The ramblings, rants, raves, and reveries of a Hippie Christian. Comments about life and the journey of faith at the intersection of the spiritual and material worlds. Welcome Home!
Election season brings special challenges to our already divided and polarized society. We have been told by Jesus to love our enemies. We have a higher calling to accept those we disagree with. How we disagree with each other matters because we can disagree without hating each other. But if we do get angry, Paul says to not let it lead to sin. We are told to be kind with each other, tenderhearted, forgiving each other because we our selves have have had grace extended towards us and have been accepted and forgiven by God.
In the opening scenes of the 1973 movie adaptation of the musical Godspell, John
the Baptist (David Haskell) crossed the Brooklyn Bridge while entering
New York City. The nearly completed Twin Towers are in the background
which were in several scenes of the 1973 movie Godspell.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; If I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, If I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
(Psalm 139:7-12)
Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
The
inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All
Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s.
On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass
which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A
live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be
called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God
or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of
these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there
was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The
Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".
(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)
