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I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.

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Jesus is the Life

Posted by Don Paine

Living from the well of eternal love and peace inside all of us is living the life of Jesus.  Jesus did not live with any conditions of his loving of people.  He loved people regardless of anything about them.  No sin turned his heart away rather invited his open heartedness to be experienced.  This is not God condoning sin and it is also God not condemning the sin or the sinner.  Jesus lived his life in the fullness of unwavering peace inside.  No situation or experience had him "rattled" inside as inside he had "peace that surpassed human understanding".  It made no sense for Jesus to not defend himself, to not revile back or falter in his peace when falsely accused or falsely represented.  Yet today many in churches or who call them selves Christians represent a view of Christ that makes no sense.  That is in fact non-sense.  Jesus makes sense of all that is and shall be as he remains at peace regardless of anything. Similarly he remains unconditionally loving toward all regardless of anything they do or do not do.  Again this is not condoning or condemning but offering the world the first hand experience of of a God whose very image is most notably and noticeably clear.  God loves without condition and without agenda and lives that out in Christ as a model for all of us.  To say we believe in God and live with conditions on out loving and agendas in our theologizing is to embellish the truth of Jesus being the life with error by living differently than he lived.  It is not about ecclesiology or theology but about living in peace and with love form the inside out.  Jesus living, living in us.

Jesus is the life of peace and love for all and Jesus is in in all of us for all of us.  The eternal world of love and peace is the only world that is eternal.

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