CONFESSION ZERO

With all due respect, I'm not so sure we have slowed down much in our creation of new idols and I don't think the idolatry of money has wavered or gone missing since it wound its way inside our thinking, Francis. It may have been "hidden" from many people's view, but the church, for one example among many, is certainly a testament that it never left. I am glad that you have found it in yourself to speak out about it, though I sense that your statement is somewhat disingenuous given your knowledge of the "golden-calf". Peace © 2014 Mark Richard Prime

I do not spend too much time with another's "written" thoughts, especially those regarding who they believe themselves to be, or who they think I am supposed to be, I instead read (and interpret, scribe) my own story that is born within Me. I believe it is what all are meant to do, though I do not know it to be a fact. I know that it'd make one amazing collective story! The One truth born in all with a similar enough through-line to accommodate all on the collective journey upon the circle we call Life. I think of it as a book whose cover is flesh and whose plot has already been written. Yes. I believe I located that "book", my story within and I'm reading it until I have found the true Me. I scribe my "interpretation" of it without deviating much from the through-line, then I believe I will have found who I was born to be waiting on the internal page and from then on out who I am will walk with Me, within Me, known to my thinking vessel. ...

I believe that freedom is free at its highest form. I do not disrespect the warrior, only the war. War is repugnant to Creation, abhorrent to God, detestable to Home and terrifying for All. Horrifying to those that go to battle, to those that are War’s collateral, to those who lose their limbs, and those that drop a bomb on them. War is horrific to those who lost their children to its teeth, to those who find themselves without choice but to speak, those who think of war as required and those who speak of it as I, those who have brown skin, and those who have white. War should not have one friend. I bless the fallen and the risen, the warrior and the peacemaker. To root for war is to miss the point altogether, unless our quest is for war to reign forever… Peace © 2014 Mark Richard Prime