a qwiet coupla days recovery.. or sending to sleep in the slump.... the weather... trying trying and not doing what? today is just plain old gloomy tuesday.... all day been a little irritated... raring to go and nothing quite been done.... like from a standing point just 3 days previously... having to make a phonecall and then... having to wait for ..... i hate that not getting through .... and still not getting through.... anyway that's tomorrow sorted....
ponderings on a theme... that Jesus theme ... that Matthew theme of Jesus and His people.... i linger with the Zechariah .... the missing shepherd the one that GOD hjas removed.. all that stuff about shepherds.... suddenly there there it is ... GOD removes His shepherd... sooo who would want to be a shepherd? the good shepherd who understands His sheep the good shepherd who understands His GOD... there Jesus removed in person does not remove His Personhood leaving a contact a connection to believe in to follow.... isn't it interesting that Jesus sets so much out after the last supper and before His arrest..
before the crucifixion.... if there were an inevitability about the Resurrection would it not be just as meaningful to have the chat with the disciples in John afterwards one ponders...
it is in the book of Matthew 16:
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.and yet... is there a contradiction here? this notion of building a church and ekklesia on Peter... what does this mean but to install a brand new shepherd system? why would Jesus in Matthew 23 talk of this just me and you and then come to apparently have left a system based on the person... and one who never quite seems to gather the structure of Jesus or even to gather quite the semblance of a relationship with GOD the Father... that Jesus has.... yet we the people believe we understand the one phrase that is apparently not sufficiently important to be in all the Gospels... it seems a little odd actually that if this phrase was meant in the way that we the readers of the bible seem to have understood it to generate and justify the patriarchical system that has such a strong structure tradition and sentiment... we have today... then why would the Gospel of Mark Peter... not more clearly demonstrate this intention?
so what happened? Peter not quite get something? afterall it is far easier to do this heirarchy of the flesh ... where GOD appoints GOD's representative to be completely... the kingpin!... to be to have the stature of Jesus.. and then everyone just flocks around them the ultimate authority... well that appears to be the way that many churches kindof operate... and expect us to operate to this edict... why does this look so rarely right... should like the catholics do we have a pope .... it is just bizarre reading what there is of Peter written in the New Testament... sure anyone who's shadow Heals as he walks by... has got my attention! sure enough! but how does any of this translate..
yesterday i was wayaid by somone from my previous church we chatted it felt very GOD APPOINTMENT they were glum... they have themselves not been in church for some time.... at least regularly.... it's not cos they don't believe but they'ver got a brain and that does not sit comfortably with all that pretenses for .... ok what church would you like for here ... i say to them.. it's a very peaceful place very contmeplative with folks hanging out there to talk to... it was like a buddhist centre.. that's what they had in mind a place to come to recharge refill... i listened and just felt how important this was for them... nobody was going to take this person for a ride tell them what the shoulds were or the should bes.... i was deeply moved by a confessional story about long ago when it suddenly dawned on them they were hurting someone and as soon as they took steps to .... suddenly everything shifted... i like that the story was never quite resolved... but that the person making the move made the difference! that's the level of consciousness that gets somehow well lost by the mindset control folks....
i was late for the prayer meeting... it was great a mix of folks... praying was good... but something feels a little desolate at the minute
GOD BLESS!
Peace and Love,
the use of rock is in Zechariah too ch12
On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
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