WITHIN YOU, AS the LEADER that ...

YOU YOURSELF  have to BECOME

Make GOD's KINGDOM & GOD's RIGHTEOUSNESS your first priority in life, then ALL of tomorrow's needs will fall naturally into a place of balance & harmony in all things, for the galactic exploration of consciousness supreme, through the mind.

James Atwell's, 2007 Eucharist Sermon, delivered in Winchester Cathedral in the U.K.
concluded that ...

" THE BIBLE has particular and specific vocabulary which captures the connectedness of things, and  describes a world where our priorities are right, equilibrium is safe, and things are working  harmoniously. 

One is a word we translate as righteousness, but in the Old Testament it really  means ‘right order’.  It is the opposite of disorder and sickness.  There is right order when the appropriate connections are being made and things are properly related.  When Psalm 96, for  instance, says of God ‘He will judge the world with righteousness’, it means that he will sort it out and put it into right order.  It will not be topsy turvy anymore.  He will rescue the poor. He  will vindicate the truth.  Then the standing crops in the field will laugh and sing as the gentle  wind blows down the valley.  

The complementary word to right order is the little word ‘peace’ or ‘shalom’.  

It means universal global peace in the sense of harmony, right relationship,  wholeness. 

When things are rightly ordered they are integrated, healthy and wholesome.  They  work together.  That IS peace. 

‘The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and the little child  shall lead them.’ 

That is why we share the peace at the Eucharist: 
we seek to be a community that models not tranquillity, but rather right relationships.   

The world was created by God in relationship and actions for good or for  evil in one sphere might have quite unexpected and unintended results in another.  It is an insight which was lost and has been recovered in our contemporary environmental awareness.    

When the world is properly a wholesome environment, then in the words of Psalm 85  ‘righteousness and peace will kiss each other’ (Psalm 85 v10).  

That is right order and harmony reign across a complex and unified world.     

But there is one more biblical word to add to this collection to make a trio, it is one final  ingredient if the world is to have a sound ecology.  Beside right order and harmony one must place justice. 

It is used globally in the Old Testament.  Such is the moral nature of the Creator,  that the world’s ecology is not safe unless justice rules.  The ideal king, reflecting the rule of God  himself governs ‘with righteousness and justice’ (Psalm 72:1, Isaiah 9:7).  Without justice our  environment is damaged.  There can be no healthy ecology at the expense of the weak and  vulnerable.  Human moral actions affect the integrity of creation. 

The great words of the prophet  Amos are universal in scope and a prayer for the integrity of our environment:    ‘ Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness (‘right order’) as an everlasting stream.’ "


In other words, DECENCY, MORALITY & LAW must BE acknowledged as integral components of the BIG PICTURE GLOBAL SOLUTION UNDERSTANDING that ...

GOD IS manifest throughout the 

multiverse of parallel universes as ...

LOVE

DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER

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