I’m in a vein today and, apparently, I have been for a couple of days based on my allowing myself to be moved to pedantry by that particular “Keep Christ in Christmas” sign.

I don’t feel the need to explain why I think it incredibly facile and of a special ignorance to believe that the world and our country is going to hell and finds itself in the mess it is in only because enough people aren’t “Christian”. I don’t feel the need to explain just how stupid I think it is to strictly and prejudicially [sic] equate ‘good’ with being so-called Christian and ‘bad’ with being clearly or even vaguely not. And how utterly impractical and insane and incredibly racist it is to take it a step further and equate good with republican and bad with democrat. And don’t get me going on the extreme limits of insanity reached in the illogic [sic] involved in suppressing votes of the latter in order to ‘save’ our country. And I admit, if pressed (or if not), that I do think significantly less of people who don’t or can’t or won’t recognize the special stupidity involved in such convenient and highly selfish convolutions of belief scenarios as presented above.

But that’s not really what I’m in the vein about. I’m more interested in presenting another parabola of parable to get across the point of the axiomatic integral centrality of Christ in every life theme. For you do or should know two things: 1) the destiny of creation is the kingdom of heaven and 2) the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

For consider this. How much time and effort do you put into actively thinking (or fearfully worrying) that you must ‘make’ or ‘keep’ your blood circulating? How much time and effort to you put into actively thinking (or fearfully worrying) that you must ‘make’ or ‘keep’ yourself digesting your repast and eliminating the waste? Such, I surmise, is the time and effort you need to set aside to ‘make’ or ‘keep’ what is central and integral and omnipresent in every moment of every day of every life. Period. I talk of cosmic Christ, that is. We don’t need to name drop. We don’t need identity politics. We don’t need a “Christian” lifestyle. We don’t need to exclude what is or deny what truly is. We don’t need to knock everyone else with hypocrisy, going on about their ‘choosing’ a lifestyle because of who or what they are. And we certainly don’t need to exclude or deny any one! We don’t need no scapegoats to advance us. We don’t need no assumed strength in numbers. We don’t need no ransom sacrifice. Our entire job in this ersatz manifestation of a material body in this material world is to awaken and to be aware of this radiant reality. And to learn to practice gratitude.

That is all.