Directives for Year 2023!

Directives for Year 2023!

It seems to me that if people were not so frustrated by living, we would want to live longer—and would!  But when the whole species is not partying together, we break down in various ways.  

Religions that call themselves faiths of love but don’t extend that emotion to all people on Earth, even those who are not believers of that religion, are messed up and hypocritical!  Love transcends boundaries!  The ultimate show of it is not wanting someone to convert so they can be “saved;” the true meaning of love is valuing someone as they are, even if you think they could be healthier.  

Celebrating is the mission for our Planet’s people.  Let’s focus on kind, inclusive having fun together—the world needs us to be happy!  

We need to plan species-wide playing, because we need to show the Creator/Planet that we get them—we understand the natural system on not just an intellectual level but also an emotional one.  Like, how do other cultures value Earth?  How can we transcend differences between Earth dwellers enough to have a good time, together, to GET Her?

The Creator/Natural System of our home, Earth, probably is waiting for us to be a mirror of Her/His/Its greatness.  WE need to tend our Garden home, not wait around for some power to come and do it for us!  We need to figure out how to come—together!  Is sex bad?  Why or why not? Learning to do this, including leaving some wilderness wild, is the direction of the future, the ultimate empowerment, the joining of hands with our Lord or Whoever!

Why do I know this?  How can I say these things?  What gives me the power to see this?  I am an artist and writer, and the world has shown itself to me, and I’m not going back!  

If the Planet—yes, our home, capital P—had feelings, She/He would be offended at Her/His humans raping and causing starvation; She/He would like to be known as a pleasant place to stay and dine.  Raping means seizing body or possessions.  This reminds me of the Christian sentiment that charity should come from one’s substance, not one’s surplus (p. 8, Catholic Teaching on the Environment 2020, Washington DC, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops).

And as Pope Pius XII said, as quoted in the book Catholic Teaching on the Environment (2020, Washington DC, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, page 11), on material goods, “‘the goods which were created by God for all men should flow to all alike, according to the principles of justice and charity,’ (Sertum Laetitiae [On the 150th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Hierarchy in the United States]).  (no. 43)”  

Further, from this book (Catholic Teaching on the Environment), it is stated that “If one is in extreme necessity, he has the right to procure for himself what he needs out of the riches of others,” page 8.  Does our American Bill of Rights trump the Catholic teachings?  Surely the right to pursue happiness that it guarantees suggests that we cannot feel truly happy when our neighbor is suffering!  When we have seized the wellbeing of others for our own benefit, that is rapine.  The USA is engaging in sin!  

Let’s figure it out!  If our economics was based on presence, if we felt more whole and shared that with each other, we could give better presents.  Maybe we could dabble in prescience, figuring out the future!  But we can’t do it when the house is a mess!  We need some clutter busting on a large scale!  If there’s going to be a God coming here, we need the paths to be straight (see Mark, 1-3: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’ ”)—we need to figure out what that means!  

The Jesus thing: If God gave us His Son to save us, and we failed to learn from Jesus and other peacemakers how to live better lives, does it make sense that we are gonna be judged well if the  world ends?  Certainly we could—and should—try harder to be virtuous and help our neighbor.  What if the whole world—Catholic, believing in Jesus, as well as pagan—were our deity’s special project, and Jesus was an example, along with other prophets, of what the successful project would look like?  This is what saving means: the peaceful are a direction—a guide–for us!  

Instead of ignoring religious advice, thinking that the worse the Planet gets—the more evil becomes the human race—the sooner we will all (who believe) be taken to paradise—I want you to know that I am committed to figuring it out right here.  I see ways to do it, to help impress our deities, and each other, by virtue and creativity, playing, not just praying, for salvation: theater games for all!

So, what we need is an active involvement with Earth’s elements, including the human population, not waiting and even damaging Creation because our reading of the Bible suggests that we should be passive and weak.  I see that the God of Christianity is more powerful than that.  I was made in His image, according to many believers; He and I are not wimps!  He may be unorganized and need clarification to Himself, which is where we come in.  He might not, as I say, possess an effective mirror—yet, we can, if we try harder to have fun instead of suffer, grow to show Him to Himself, partnering with Him/Her and each other for a great future, one where all children grow using the expression of the joy they feel all the time.  

Wow!  What a year!