Leaping Point: Take a flying leap and see where you land
The dates have not been officially announced yet but Tim Freke, bestselling author and internationally respected authority on world spirituality, will be in Kansas City in early May. He will be giving a two-evening Lucid Living seminar.
For all the information on Tim’s KC appearances, go to www.timothyfrekekc.com. And, yes, I am ken@timothyfrekekc.com from that site.
BBC News lists some Bushisms (found via nothing new under the sun) to make you chuckle a little and groan a little and wonder a little how the hell we survived the last 8 years. Read the whole list, but here are few of my favorites:
I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today. He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.
Nashville, Tennessee, 27 May, 2004
You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.
CBS News, Washington DC, 6 September, 2006
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.’
Townsend, Tennessee, 21 February, 2001
That’s George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three - three or four books about him last year. Isn’t that interesting?
Speaking to reporter Kai Diekmann, Washington DC, 5 May, 2006
And my favorite of these favorites:
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.
Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004
And, the one that sums up the last 8 years in a nutshell:
I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
Washington DC, 12 May, 2008
My friend, Patrick Neas of KXTR here in Kansas City interviewed Richard Smoley (Conscious Love, Inner Christianity and Hidden Wisdom) and you can listen to it here. Richard will be in Kansas City next week (January 16 & 17) for a Friday night lecture and Saturday workshop sponsored by the Kansas City Friends of Jung.
Jeremy (The Kibitzer) makes a point I’ve never before thought about in Imperfect Civilization Is Better Than an Impossible Utopia. The Garden of Eden was not a day-spa where Adam and Eve were waited on hand and foot and got facials, pedis and manis, took mud baths, &c. There was actual work to be done!
Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. [Genesis 2:15]
I don’t know how how many acres the ol’ garden was but Adam certainly did not have any John Deer tractors so this must have been a lot of manual labor. This also implies that Adam grew his own food which means that either the room service was very slow or quite expensive. I just never thought about Adam having to work in paradise.
Jeremy points out that “[a]fter the Fall humankind’s work became more difficult, but it was difficulty in work, not work itself, that was God’s judgment.” And that makes sense but it doesn’t jive with my up-till-now-image of Paradise. Eden was supposed to be perfect and yet there still had to be work done? I’d have thought that the ground would be fertile and flat and ready for planting but, apparently, it had to be cultivated.
The other thought this brings to mind is that Heaven is supposed to be a return to Paradise where everything is perfect. But what if there is work to be done in heaven, too? Golden mansions to be painted, golden roofs to be replaced, golden pot holes to be filled. I thought we would spend all day praising God and worshiping at his feet but I guess that’s only on weekends and major holidays.
And then, a final thought. If Adam had to work in the Garden of Eden and he was in perfect communion with God, then how can I think for a second that if only I did such and such or earned this amount of money or had this or that job that my work would be easy or I wouldn’t have to work at all? If Adam, a perfect human, had to work, then work is part of being human and not a curse with which we have to deal and try to avoid.
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