Over and over again in meeting after meeting I was told that the institution was important and what God had intended! I have been ‘plugged-in’ for the last 20 years to a system that I now see as an irrelevant, time-stealing, over political, non-personal, and controlling. I now believe that a religious institution is primarily about control! Controlling people to accomplish man-made agendas all in the name of God. I have seen so many leaders pull the ‘god card’ and tell people that they have heard from God and have a plan to lead 900 people into the future, while changing what they heard from God at least every year, in an effort to save a sinking ship. If they actually hear from God… would things not be a little different? If they system that they are working in was a system inspired by God… shouldn’t bills be paid without having to continually lose employees? Excuses are all that you will hear! Like: ‘well satan is just attacking us right now because we are on the right path’. How many times have you heard that??? Or ‘well that person just wasn’t the right fit’, or ‘we had to look at things the way other corporations do…’.
I say let’s STOP! It’s time for a new way of living… doing… being… and I believe that we can change the things that we have seen don’t work. I believe we have too!!! No matter what others have said, it is our responsibility to bring heaven to earth. It is our responsibility to care for an nurture each other, our environment, and all of creation. Life is such a fragile, short thing to waste another 2o years in a system that doesn’t work. So instead of complaining about it… let’s be the change we want to see!
No matter what religion or philosophy you have followed or adhered to, you know deep on the inside that something is not right in the world today… something is not right in our relationships with each other… something is not right with our relationship to the earth. So I’m officially inviting you to join us in a journey of amazing discovery. This isn’t about saving another soul from the fires of hell…. it isn’t about convincing people to believe the same as we do… it is not about fear, control, or manipulation… it is simply about learning to live with each other in a world that is desperate for life to be lived fully, and not compartmentalized.
If you follow the way of Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus, or any other significant person or faith… can we all make the choice to follow the examples set by these great leaders, and in the case of Jesus and the cross… let’s not burn it anymore, but follow the amazing example that he gave us and stand against the empires of our day, even if they are the religious institutions that claim to be the hope of the world.
YOU my friend, are the hope of the world!
