“Emotions don’t carry you very far.”
— Mark Carney

He is right. What propels us is not emotion, but our choice to be actively growing together – moving us with love for each one forward with hope and resilience, all grounded in our intrinsic, inestimable worth and worthiness, which remain constant even when storms assail us.

Emotions are messengers, signaling where reflection, reconciliation, and alignment are needed; they are not engines of action. Choice is.

We are meant to choose our direction with confidence, hope, and trust in our ability to restore balance in connection with one another and with the Divine. True trust arises when choice is exercised in alignment with the intrinsic dignity bestowed upon every being.

Do we know our worth? Our perception may fluctuate, but our actual worth does not. The Son of God revealed that even if human voices fall silent, creation itself — the rocks and stones — will bear witness to our dignity. This is not only about Him, but about us: our identity, our life, our participation in creation’s ongoing testimony. Worth is inherent; experience of worth is relational and chosen.

When we disconnect from divinity, our perception becomes thorned, life appears as pain, dominance, and subordination. Through free will, we can realign with our intrinsic worth, transforming thorn into blossom, oppression into flourishing, and isolation into communion. Our choices determine whether we reinforce tombs or roll stones away to facilitate resurrection, renewal, and collective life.

Every thought, word, and action leaves an energetic imprint. Even stones, rivers, and trees participate in moral and spiritual reality, reflecting and responding to the orientation of human hearts. When our choices honor life, love, and relational reciprocity, the universe itself echoes that alignment back to us. When they serve supremacy, separation, or self-exaltation, the field of experience hardens, and the living truth of worth is obscured.

Our environment is responding to our energy. When we collectively say peace be still in alignment with our divine Creator, the elements themselves respond with balance. They become calm.

This is why it is so important that we examine the Bible through the life of Yeshua M’shīkhā.
Yeshua reveals how human interpretation, affected by the tares of supremacy, created the experience of empire and colonization — conquest, punishment, pain, and separation, the assertion of one over another instead of with in all the systems of our lives – in politics, religion, parenting, marriage, education, business, healthcare, friendship.

Instead of rising together in life, we have been conditioned to believe that to be profitable as our full selves someone else must sacrifice their life, their freedom, their choice, their equality.

Yeshua came to show us that God-with-us is all and only love — love that honors choice and creates space through respect of free will. This divine orientation allows reconnection with the assurance of continued life through resurrection, even when harm that seems to end life is inflicted, because the choice to remain inseparably with God transforms experience and restores alignment with intrinsic worth.

We are called to rise together, not in isolated ascent but in mutual flourishing. Every civilization, ancestral lineage, and spiritual tradition teaches this: human dignity, relational ethics, and community are inseparable from the experience of life itself. To rise alone is to risk collapse; to rise together is to co-create resurrection.

Practical applications:
1. Daily reflection: Pause to ask, “How am I perceiving my worth today? Am I responding to emotions as messengers or as engines?”
2. Choice awareness: Notice moments where fear, shame, or anger distort perception. Pause, breathe, and intentionally choose action aligned with intrinsic worth.
3. Relational calibration: Seek opportunities to support, elevate, and witness the worth of others, reinforcing the communal experience of dignity.
4. Energetic engagement: Acknowledge the living presence of creation in daily life. Actions that honor life, mutuality, and care contribute to a field of flourishing; actions rooted in dominance or separation reinforce barriers.
5. Christ-centered practice: Reflect on Yeshua’s example — practicing love that honors choice, creating space rather than control, and trusting in resurrection and restoration even when circumstances appear destructive.
6. Communal practice: Participate in rituals, dialogue, or creative acts that embody rising together, rolling stones away, and co-creating spaces for life, justice, and restoration.

May we rise as one-diversely-full, not to dominate, but to co-create life, to bear witness to worth, and to honour the sacred trust inherent in every being.

Shall we rise? I believe that we can – together – one-diversely-full. Tare free; with true liberty and justice for ALL.