Hay-Ku of the Day (God's Show and Tell)

The Real Good News is 

“I and my Father are One,”

As Jesus proclaimed.

Jesus proclaimed that 

“Ye are the light of the world”

Without condition.

Jesus revealed not 

Only he, but all men,  are 

One with the Father.

Jesus witnessed man’s 

“Life is hid with God in Christ”

 When dead to himself.

Jesus overcame 

The temptation to believe 

He was separate.

Dying to myself 

As I presently think is 

Following Jesus.

The “abundant life”

Jesus offers requires that

I die to self-thought.

The real “good news” is 

Jesus is your brother and 

God is your Father.

“Why calleth thou me 

Good?” is a question Jesus 

Asked, but few answer.

Was the Lord Jesus 

Christ the “Great Examplar” or 

The “Great Exception.”

Jesus as someone 

Other than the One I Am 

Must be sacrificed.

God’s potential to 

Incarnate in man fully 

Manifest as Jesus.

Jesus expressed the 

Conscious awareness of God 

We are all heir to.

Jesus died to save

Us All from our delusion

Of self-existence.

RE: JESUS--GODS SHOW AND TELL

"At a writer's workshop at Mundelein Colledge that Madeline was teaching, the clas sat in a circl and shared meaningful stories.

"A teacher is small children told us of a child who said to her, "Jesus is God's show and tell."

"How simple and how wonderful Jesus is God's show and tell.  That's the best theology of incarnation I've heard. Jesus said, if you do not understand me as a little child, you will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.

"That child's insight works more powerfully for me than dogma.  When I am informed that Jesus of Nazarath was exactly like us except sinless, I block.  If he was sinless he wasn't exactly like us.  That makes no sense.  Jesus was like us because he was born like any human child, grew up like the rest of us, asked questions in the temple when he was twelve, lost his temper with righteous indignation at the money lenders in the temple, grieved when at the end his disciples abandoned him.  I want Jesus to be like us because he is God's show and tell, and too much dogma obscures rather than reveals the likeness.

"If Jesus is God's show and tell, the wonder, the marvel is that Jesus and God are one.  Not I, says Jesus over and over, but the Father in me, the Father who is such love that he is willing to be in the story with us."

(Page 111, "Glimpses of Grace" by Madeleine L'Engle)