Christians have forgotten that they have been given names and been listed among the saints who rely upon the words and message of Christ, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand." Instead, they have opted for an earthly kingdom in which to amass wealth and false abundance with a diminished, ethereal heaven somewhere in the clouds which has no force but to be hung over the heads of others in an attempt to scare them into a diminished view of their being and the universe. I don't want an ethereal heaven nor an earthly kingdom. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now. Right here. Not in the clouds, though I suppose it is there, too, but not only. The kingdom brings the land of the living and the land of the dead together and they are all with names.
We have sold our brothers and sisters and ourselves into slavery, and so we are forced to grovel with the princes and principalities. But anything that is forced upon us is something that we need not accept. We too can buy our brothers and sisters out of slavery when we cease to grovel, cease to place ourselves at the foot of power, the throne of wealth, and seek the intended way of humanity, life lived in the love of God and love for and with others.
"The kingdom of heaven is at hand." Forget the other kingdoms, though the taste of their fruit lingers on your tongue. Drink the new wine and remember the call of a loving God.
(Genesis 41:55-57, 42:5-7a, 17-24a, Psalm 33, Matthew 10:1-7)
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