No Scarlet Letter

Posted on January 3, 2018 by ehurst

Maybe you remember the story in John 4, where Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman from Sychar. He could read her very soul, and noted that she had a very unstable romantic past. We know very little of the historical context for Samaritans, but what we do know is her situation was likely quite rare. First, the Samaritans still clung to tightly controlled betrothal and marriage arrangements. In order to call it “marriage” it would have required priestly involvement. Despite being different from their Jewish counterparts, we see no evidence at all of slouching in regard to marriage rituals. We can safely speculate that she was “given” to five different men, divorced from them, and was at that point shacking up yet another.

Thus, she was likely not permitted to socialize with the other Samaritan women, and came to draw water at that time of day when no other woman was around. In other words, it’s not that Samaritan women were loose, but this one apparently was, and no one had yet bothered to actively prosecute her under Samaritan law.

She was getting off easily compared to the adulteress in John 8. Did Jesus change the Law in letting her go? No, the Jewish nation had already so thoroughly abandoned the Law that it no longer applied. There was no Covenant community, no shalom to protect. The men who brought this woman to Jesus for judgment had no grounds for prosecution. The Law of Moses had not been their national law in a very long time; in its place stood a mass of Hellenized reasonings about what God should have said, in their opinions.

But if the Covenant of Moses was dead, there were other applicable covenants. The one that mattered at that point was the ancient Biblical Law, personified in the Son of God. In mercy, He released her to her own penitence.

We at Radix Fidem honor that Biblical Law. We accept “scarlet women” and men on the grounds of penitence and embracing our covenant. Our covenant presumes a heart-led life. Sure, you could fake it. You might even fool us all, but you cannot fool God. The only advantage of joining our covenant is seeking fellowship on the grounds that nobody is trying to fool God. You won’t get much from trying to play games.

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On a related note, someone asked me about traditional rituals. For example, I’ve already said we promote the Lord’s Supper, sharing the cup and bread. I recommend doing it at least once a year within a heart-led communion. That might mean doing it alone for some of you, so it’s up to your own conscience.

The same with baptism. Folks, this marks your entrance into a penitent life; it’s not a ritual requirement for membership in our covenant. It’s recommended, and any current member of Radix Fidem can conduct the ceremony. I’ll offer some advice on how to formulate things, but we have yet to gain a priest who would have any real authority in such things. Ideally, your local parish would have a priestly pastor, as well, but it seems to me we are still a ways from that.

Still, there’s nothing wrong with contemplating such things now, since at least some of you will find this thing exploding into existence in the future. You’ll need to ask some questions and consider how you want to do things. My bias is toward informality, but that doesn’t work for everyone. I’m unwilling at this point to rule on such things. I’m trained and competent for my own purposes here as local elder (alongside being senior elder on the virtual parish), but I’m not called to make such decisions for you. There’s a lot of territory here with marriages and a host of other social rituals. Feel free to ask questions here or on the forum.

Let’s agree to pray for someone called and committed to the pastoral role.

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There Be Days Like This

Posted on January 2, 2018 by ehurst

My apartment is heated via forced air; it’s cheap but it’s very hard on my allergies. Yesterday they were awakened; last night I was plagued. Today I’m feeling pretty rough with symptoms of a head-cold. But since it’s allergies, I can still do stuff, just not a lot. It means flushing the sinus cavities at least twice daily until the swelling and sensitivity goes down. Right now my sinus cavities hurt a lot.

The cold weather has been rough on our car. It seems the battery ground connection has slowly degraded, so the battery wasn’t getting the best charge. When this cold hit, the battery wimped out on us. It seemed like a good time to get one of those jump-starter boxes you can buy. So Sunday I rode my bike a couple of miles in the cold to Sam’s Club and got their Stanley Fatmax. It was a bit heavy, but I managed it on my rear rack okay. Once it got all charged up, and we scrubbed up the connectors on the battery, it jumps just fine. It may take a day or two of driving to bring the battery back up to it’s former glory. I’m going to replace the ground clamp when it warms up just a little bit more above freezing.

You can bet that riding in 20°F meant bundling up real good. I normally don’t even try it unless I have something important the makes it necessary. It’s a trick to break the wind without wearing too much and getting sweaty. A little sweat is necessary, especially under my face cover. I had a really great face cover I made from leather back when I owned a motorcycle, but it got wet in storage and mildewed. That was years ago when you could still buy sheets of finished shoe leather cheaply. Now it’s just too expensive in these parts.

We’ve had a few folks sign up at the forum, but not much chatter yet. It’s okay to just socialize there, folks. I’m checking it several times a day, and I’m sure others will if it starts getting a little action there. Let’s get to know each other.

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Covenant Book Published

Posted on January 1, 2018 by ehurst

Now available at Smashwords: Radix Fidem: A Covenant of Faith.

You can download it at the link for free in various formats. I also have my own simplifed HTML file, plain text format, PDF and the original Word and Libre Writer formats. I’ll try to get the HTML up on the static website in a few days.

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Radix Fidem Forum Is Live

Posted on January 1, 2018 by ehurst

Happy New Year!

Now is the time; Jay says our forum is up and running. Just click the link to the right under “blogroll”.

You will need to register and confirm your email address. This is your chance to communicate and fellowship without having to go through our blogs. We still moderate the posts there, but you can initiate your own content without waiting for us to mention something on your mind or heart. I recommend you start with the “Introduce Yourself” forum and so we can get to you know you better.

The image you see here is the forum logo, but it is also the first step in our “branding” — this is the symbol that represents who we are as a religion. In the future, you may see this without the words underneath.

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Do Not Submit to Folly

Posted on December 31, 2017 by ehurst

This is an age when people can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s just too easy to oversimplify things for the sake of entertainment than to really deal with the issue in a full context.

For example, I’m chunky and it doesn’t bother me in the least. All the spouting about how it’s bad for you and dire predictions of health problems is just the same old Nanny State nonsense. That whole ethic of nagging presumes an ownership of the individual, as if they were nothing more than an economic resource owned by the State (“society”). The real message is that the State cannot get as much mileage from your carcase if you aren’t svelte and sexy. So there’s a whole weight-control industry in which you are socially obliged to invest.

And just to make sure other, less formal industries aren’t neglected, we have this whole anti-fat-shaming show to go with it. That gives rise to a competing business trend based on snowflaking. It’s really just two halves of the same business, with the same group of investors making money from both sides.

Fat shaming is not a crime. You are entitled to your opinion. The problem is to keep in mind that other people are equally entitled to their opposing opinion. More importantly, how you go about expressing your opinion says way more about you than it says about your target. But of course, we’ve made an entire industry based on making oneself look stupid, too. Yeah, most of what passes for common social wisdom on all competing sides is really a matter of greed behind the marketing.

If you walk the heart-led way, you will of necessity make some decisions that require sacrifice. What you sacrifice is between you and God. This calling is war against common social wisdom in all its forms. That in itself is a sacrifice of facing internal conflict until you can get a grip on what really matters to you in your divine calling.

For me, paying the long-term price for being chunky is a sacrifice to God. Nothing in my convictions requires me to invest much time or effort beyond a certain point. There are boundary lines. It was fine a decade ago when the Lord commanded me to get as fit as I could, and with some experimentation, I got fairly trim.

The flash was intentional, a symptom of my ornery nature.

But then there was that bike crash that shattered my kneecap, and somehow in the mix of events I manifested episodic ventricular tachycardia. The treatment includes taking a medication that offers weight-gain as a side-effect. Granted, in the odd mix of things that I do with this body, not all of the weight-gain was fat, but at 5’10” and about 250 pounds (1.78m & 113kg) there is some extra blubber around my midriff. It’s not what I want, but changing it is not a high priority in the broad scheme of things.

I don’t have time to explain it to everyone, so I don’t bother. I don’t have to justify it before God; my conscience is clean. Nobody else really matters. Neither shaming no reveling, I just take it in stride. I’m not going to wade into the social debate, because the whole society is on the wrong foundation. I want no eager allies from the “body acceptance” movement and fitness scolds don’t have to live with my situation. It means shopping more at the thrift stores for big man clothes, but it has not hindered biking and hiking, or my other workouts, at all.

I have to careful about chairs. Did you know that all ladders you buy these days have a weight limit? Most of them are designed to handle less than 225 pounds; I’ve had at least one bend under my bulk. I tested a new knee brace, but it spontaneously rolled down off my thigh. I’m not going to go on a campaign demanding accommodations for my size. I’ll take what my Father provides for His mission and calling on my life.

By the same token, I’ll applaud your efforts to take whatever path God calls you to, because the one greatest victory of all is knowing and embracing your mission from God.

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Exodus of the Soul

Posted on December 31, 2017 by ehurst

This is not an exodus where we all leave the country. This is an internal exodus; we depart from this materialistic worldview and embrace the otherworldly approach to life. The America we’ve known will cease to hold us in bondage.

There will be many plagues falling on that materialistic worldview. Some of them will affect us simply because we are here among these morally blind people. But as things get rougher, God will distinguish between His people and the rest. The worst of the plagues — the madness, in particular — will not fall on us.

They won’t chase us into the Reed Sea, but there may be a sea of red — plenty of bloodshed. It will be very hard to watch, so brace yourself. But there’s little we can do at this point unless the people individually manage to see that we are not caught in the backwash. We must stand above the political fray. Observe and study it; understand it, but don’t place your sympathy with any part of it. This thing has festered for too long, and some folks will simply have to die. There is no possible way to heal the political wounds and go forward as one nation, because it never was under God.

Don’t let yourself be deceived by an affinity for one part or another of the big picture. Everything you see is based on rejecting God and His revelation. If we do not cling to that revelation of Biblical Law, then we are one of them, and will be under His wrath. Biblical Law is the key to surviving and staying sane. It’s standing in the shalom of Christ that will make it possible to survive the storms.

I’m praying for you. My prayers mean little if you aren’t under our covenant. I’m praying for His heart-led people to see the truth, to recognize the madness and escape. I’m praying that our Lord will grant signs and wonders, but in this day and age, the greatest miracle is simply staying sane. I’m offering my newest book on the covenant as a way to organize our thoughts on what to say to people who will inevitably ask how we manage in the chaos.

Given the peculiar situation of our world today, no one has to travel across the world to share this truth. We have the Internet to shorten the distance. But we also don’t have a public square in which to preach, a commonly acceptable means of broadcasting our message without making ourselves look like the same thing we are trying to leave behind. What’s left is that we await the hand of God. His wrath will distinguish us, make us stand out. But it’s appropriate that we pray for God to grant publicity to His truth, so that people will know we are here, that this is something very different, indeed.

Be a shining light of God’s truth.

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Sermon on the Mount 13

Posted on December 30, 2017 by ehurst

Serving Mammon 6:19-24

This one makes no reference to the Talmud, and only an indirect reference to the Old Testament. Jesus equates evil to being double-minded, in the sense of unfaithful to God. Righteousness is indicated with the Greek word haplous, meaning “single” in the sense of fully integrated. The word appears to be related to the word pleko (“braided”) to indicate something made from multiple strands and united into a single thing. When the heart rules over the intellect, this is what we would expect: a living soul unified in purpose and commitment.

Jesus begins with a blatant statement in favor of otherworldliness. Don’t get entangled with worldly material values, because there is no way you can really keep those things secure. By implication, they cannot keep you safe; you cannot trust them. The most precious things in this world will fail you. They cannot buy you shalom and you cannot take them to Heaven.

Rather, you should put your trust in mystical treasures, the ultimate value of things that belong to the Spirit Realm. When your most valuable treasure is the heart-led awareness of God’s divine moral character, nothing else really matters. You can simply let that other stuff go.

Look at your life; what does it say about you? What really matters to you? That’s where your heart — your faith and commitment — is anchored. Jesus refers to the eye as a symbol of your perception and discernment. If your eye is properly integrated and fully focused on God’s revelation of truth, then your whole life will be filled with glorious light from that truth. If your eye is evil — your perception is perverted and diseased — then your life is filled with dark deceptions. You’ll be chasing after everything that most of humanity values, and you’ll never see the truth.

He nails it down in no uncertain terms: The ancient idea that you can properly honor a pantheon of deities is false. In very real terms, we will inevitably serve one or another. The Old Testament criticizes the idea of bouncing back and forth between two or more conflicting commitments. You cannot pretend loyalty to Jehovah in Heaven if your life’s devotion is tied up in the ephemeral treasures of this realm of existence. You might was well admit to serving the satirical idol, Mammon. Everyone around you already knows where your heart is. And if your soul is anchored here in the fallen realm, you have no place in Heaven, and no place in the Kingdom of the Messiah.

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Covenant Book: Epilogue

Posted on December 30, 2017 by ehurst

There is one practical matter that needs a little attention.

The New Testament lays out the qualifications of pastors. This is the moral and spiritual leader, the preacher and ceremonial guide we associate with priesthood. This is the “hired gun” of the congregation. The Bible staunchly requires it be a male, and it traces this back to Eden and the particular kind of mistakes made. Adam the male knew better, but Eve as female was genuinely confused about the moral implications. This is made clear in the New Testament; male and female are not interchangeable in God’s eyes.

There are qualifications laid out for deacons, as well, and here the New Testament plainly adds the term “deaconess” because women are qualified for that. It’s any number of responsible congregational “sergeants” who get things done.

Nowhere does the Scripture say much about New Testament elders. That’s because their position was long established under the ancient feudal traditions of king, chieftain and head of household. In a modern context, we believe the heart-led way suggests that an elder is anyone people will follow in the first place. It’s not a question of ambition, but someone who discovers an unquestionable drive to do what’s right coupled with a powerful sense of care and compassion for others. It’s inevitably someone older and experienced. It’s an organic function of human existence.

In that sense, both pastor and elder are divine callings, shepherds serving under Christ. But can a woman be an elder? Of course she can; if people naturally flock to her moral and practical leadership in keeping things together and moving forward, then she is an elder by definition. Given what we have seen in human history, it is admittedly unusual for a woman to serve as elder, but certainly not impossible and not forbidden.

And sometimes it’s just a smart move for a male elder to call upon a strong female figure in the congregation to complement his role. In the ANE world, every extended family household had at least one elder female to whom every other woman in the household could turn for leadership. And any wise female figure knows the value of strong male leadership, so there should be no significant conflict here. The issue is whom the people will respect and follow. There is no quintessential personality traits or other qualifications. The ancients had this all worked out by tradition, and it’s something we need to recover from the ruins, because the modern American approach is not working.

For the time being, this author serves in an apostolic role. It’s not a question of wearing the title; it’s the net effect of people choosing to follow my lead. I’m happy to offer guidance, but I’m am loath to assert authority. The most I can do right now is decide who gets to use the name for what we do. Given the current legal and political atmosphere in the US, I’m not willing to register this thing as an official Christian denomination with all the regulatory burdens that come with a tax-exempt status. This will remain an informal and private association. What God has called into being, He will prosper.

There is truly nothing we can do to prevent this thing going completely off the tracks. It’s always possible that the people will follow a charismatic fraud, so that an elder or pastor arises who will turn it into a cult. And given time across multiple generations, there is a high probability this religion will become just another institutionalized set of restrictions that make a god of something far lesser than Christ. What we can do is establish a body of precedent that points back to the heart-led way, in which every individual must voluntarily and consciously choose to be a part of something bigger than any one person. We choose today to set the precedent that our words are subject to revision by future generations of believers who need a different narrative to call their hearts. There has to be room for someone someday to rewrite this covenant, and we have to trust God to keep the heart-led way alive.

If it doesn’t work that way, we are all barking up the wrong tree in the first place.

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Covenant Book: 09 Implications

Posted on December 29, 2017 by ehurst

If you understand these things, you would hardly be surprised at what characterizes our behavior under this covenant.

We prefer natural settings for worship. At the same time, we as individuals tend to worship privately all day every day. It’s simply our orientation. We keep stumbling across natural chapels of worship, and can’t stand to go very long with spending some time in them. A whole day without at least a few moments with our fellow creatures in praise of the Father makes us feel drained and empty. And the more wild and natural the setting, the better.

We have the same longing for other humans who see the world this way. Right now, that’s pretty tough to fulfill. We believe this is a move of God in our world right alongside His wrath falling on the sins of our civilization. There will always be a few folks who repent and do what’s right, and we cannot remain silent about this vast treasury of truth we have found. We might be circumspect in how we go about sharing the specifics, but we can’t hide the glowing joy of peace with God and His Creation.

His Law Covenants promise an outpouring of blessings for those who walk consistent with His moral character. Creation itself stands ready to cooperate with our efforts to walk in this divine mission. Reality prefers dealing with those of us who are heart-led; we get preferential treatment. We know what to expect, or at least can learn far better than the our fellow Americans. It might look like miracles to them, but it’s just natural to us.

There are two sources of frustration we face. The first is the obvious legacy of nonsense we have to identify and discard from our minds. That’s a tall order, and it likely takes the rest of our lives. The second is that for centuries the natural world has had precious little moral guidance from heart-led followers of Christ. This second part requires a little effort to think through, another tall order.

Nature has suffered entirely too much heart-less guidance and abuse from Americans. There’s an awful lot of wounds to heal. The natural world is not going to be quite so responsive to us as it was to Adam in the Garden before the Fall. And by our logic, it would seem naturally that any object that has suffered a lot of misguided human handling would be less responsive than something in a pristine natural state. Thus, a piece of junk food wrapper blowing in the wind will not likely yield to us in friendship the way a leaf from uncultivated trees might.

But the question remains: What has God placed in your hands? The center of your daily mission does not rest on someone else’s academic study of what the world needs. We have to be careful to spend time alone with God in our wild prayer chapel and discard all the junk of American moral ideas. Not that we cease to be aware of those values, but that we cease serving them. You’ll have to find your own sense of peace in the interplay between these two forces in your soul, but the more firmly you can wrap your head around ancient Hebrew morals, the better your grip on God’s truth — and it’s grip on you.

With Paul, we are going to have to travel on Roman Roads and use the protection of Roman Law to spread the gospel within the Roman Empire. Being an idealist or absolutist is foreign to Biblical Law; we cannot demand perfection in this world. Precious few elements in God’s character represent hard and fast boundaries. We have all confidence that your heart can tell you what God wants from you, and what He wants for you, as you go about your mission and calling. The American law and culture is frankly hostile to what we teach, and it requires a strong communion with God to discern what tactics and strategy we use to handle that hostility.

Inevitably your choices will witness to a different approach to life. Equally inevitable is that people will ask questions. We offer written stuff like this to help you shape your answers to those questions. The idea is not to put them off, but to honestly explain how you belong to something very different. You have to leave the door open for them. Some of the folks you encounter will have noticed their own internal conflicts and will be seeking a way out of the confusion. Their hearts are trying to get their minds’ attention. You just might have the key to their escape.

Never forget the lesson of Joseph in Pharaoh’s court. He was obliged to participate in a lot of pagan ritual and other departures from his comfort zone in order to carry out his mission from God. Our covenant does not vest other people with the authority to decide for you what it means to follow God. The most we can do is warn you that some choice you make interferes with our own mission, so there has to be some kind of buffer zone between us. We hope and pray that somewhere in the near future, there will be multiple congregations of Radix Fidem scattered around the world, and you can negotiate associating with one or another. However, the organizational leader of each congregation is an elder, and God’s ideal is that you don’t cause unnecessary hassles for the elders.

Again, the standard is a matter of whether you can live with the elder, and the elder can live with you. Nothing keeps you from forming a new congregation with yourself as elder.

The online eldership is another matter. A virtual community of faith will echo a literal local congregation, but there are obvious and unavoidable differences. At the time this is written, your author currently serves as the senior elder of the online community. It so happens I already know that it is impossible to lead the online community of faith as I do my own house church. I also know that I cannot run my blog the way I would a community forum. God forbid this whole thing rest entirely on my personal presence.

This religion was born online and it will always reflect that. It’s also currently in its infancy. For example, we have no one who has volunteered or been appointed as pastor to guide our worship rituals. It’s probably less critical as long as this community remains just an online presence. But God has promised to finish what He starts, and we are utterly convinced He is the one who started this thing.

Soon we hope to be notified of actual congregations forming around some of our online members. I personally believe that this may require God’s hand stirring things up enough in America that people feel the need to search for something like our expression of faith. We welcome any group that affirms they can embrace this covenant. It’s not a body of doctrine, but an orientation. Again, it’s a matter of, “We can live with that.” We’ll make all our resources available, meager as they may be, to support and nurture those who wish to be a part of us.

We expect you to hold to the original feudal organization, but you are free to organize your worship meetings as you like. We are confident that your embrace of this covenant will guide you sufficiently to avoid anything that might make the rest of us uncomfortable. The same goes for your daily conduct as members of this religion.

Let your hearts lead.

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Covenant Book: 08 Not Green

Posted on December 28, 2017 by ehurst

We do not worship the creature, but the Creator.

Redemption through Biblical Law restores us to our natural place in Creation. There is a sense in which we return to Eden by passing through the Flaming Sword of revelation. It restores our feudal grant of dominion over the natural world. We are able to recover some measure of Adam’s original management mission in the Garden. That business of the Curse in “living by the sweat of your brow” was a departure from how Adam did things before the Fall. Creation is meant to be our ally and subject to our moral management.

So there’s nothing wrong with using natural resources, but Biblical Law does require that we respect Creation as a person. We aren’t conquering nature, and we can’t treat natural resources as inert and undeserving of any personal consideration. Most of what Americans have done with natural resources is a hideous insult to God. Not in the choice to use it, nor specifically how it is used, but the fundamental approach that lacks respect for Life.

In the lingo of American economics education, you should not externalize the costs of your activity. Go ahead and extract petroleum from the ground, but find a way to transport it without the blatant contempt for the natural world we’ve seen with most oil companies. It’s not that there should be no accidents; nature can bear some limited pollution. But those accidents should not arise from cut-throat cost-cutting that guarantees spillage is measured entirely in terms of monetary profit and loss. The so-called tolerable rates of loss are not nearly so tolerable to the other parties in the spillage — everyone and everything that isn’t a party to the transaction. And it’s not just farmers and ranchers whose lands are polluted; it’s bad enough oil companies are contemptuous about that. It’s the total lack of conscience about polluting countless non-human living things.

We could do a lot better, but we won’t as long as America reserves a high place for Mammon in the pantheon of worship. Once the punitive financial losses are paid to select parties, the court case is closed. Nobody gives a damn about those who have no lawyers, whether it’s marginalized humans or other living things. Our legal system is wholly unjust in God’s eyes. American legal justice bears no resemblance to Biblical Law. In the Bible, title ownership to physical property does not in any way reduce feudal accountability to the Creator.

Unlike the Green religion, we do not regard humans as inherently evil. The solution is not depopulation; the solution is returning to an Eden far different from the perverted demonic religion of the Green environmentalists. We seek to reunite mankind with Creation as a living community. We rightly dominate and use natural resources, but we do it wrongly without the guidance of Biblical Law.

Back up to the previous chapter for a moment: It’s not a question of objective reality, but of your individual perception of what you experience. If Creation is alive, both in the whole as well as all the individual entities as we experience them, then why do we not communicate directly with the natural world through our hearts?

We could. Some of us who have been involved with Radix Fidem for a while are convinced that we have heard the voice of nature around us. Not so much with our ears, but in our hearts. Unlike the Greens, we do not revere nature from afar with fear, but up close and personal as friends.

We reject the notion that biblical language about such things is a mere figure of speech. When the Bible says the trees clap their hands, it’s because tress do clap their hands in the ears of our hearts. More, the rocks and stones do sing His praises, and the wind calls our names. This isn’t some dark pagan magic; this is from the Bible. If Jesus could speak to the storm, surely the storm answered to Him, as well. It’s not just wild imagination, but replacing the dark and fearful suspicion of Western minds with an open communion as indicated in the Bible.

Nobody can tell you what your mind is supposed to make of such communication, but a good starting place is to recognize that Creation celebrates the glory of the Creator. Care to join in? Wouldn’t you like to restore that fellowship and communion with the rest of Creation, as God intended? Let your heart teach your mind that this is not only possible but obligatory. The creatures know your name.

Do this long enough and the mind gets used to it. It’s the natural order of things that you would walk through this world in full awareness of creatures everywhere rejoicing in the Lord. And while you are encouraged to speak to nature with your vocal chords, and observe the response with your five senses, it’s also a communication channel on the heart level, as well. Do you not know that the birds, trees, flowers and clouds know that your heart is aware? They can tell when you are walking the heart-led path. As Paul says in Romans, the natural world groans and cries out in anticipation that we will awaken our awareness of the heart in communion with Christ.

Nature can’t wait to have a conversation with you about the wonders of our Lord.

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