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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
…where there is injury, pardon;
…where there is doubt, faith;
…where there is despair, hope;
…where there is darkness, light;
…where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
…to be consoled as to console;
…to be understood as to understand;
…to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
…it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
…and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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Continuing our look at good and bad power, we turn to how one comes to be a user of the former. How do we become good-power people? Jesus had a lot to say about power, and critical to his teaching was an understanding that successful people, in-group people, tend to become so inwardly focused, they miss the big issues, and trip into the use of bad power. Have a listen.

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As we’ve been looking at the ancient pathways that tend the soul’s well-being, we’ve seen that many of those practices involve interacting with other people.  Consequently, the issue of power comes into play.  In these Advent lessons, we take a side excursion into thinking about good power and bad, and in this lesson in particular, we define what good and bad power are (in spiritual terms).

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How we think about God profoundly affects how we think of the Christian journey. Today, we continue examining how our image of God as King, creates a different version of Christianity than does an image of God as Lover.

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Before the holidays we looked at two elements that help us find a place of internal rest and leisure that the ancients tell us is our heritage on the spiritual journey. There was another I wanted to discuss, and now that we’re though the holidays and our community meetings, I want to finish that up. God bless you.

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In this lesson we look at two parables, Jesus’ parable of “The Unjust Steward” (improperly named, we’ll conclude), and Doug’s parable of Fred the Goldfish.  The point of both is to ask ourselves if the Reality Narratives we tell ourselves that help us navigate our lives are serving us well.  In other words, is the truth we hold to be true, in fact, true.

Then we’ll ask what Jesus was trying to say when he told the story of a steward who ripped off his employer, and got affirmation for doing it from Jesus.  What’s that about?

It’s a three-part lesson, so it’s best to listen to all three together.

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In this lesson we look at two parables, Jesus’ parable of “The Unjust Steward” (improperly named, we’ll conclude), and Doug’s parable of Fred the Goldfish.  The point of both is to ask ourselves if the Reality Narratives we tell ourselves that help us navigate our lives are serving us well.  In other words, is the truth we hold to be true, in fact, true.

Then we’ll ask what Jesus was trying to say when he told the story of a steward who ripped off his employer, and got affirmation for doing it from Jesus.  What’s that about?

It’s a three-part lesson, so it’s best to listen to all three together.

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In this lesson we look at two parables, Jesus’ parable of “The Unjust Steward” (improperly named, we’ll conclude), and Doug’s parable of Fred the Goldfish.  The point of both is to ask ourselves if the Reality Narratives we tell ourselves that help us navigate our lives are serving us well.  In other words, is the truth we hold to be true, in fact, true.

Then we’ll ask what Jesus was trying to say when he told the story of a steward who ripped off his employer, and got affirmation for doing it from Jesus.  What’s that about?

It’s a three-part lesson, so it’s best to listen to all three together.

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