Morning Meditations

Three individual topics of reflection have been swimming around in my mind for the past week or so ... perhaps this morning my 'psyche' figured out the connection between them ...

1) The following words are attributed to Mohammed Ghandi ..."I love your Christ ... but I don't care much for you Christians" ... in my view ... a disturbing yet profound statement. Jesus said essentially the same thing in His day ... paraphrasing ... I love your Yaweh but I don't care much for you Pharisees, Saducees etc (His fellow Jews) ... you are like 'whitewashed tombs' ... prim and proper on the outside and 'dead' on the inside.

2) An expression I often heard in the busines community ... "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water". This morning ... in my mind ... this images symbolizes the Infant Jesus immersed in badly soiled water ... the history of Christianity ... and most people can't get past the 'repulsive' and 'dirty' water ... so they opt to throw the 'baby'(Jesus) out along with the bath water.

3) Another image and its' symbolism ... if one accidentally stirs a spoonful of sugar into one's coffee ... afterwards ... how does one remove the sugar from the cup of coffee? Obviously one cannot remove the sugar ... like yeast in bread ...

Seems to me the above 3 topics of refelction provide a logical explanation for the entire history of Judaism and Christianity. Often in the old testament we read of devout people praying to God to punish them as they deserve ... yet ... leave a 'remnant' of believers to 'start over' ... as in the 'cup of coffee with the sugar in it ... the sugar has permeated the coffee ... there is no way to remove it ... ('darkness' has permeated the human species) ... one must pour the cup of coffee down the drain ... leaving a 'remant' in the bottom of the cup and start over ... this seems to explain the 'flood' ... Sodom and Gomorah ... the 'exodus' etc etc ... leaving Noah at the time of the flood ... Lot at the time of Sodom and Gomorah ... and Joshua at the time of the exodus

Hmm!!!