NO THING IS GOD

No thing is God –
Which is why God’s completely free –
Beyond all known and unknown categories.

Fei Fei Li counted those categories – at least 20,000+ types of images –
Which she had labeled
So her machines could “see” them.

Fei Fei created a machine-controlled “God” –
Which, actually, wasn’t God –
Because no one can “own” God.

God is watching over Fei Fei and all other humans attempting to re-create God
Into a “known” and “controlled” God –
God is appalled, yet expectant.

Beyond things, there is no thing –
Beyond control, lies chaos –
And, apparently, love might even disappear.

After those 20,000 images – comes time –
Which is presently expiring –
Yet, sometimes, time can start all over again.

All “things” exist in space –
Flickering on and off –
As well as within time
Which might not exist.

God thinks this is so funny
Humans re-creating everything that, in actuality, already exists,
For use inside artificial machines.

This is certainly something to look into and wonder about.

SOUL WORK

How is it possible to work on what we no longer believe in –
The word “soul” having become archaic and anachronistic –
Western Civilization placing it to one side at least 500 years ago.

Children still understand souls however –
As the unique selves in which they live and play –
Children know all about heart shrines
And wishes that really come true.

A soul is what we like to say is:
“God within us.” 

Having a soul means that, as a mature human being,
We’re authorized to marry God –
Folding supreme love inside a white handkerchief
Placed next to our hearts.

One’s soul is priceless –
Which is why we’re so tempted to give it away for free.

One’s soul is completely free –
Just like God is free –
And love.

The soul is a jewel beyond value –
A spiritual dream which, over time, becomes real –
And nearer to us than our closest living relative.

The soul is actually me – if I want to claim it –
And I do want that.

God, please, please, free my soul –
Just like you promised us so long ago.

IS GOD TELEOLOGICAL?

I think: Yes and No.

God sees and works towards creating God –
Where there is no God.

God is always creating God
Out of No God and No Thing.

God sees where God is going
Even when blind as a bug.

It’s just a “sense” of God
In the midst of evil and ignorance –
That God “just knows” whether God is present or not.

God starts out being God
And ends up as God –
But, along the way, God “knows” where God is going
By saying “Yes” to all evidences of God
And “No” to any absence of God.

Human beings are able to do this as well
Through an almost infinite series of life choices –

So, stop, and think –
“Is it God or something helpful to God –
If “Yes” then wholeheartedly accept it
If “No” – drop it immediately and run away.

God always comes
By being here already.

IS GOD’S “POWER” EQUAL TO THE LOVE IN A MOTHER’S EYES

Lately my eyesight’s become a bit blurry –
And my hearing’s also gotten dim
    since I can barely hear the person sitting right next to me –
Nevertheless, I still walk around the block – even if I get tired on the return.

So, now, Jesus’ message is finally getting through
About God’s coming down to earth
With power.

Because it’s obvious, isn’t it, that there’s nothing left for me –
It’s all God’s responsibility now.

It’s difficult, however, to accept that God actually has any real power,
Especially given all the missed opportunities –
The tens of billions of human deaths – natural and man-made –
So, God, where were you, then, with all your supposed “power?”

It’s ridiculous, isn’t it, in the modern world, to believe in that kind of God –
But where else could any real hope come from?
Where sweet goodness?
Or the love God has sprinkled so generously throughout our hearts?

Maybe God’s “power” was not, and never was, about what we wanted or thought we needed –
Maybe, instead, it was more like “beauty” – about which I’m taking ever greater notice now –
Or “truth” which, with age, I express more freely –
Or “justice” which slowly, methodically, is inching its way towards humanity.

Maybe, God’s “power” is simply the “love” reflected in a mother’s eyes
Which never fades.

Maybe God’s “power” is like that!

KEEP DANCING IN SPITE OF AGING

Unfortunately, I’ve gotten way too old to dance.
My feet just don’t work that way anymore –
Too wooden for the spin.

Yet my heart sings –
Is singing – right now!

You can hear it no matter how far away you are –
You can even feel it without being awake.

Yes, although I no longer dance –
My heart still sings –
In waking dreams that surprise even me.

Dancing without feet –
Deep down in my heart –
I suddenly hear the voice of Jesus out in the wilderness
Fighting Satan by outwitting him –
And being someone who always says “No” to evil.

All God’s power can be hidden inside a silver thimble.

The evil one and all his accomplices run away
When that tiny glittering container of goodness appears.

I’m wearing one right now –
A true symbol of God’s goodness –
It’s filled with tiny eye sparkles –
Which include every bit of love in my life –

Here, in this old, yet still innocently young
Body.

A MESSAGE FROM JESUS

Recently, it’s all gone so drastically wrong –
Evangelicals substituting an “Orange Jesus”
For my name and God’s even more exalted name.

The cult of “EvilMan” has seeped like a nasty virus into the American cultural body –
And even into the Christian religion established by Paul and my disciples –
Contaminating not only my own name but also my reputation.

Evangelical ministers, sworn to God to protect and defend the Christian religion,
Instead, hurriedly, almost frantically, have turned their religion over to an evil cult.

Therefore, all Evangelical ministers who accepted and encouraged this cult
Have to go – every single one of them –
Today, just go!
Leave your flocks behind who you worked to turn into rabid wolves –
Glowing with political hate – you did that.

If you do leave your positions – immediately – I order my followers
To provide you with a non-political, non-spiritual means of support –
Modern day versions of Paul’s “tents” to maintain themselves –
If you fail, however, to accept this order, I command you to disappear
And go straight to “Hell” because you bear great responsibility
For encouraging your followers to give their allegiance to such an EvilMan.

He’s the shameless man who rapes women and brags about it –
Mocks those who’re good
And plasters his homes with gold, even his toilet –
Covering his inner filth with golden glamour –

He’s a man who turns formerly honorable men and women into groveling sycophants –
Someone who’s even said he could “shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any voters” –
He’s a former President who has introduced his warped ideas and filthy values
Into and throughout America’s body politic –
Yes, he’s actually trashing and burning America’s noblest historical ideas and institutions –
A man who lies so often it’s become a public joke – following Satan, the Father of Lies –  

His heroes are Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un (a dynastic dictator), and Victor Orban,
In contrast to traditional American heroes, like  George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

His chief associates are Steve Bannon who established the Movement, a fascist right-wing anti-democratic international organization; Stephen Miller, who promoted the policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border, an illegal Jan 6 plan to send alternate slates of fake electors to Congress, and, in 2025, has proposed a policy of rounding up millions of undocumented immigrants, forcing them into camps, and then expelling them out of the country; and, finally, Roger Stone, a convicted (then quickly commuted) felon who met with the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys to “fight to the bitter end” during the January 6 insurrection, and who has Richard Nixon’s face tattooed on his back.

As a consequence, I order any of EvilMan’s followers who still care for me, to avoid Fox News and all other media and internet conduits of hate –
I also order these people to develop greater humility and openness to truth
Which, eventually, over time, will free them from the cult.

I also order other cultists, who can still hear me, to turn and assist non-cult citizens to save the American democracy
So that, in the future, people can live in freedom and prosperity.

Then, I want my own people to financially help the Ukrainians fight against Putin
and the hordes of Russian unfreemen to regain their country,
And I want them to restore and protect the Christian religion, if that’s truly their religion, along with all the other historically great American political institutions.

Evangelicals, I especially order you to return to the religious values you once possessed –
Before this malignant cult arrived and thrived.

And I order my own people to do everything in their power to bring the truth of the madness of this evil cult to come to light –
I also ask you to assist law enforcement officials and the American judicial system
to bring guilty cultists to bar.

Finally, I want my people to aid Liz Cheney in any way they’re able, both by buying her recent book, and by doing anything else she asks –
Because she’s the “American” Archangel Michael – empowered – to trample
Lucifer and EvilMan under her feet.

And, finally, there’s Cassidy Hutchinson, who at one time  participated in this cult, but later reconsidered, broke free from it, and testified patriotically to Congress, inspired by God’s “Holy Spirit,” as well as the American National Spirit –
Look directly into her face and you’ll see what an American “angel” really looks like.

I order this in my name,
In the name of God,
And in the names of all those who have worked for God, died for God,
Spoken up courageously for God, and lived the kind of life God desires human beings to live.

I also order the foregoing in the name of the children –
Whom we all love – and want to protect.

RECOGNIZING CRITICAL LIFE CHOICES

Some choices are as critical as one’s birth –
But you’ll have to “wake up” to recognize when such a choice
Has come knocking at your door.

Most of the time, however, people don’t choose –
Since the choice has already been made for them by parents,
Friends, teachers, or simply arise out of “what comes next.”

But if you do “wake up” and become faced with a true choice –
Whether being “born” – the first or any subsequent time –
Your take it – because God doesn’t hand out such choices
Freely
Even if the choice, when it appears, turns out to be completely free.

For some people, a choice arrives
When falling in love
Either with another person or by the surprising appearance of reality –
Since how else could you find yourself outside yourself –
That is, outside family, society – and all the dreams of your peculiar culture.

If it turns out, however, that you’ve been too lazy to look
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to discover any true choice –
Since when such a choice comes along, you won’t recognize it –
It’ll seem just like any other thing –
Quickly submerging
Beneath the waters of consciousness.

HOW TO ACHIEVE “A SECOND LIFE”

As I get older, I feel myself physically fading
But, at the same time, I also have an increasing desire
To spiritually become closer to God.

All life in our expanding universe is flickering on and off –
But God pays no attention,
That is, until God chooses a “light” originally powered by God
And starts paying attention to that.

God’s able to retrieve every single thought we ever thought
Every movement, every breath –
It all still exists – stored away in God’s own Time –
But why would God spend energy
Bringing back someone’s “non-God” activity to life again?

God just wouldn’t do that.

God’s eternally constructing God out of nothing
And so would give “second life” only to human beings
Who’ve been able to participate along with God in this world.

God gave Jesus eternal life
Because Jesus, while still in this world, was able to live as a human being married to God
So everyone could see what that was like.

At his death, as this kind of a human being, Jesus was able to “merge” with God.

Yes, anyone can become a part of God if they really want it
But it takes a lot of intentionality, courage, and intelligence
To achieve.

You don’t gain a second life just by “believing” in Jesus, no matter what Paul said –
You only get this by actually “living like” Jesus,
That is, completely in love with God.

GOD’S ALIVE AND SO HAS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE

If God is sentient – being alive –
God can change.

Is changing now – just as you read this.

God is not an ancient immovable statue placed up on high
To be worshipped –
God continually changes right before our eyes.

Also, God is placeless and so is similar to Nature –
Alive at every level –
Even in our imagination.

God embodies a Spirit that breathes
Like the tides –
Like hummingbird hearts –
Or rain pelting down onto our faces.

God knows what we think
Before that thought ever surfaces into our consciousness.

God understands the beginning – as well as the end –
While cherishing middle lives.

For example, God immediately was aware of my grandchild, Jules –
Before I ever placed a foot on the second-floor staircase –
Before I turned on the whole-house fan –
Before I even asked my wife to be my wife – the first time.

Jules existed way back then –
Centered directly in God’s loving eyes.

THE INTERCONNECTIVITY BETWEEN SELF AND GOD

Artificial selves worship artificial gods
While the search for one’s “true self”
Has to end up discovering a true God.

Accepting one’s family imprint on one’s self –
Or society’s imprint –
Or even the imprint of a small circle of artist friends –
Invariably leads into a room captioned “religion”
With an exclusive set of beliefs.

God, however, is wild –
More so even than Nature itself –
At all levels – particles through galaxies.

God obviously cannot be held in hand like a medallion –
To be sworn upon –
And there’s no pictures either.

God is invisible – lives nowhere –
And always is a surprise to us –
Like the wind
Which arises so suddenly –
Carrying oceanic flavors.

God is Love –
Waiting as long as you need.

Yes, the ultimate truth about God
Is that God is willing to wait for us!