Another 584 Million Miles Around The Sun

I just completed another lap around the sun and I'm still hanging on for dear life.

I haven't traveled much but I have covered nearly 38 billion miles circling the sun in my lifetime.

On a larger scale, since my birth our solar system has traveled over 292 billion miles around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

I should be eligible for some serious airline perks by now but all I seem to be getting are more aches and pains. Well, today I woke up on the sunny side of the lawn again and any day that you wake up on the sunny side of the lawn is a good day!

 

"Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?" ~Jesus

 

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Map segment retrieved from the Library of Congress at: Map of the square and stationary earth

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Rock Mass 07-04-2021

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the Month

Rock Mass for Sunday July 4, 2021

 

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean."

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." ~Jesus (Matthew 23:23-28)

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"However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says: 'Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. What house will you build for Me? says the LORD, Or what is the place of My rest? Has My hand not made all these things?'" ~Saint Stephen (Acts 7:48-50)

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"Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" ~The Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 3:16)

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“The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen. No one will say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ because the Kingdom of God is within you.” ~Jesus (Luke 14:20-21)

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“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.” ~Saint Peter (1 Peter 2:9-10)

 

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)

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Rock Mass 06-06-2021

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the Month

 

Rock Mass for June 6, 2021

 

 

 

LOVE
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
(1John 4:7&8)

If anyone says, "I love God", yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
(1John 4:20&21)

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
(Matthew 22:36-40)

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
-JESUS (John 13:34&35)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
(Galatians 5:22&23)

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)


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Pray For Middle-East Peace

 

Salaam, Shalom, Peace

 

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass - 05-02-2021

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the Month

 

Rock Mass for May 2, 2021

 

 

 

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

"Blessed are the peacemakers,

for they shall be called the children of God."
~Jesus (Matthew 5:9)

"...Seek peace and pursue it!"
Psalm 34:14

 

 

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)


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Rock Mass - Special Earth Day Edition

 

Rock Mass - Special Earth Day Edition 2021

 

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it. (Genesis 2:15)
 

 

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)


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Christian Biker Gang?

 

 

Sometimes there are people out there who just don't believe that a Christian can be a Hippie. Well, just watch this video about Christian Bikers and you will see the similarities. They left behind the things that separated them from God and joined a Christian biker club... it brought a tear to my eyes. These guys are the real deal, remember that God looks at the heart!

Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

(Romans 14:4)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass Easter Sunday 04-04-2021

 

Rock Mass Easter Sunday

Rock Mass - Easter Sunday

 

While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” (Luke 24:4-7)

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)

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Be Ye Kind

 

“Non-Violence” sculpture by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd

I think that we love our guns way too much. We love how they make us feel. We love the power and the sense of superiority that they give us.

We even love how they feel in our hands. There is this sensual, almost phallic nature about guns that secretly seduces us, inexplicably drawing us to them.

We have grown to rely on guns for our protection and as a means of settling disputes that we just can't seem to find other solutions for. And we keep dying because of it. Our children are dying, our neighbors are dying, innocent people are dying. Why?

I wish that there was an easy answer, but there isn't. Shooting people seems to be the easy answer because if talking to those you have a problem with were easy we wouldn't keep seeing news stories about mass shootings.

In the fourth chapter of Apostle Paul's letter the the believers in Ephesus he gives some practical advice about living in community and getting along with others. Here is part of what the Apostle wrote that I feel is a good starting point for getting along with those around us without resorting to violence.

"If you become angry, do not let your anger lead you into sin, and do not stay angry all day...

...Instead, be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ." (Ephesians 4:26 & 32)

 

Here is a link to an earlier blog post of mine about gun violence: We Have Become a Cult of Death

 

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Love Is The Fulfillment Of The Law

Love does no harm

to a neighbor;

therefore love is the fulfillment

of the law.

(Romans 13:10)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 03-06-2021

 

Rock Mass 03-06-2021

 

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month.

 

Rock Mass for Sunday March 6, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jesus said to them, “But, whom do you say that I am?”

Then Simon Peter answered, and said, “You are the Christ; the Son of the living God.”

And Jesus answered, and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon, the son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father Who is in Heaven."

(Matthew 16:15-17)

 

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)

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Who Would Jesus Bomb?

 Here is my adaptation of Christus am Olberg by Josef Untersberger

 

 "Blessed are the peace makers,

for they shall be called the children of God" ~Jesus

 

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)