Parakalein

I imagine the God of love and peace awaiting this first advent.  Since the beginning of time, which God began and marks, God knew the day would come that it would be time, to send his son into the world made for and of God.

He knew as Paul comments in one of his letter that the time was just right.  “In the fullness of time, God sent his son”.  In the fullness of time, at the exact right moment God is present in every moment with love and peace.  God offers us the way to give our hearts rest and peace.  God orders the world to acts of love and kindness.

We forget that every moment is pregnant with the presence of God’s love, every situation is made better when looked at through the lens of peace and love, and all the world will become a better place when we all get the way of grace and embrace that way as the way of life.  It is the Jesus way that is bigger and broader than any ecclesiastical way. 

Lots of religious groups, churches, mosques, synagogues, temples etc declare "their way" as the only way, the best way, or the better way".  It is the way of most to define their unique or special insight on the way and the what that people should believe.  Few if any define "the way" as living in peace and loving all people regardless of anything.  Some would argue: that definition of "the way" is too all inclusive.

Everyone seems to think that the way needs to be a specific or narrowly defined way and that the broad way that leads to destruction is "specific and narrow".

I believe that the narrowly defined way to God is what everyone thinks is right but it is inherently self-serving, self-indulgent and therefore inherently counterproductive.  The narrow way, that few people accept or find because they are busy trying to define their way to God, is really the broadly defined "way of love and peace".  The previously narrowly defined way to God serves tension and contention so itself leads to competition and destruction.  The new narrow way serves what is its core: peace and love.

In the fullness of time, in our day, we can begin defining the narrow way as the way that defines the way to God in more inclusive and coalescing language and breeds the same: love and peace in all for all.