I imagined as I walked that the fields were all filled with good soil and every seed was growing naturally and abundantly free of constraints.
There has been centuries of debate about humanity begin essentially good and self-efficient in goodness or essentially bad and needing redemption to be good. What if both are true. There is a seed in us of goodness, kindness, gentleness, faith, patience, perseverance, self-control, peace and love. There is a seed of narcism, anger, hurt, pain, control, constraint, absorption, entitlement and hopelessness.
Thic Naht Hahn a Buddhist wrote, "What seeds are you watering".
Jesus wrote, "What seeds are you sowing"
I ask myself , "today what seeds in you are you watering?" In all of us are many different seeds. The ones that grow and take over are the ones we water and care for.
Paul said, "Some plant, others water, but God is the author of increasing our sense of being and are energy for living!"
About Me
- Don Paine
- 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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