Quote from Jim Palmer

This is a quote from Jim Palmer; a very awesome, encouraging man that knows what being a human is all about. It has been wrecking me a lot lately and I hope it does the same for you.

 "...Jesus was special not because he was more divine than the rest of us, but because he was courageously more human than most."

You're a good person

I recently heard someone say that one of the scariest lies that someone can believe is that they are a good person. This completely shocked me but at the same time i wasn't sure why I was so surprised that religion had said this. I believe the scariest lie you can believe is that you're a bad person. You are designed with so much wonder and amazement in the eyes of God. You’re beauty captures his gaze at every twirl of your dress or ray of your glory. There is nothing you can do to become bad or gain goodness. You are designed as a good person and that is simply the truth of the matter. So, think positive about yourself and others and know that there is good in everyone and everything.

Being Human

Being Human is something that I’ve had to relearn. Something that I forgot once I became “saved” or “reborn” and just this last year I’ve relearned what it means to be Human. You see, I was stuck on “hyper Christian” mode and got caught up in having to do things for Jesus that I forgot how to be myself. I probably made a lot of people mad by trying to be controlling of their “sinful” lives, annoying them about Jesus twenty four seven, and ending friendships that I now know I could easily have kept by simply being Human.

Jesus came to show us the greatest thing about ourselves and remind us of who we are. We are human. We understand hurt, and try to help one another. We understand love, and share it with one another. We understand sadness, and try to comfort one another. The list goes on. We are human; a term that blows my mind just thinking about it. We were created with a greatness that we, ourselves, or other people sometimes diminish and destroy by calling ourselves bad or sinful because we haven’t yet discovered the beauty of our true selves; our Humanity.

The Bible talks about us battling “the flesh” or “sin nature” or “dying to ourselves”… I believe this simply means to stop believing the lies that we are bad and that there is something wrong with us. God created us as HUMANS. The “flesh” (our bodies) is so complex; it has veins to send blood throughout your body, a nervous system to send signals to make different parts of the body function, a heart for loving people, animals, the earth and ourselves and a creative mind for dreaming magnificent things. So believing that our human design (aka flesh) is bad or flawed is preposterous. God created me, us, all of humanity and called us good. He fashioned all of humanity in the womb, gave us characteristics that are only unique to ourselves. He spent all of forever coming up with the idea of us and how incredible it would be to live with us, and in us, and KNOW us. He created us and knows us so intimately; in such a way that he wants us to know our own goodness and see how beautiful we are, simply because he believes it to be true.

Jesus came “in the flesh” to show that we are divine as human beings. When he created us, he made us as humans and blew his breath into us. Another term for breath is spirit or wind or Jesus name, YHWH. It’s the sound of breathing, the very sound that we create everyday of our lives. He gave us everything he owns and wants us to act on our inheritance as Sons and Daughter of the Most High. He gave us His divine qualities; things that we sometimes just pass off as simple gifts and not of us but of God. No. Being able to raise the dead, heal the sick, walk on water, turn water into wine, etc. Those are qualities that are unique to us and God. He designed us with the ability to do these things. He fashioned us with the ability to supernaturally heal peoples’ bodies to take care of one another if we break a bone or severely harm our bodies in some way. But he also blessed us with knowledge to deeper understand the body and perform surgeries to fix a body part. Both a form of healing; God designed us with supernatural abilities as well as knowledge to understand the complexity of ourselves… We as people are divine as Humans. There is no separating ourselves from being divine, spiritual, and human. We are all of these qualities whether we know it or not. But being “spiritual” doesn’t mean praying or reading a particular religions’ “holy scriptures”. It could, but also means just enjoying life. Enjoying life is going on a walk through a forest, or walking your dog along the sidewalk in your neighborhood, or enjoying the company of friends and family. Being spiritual isn’t having a “monk-like” state of being. It’s just being yourself, loving the great good being that is you and loving the fellow beautiful Humans around you. 

Being human is a balance of knowing we are divine and knowing how to be ourselves with the people around us. Being human is about comforting those who are upset about a tragic life event and being able to help them in a way that has no agenda of sharing a “religion” but simply being there for the person. Being human is about sharing the experience of being a human with the rest of Humanity.