Sabbath Messages | Sabbath Message: April 10, 2004

Good Sabbath

April 10, 2004

A weekend of holiness, where people attempt to re-learn ancient lessons, interpreted by religion and movies. Movies are entertainment which relishes gore and blood, while religion pretty much can be the same. The ancient Hebrew God was rejected by those loving His son, because the ancient God was too "violent"; the new testament was born to separate one religion from the other. The movies perpetuated myth and truth though it might take a deity to identify which was which. The deity said, teach they children to love thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul and all thy might, and remember the rule of gold, which commands that happiness of humankind is based upon treating the stranger the way you wish to be treated, and remember to pursue justice for all, and to practice forgiveness. Nice stuff, forgotten quickly by humankind as they quickly divided into "us" and "them", strangers, neighbors--all the same. Mythology is nice unless it interrupts my fables.

O Lord
Thank You for Another Holyday, yet
Another year wasted in wars, persecution, divisiveness,
Can it ever end?
Maybe we can review the love and peace that You commanded and offered?
Is it possible that Babel is still here?
Waiting for its edifices to collapse under the weight of lost commandments?
Are You seeking another Noah?
Have You finally given up on Your creations
Or have we given up on You?

Are prayers made for baseball players praying for a hit?
Are they myth?
Do You listen?
And do they disappear in a nano-second--
As we forget the true meaning of a loving God
A loving Son
Who both pray for peace and the end of destruction
No matter the rapture that is bathed and corroded with blood
and slaughter.

Have Your creations progressed one inch in anything but technology?
What is this nature of humans when it is so inhumane?

"Though reason is progressive, instinct is stationary. Five thousand years added no improvement to the hive of a bee, or the house of a beaver." (Coulton)

"It is an alarming state to be past feeling, especially as to religious truth and duty." (C.Simmons)

As God gazes down on edifices erected to honor Him, He wonders at the separation of what He has commanded and what takes place as the people leave the edifice? Humankind is ever in search of who He is, what He is, what can He be. Yet the divisions between men and women are so strong and mythical; the divisions between one religion and the next--no matter how many offshoots there are--the utter inhumanity as hatred blossoms as if a beautiful fruit rather than an ugly weed in the garden of possibilities--each of these inhibits the arrival of miracles called peace, love and kindness--all in our hands--not God's.

On these holydays, dear God, we thank Thee for our blessings.
Pray for us, too
Make us alert to what the sameness is to our prayers and wishes
So that together, we again
Arrive at Your gates of heaven
on earth.

The Eden of Adam and Eve
wait for our arrival
freed from babel
and hate.

Make this weekend the best you can share with strangers and neighbors.

sandy