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Jesus: way-shower

What everyone – Jew, Gentile, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, etc. – can celebrate in this season, and year round, is the birth of the awareness that God had but one holy and beloved son, and it is, as Pogo said, us: women and men, black and white, democrat and republican, LGBT and straight, all of us God’s one son, no one and no thing excluded.

And so, with this awareness, our elder brother, Jesus, becomes the way shower, the great example, not the great exception.  Greater things than this shall you do also, he said. Pray believing (claim your awareness of this oneness) and it shall be done unto you as you believe.

Would you rather be right or happy?

Would you rather be right with the ego or happy with Spirit? All our feelings of dis-ease and disturbance flow from the mind’s mistaken choice. Not a sinful choice, simply a mistaken choice; one that we can undo without guilt. Only mistaken, what a happy fact! Happy because knowing there’s another way, we can choose it. We are not trapped in our stinkin’ thinkin.

Question Everything

Ready? There’s some work involved. But the rewards: deep peace, calm, compassion, happiness, and purpose are worth it. Question your perceptions. To access your real thoughts and experience these rewards, first let go of your unreal thoughts. The ego always speaks first and is wrong. Accept nothing it says at face value. Question your perceptions. Let the door behind this world be opened for you, that you may look past it to the world that reflects the love of spirit.

Devorah Back Cover

The Story the Bible Couldn’t Tell

175 years after Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, Devorah, a prophet, became the first and only female Judge to rule ancient Israel.

Surrounded by pagan Canaanites practicing ritual sex and human sacrifice, Devorah must find ways to maintain the Hebrews’ belief in the One God and overcome the Canaanites’ overwhelming military supremacy.

Devorah walks a tightrope between her personal view of the One God as a present, loving force and the prevailing view of God as a distant, punishing power. She calls the fearsome God of the temple and formal worship, the God of the Scrolls; and the benign, loving and accessible God, the God of the Covenant.

Devorah’s story is the first in Steve Liebowitz’ The Covenant and The Scrolls series of novels based on these differing views of God and their influence on the lives of Kings Saul, David, Solomon and other Old Testament characters.

 

Steve Liebowitz’ interest in non-traditional ways of understanding the Bible, began under fire during the first TET Offensive in Vietnam in 1968.  In Devorah he shares the idea that God is much more than we think He is. This awareness sustained Steve in the defense of his doctoral dissertation in l990, and continues to support his Business Coaching and Management Consulting practice today.  In addition to his PH.D, Dr. Liebowitz holds two Masters Degrees. He is currently Commander of JWV Post 243 in Coral Gables. Not only has Dr Steve researched these ideas, he’s lived them.

 

Confused and Bemused?

Confused and bemused? That’s because it’s a paradox. In the world but not of the world. Seek not to change the world but change your mind about the world. We are not saved from the world but from our own thoughts about the world. If myself is real, then mySelf is not. Which do you want to be real for you?

Witnesses

Did you do that? The witnesses you look upon are the witnesses you sent out. Perception is not an objective fact, but always an interpretation. Intentions and expectations play a huge part. To what choices are your witnesses testifying?

Happiness is a Decision

Happiness is a decision I make even before I have a reason to be happy. Happiness is an intention, a choice about how to experience life. Life itself is neutral. It’s my choice to experience it with reality as Spirit and be happy, or unreality as a separated ego and be sad, sick, anxious, fearful and hating. What I experience is feedback about the choice I’ve made, inside. If I’m sad, anxious and sick, I’ve chosen the ego and can now choose again.

Afraid of Death?

“I’m not afraid of death,” Woody Allen said.  “I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”  Yeah, ditto for me! And what if we don’t have to be there? What if dying means letting go of the particular ego, myself, who I think I am, and taking a step into something unknown, bigger, and perhaps better – mySelf?

Illussions

“Put not your faith in illusions,” Devorah said. “They will fail you. Put all your faith in the love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. In the midst of seeming danger, disappointment and failure, allow peace to flow over you like a blanket of protection and surety. Entertain no idle and foolish thoughts for they are illusions.”

Kindness

Would you like to be kinder and gentler – with yourself and others? I would. What prevents us? Nothing really, no thing, just a mistaken belief that kindness doesn’t work, that you catch more flies with vinegar than with honey.