There’s a lot to be said for teaching our children

to be in the world

and to be themselves

in connection with the Source of Everything,

and not of the world.

 

That is so very different

to teaching them that they are better than the world.

 

It matters deeply because our goal is to create community that is connected in love and respect. 

 

The supremacy of modern Christianity creates shame and division.

Shame because our unconscious core knows

that we are equal and not better,

and our conscious ego creates unconscious anxiety and depression

as a result of the dissonance between supremacy and love.

 

We cause our children to feel ashamed of their very natural journey through life

when we have taught them that some issues

are ones that only “those” inferior people face.

 

Because when those issues arise for them

then they feel shame.

 

Shame caused Adam and Eve to run and hide,

and lash out with blame.

And it has been causing us to follow that same pattern since.

 

As Baba Ndiri came towards them then, so He comes towards us now to say: 

 

“Child, no struggle is shameful.

All struggle is a part of the deep desire to survive.” 

 

A survival which we grasp at with a plethora of self-medicating norms, until we grasp Baba’s outstretched hand, 

or hold the gaze of M’shikha’s loving eyes.

 

And hear Them say: 

 

Smoke in someone’s face or lungs is not the deepest issue.

What matters is the story behind the smoke.

The ache. The fight. The coping.

The fact that they’re still breathing,

still trying,

still alive.

 

The smoker is a fucking warrior fighting hard to stay alive.

 

Baba does not focus on the outward appearance. He focuses on the heart. 

 

And this is WHY Decolonizing Divinity is vitally important.

Because Yeshua M’ishika sat and vibed and ATE

with the people whom the elite called publicans and sinners.

 

Yeshua flipped the empiric tables totally upside down

by calling the embezzling treasurer,

the loud rambunctious fishermen,

the radical zealot,

the doubters,

the naked adulterers,

the lepers,

the tax collectors

to be His closest Loveolutionary followers,

whom He knew would find joyful transformation into friends along the way. 

 

Yeshua followed thus in the footsteps of Baba Ndiri / Creator / Yah,

who conceived hope with an unwed woman from the ghetto,

announced the stable birth to shepherds,

and then fled to the pagan former enslavers as a refugee.

 

And He made sure to make it clear that those whom He called were equal in value and, sadly, more open to divine intervention than those deemed learned and elect of any day. 

 

So let’s take our respectability elitism 

and bury it where the sun does not shine—

after all that is where the prophet says The Father casts our sins 

– Into the depths of the sea. 

 

And until we can see these things clearly,

we are still trapped in supremacy pretending to be holiness.

 

This knowing was desperately hard won! 

 

Hopefully we will allow Mweya waMwari’s refining fire to unite us with their golden love, as we wrestle for peace.

 

Hopefully we will begin to lay down our thrones and sit in circles at a newly set table, 

instead of in hierarchal rows.