who will receive it!
(I thought I would ramp up my prayers from the cell. My hilarious friend Mike Myers suggested I do this and told me how to do it with my iPhone. This could be a whole new level of fun.)
Drawing this one was a very emotional experience for me.
She is me.
Is she you?
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Socrates believed that we all carried our own wisdom deep within and that it just needed to be coaxed out, usually with a series of questions. He demonstrated this one day on a small boy walking by. He asked him a series of questions, the boy answered, revealing to Socrates’ disciples that he already had the knowledge.
Jesus was no different. What did Jesus usually use in his teaching? Stories. Everyday stories that people already understood. Simple parables… like the one about flowers not worrying about what to wear. Of course! We already knew that. Simple.
There are some who would like you to believe that you are completely dependent upon them for knowledge and wisdom. They would like to keep you sucking at the tit of addiction to teaching. They would like you to believe they have the secret. I know… I’ve been on both sides.
Sophia is discovering, even in the dead of night, that she carries within her a deep and valuable wisdom. She wasn’t allowed to access it or live by it. But now she is going to tap into her wisdom, her namesake, and live it. Fiercely! The many owls, also symbols of wisdom, confirm her conviction.
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These guys are using the bible to hold God hostage. They are using the bible to affirm their own ideas about God, then imposing these ideas on God. Their God is not free, but a god who does everything they believe and say.
Convenient and rampant. But catastrophic.
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I believe we all have a path. It is our life to discover it, explore it and walk it with joy. It is yours and yours alone, undefined and uncontrolled by others. Yours.
But truth… that is another matter. As the great philosopher Krishnamurti said, “Truth is a pathless land.” No one owns it. It belongs to no religion, sect or group or power or people.
The person in this drawing has discovered freedom. It is overwhelming and awesome. Truly.
There are those who will always attempt to modify freedom. In seminary, one of my professors used the illustration of a train: it is only really free when it is on the rails doing its job being a train. But I’m not a train. And neither are you!
You are a living breathing human being free to wander in the garden of delights. Enjoy your freedom!
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The questions have been gathered up and collected in a refugee camp on the outskirts of civilization. Who will release them to live among us, to be loved, and to have an equal voice in our world?
Hear their voice! Release them! Before they become extinct.
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Oh, if only I knew then what I know now!
When I graduated from seminary (I actually did twice with two Master degrees!) I was determined to change the world to my way of thinking. I sincerely wanted to help. When I started pastoring churches, I was certain I would bend them to my will, or, I should say God’s will… which I believed my will represented.
Oh my! I shudder to think.
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My name is David Hayward, and I am the nakedpastor. I am a graffiti artist on the walls of religion.
