Abundant Life (IMHO of this day)

Ignorance is the way of want. Ignorance of the practice of equality, justice, respect, honor, and love pave a speedy road to want. Want is lack.


Ignorance is the way to degeneration and strife. What is a way to abundant life?


The understanding and and practice of love moves one to abundant life very well. Love is a good way. How is love understood? How is love practiced? It's a process. One could begin by getting clear about some meanings. Improve and extend your understanding of equality, justice, respect, and honor among men. Understanding the the interactions among the practice of law, justice, and equality as components of love helps. Knowing that love includes the best of respect and honor helps. Knowing that the heart of love is joyous nurturance is necessary. Learning that respectful, even reverent, nurturance makes love real, is vital.


A reader of the Bible may find help in getting on this road by noting that Jesus said that his purpose was to bring us abundant life. And then by going on to study the page or two of teachings after he says to love your God. There he points to the nature of love, He points to the knowledge and practice of love. He points to the process of learning to love. He tells the essentials and extent of doing it well. The readers must study, contemplate, and meditate well on his parables and examples. H makes it easy to begin.

How's Your Constitution?

What do we consider just? I bet you and I could identify some acts and processes that we both consider just.


One of the main reasons the writers and signers of the Constitution gave for that writing and signing was the establishment of justice among them.


What do we agree is just? How do we establish justice among us? What can we do to maintain justice in our lives?


Justice is related to rightness and faithfulness. What is a process that we can name and agree is right. A process is just, in part, to the extent that it agrees with the facts. Where do we get our facts?


When I think of justice I think of fairness. How do we agree on that which is fair to each of us?


How do you and I and the rest of us establish justice among us? What can we do to establish justice? How often? How can we make justice and keep it firm?


Can we learn to speak among ourselves a bit more effectively?




Justice has a lot to do with rightness and faithfulness. How do you and I agree on the right of it? How do we express rightness and our faithfulness to it?
Voting doesn't seem enough.

Love God

Most gods seem to agree that most love is good.


What most gods ask of us seems to be for our own good.


One of the things men say that gods ask of us is love.


Many say that a god considers love to be higher and easier than is is fairness and justice.


At least one god is said to have explained to us that to love is to find joy in nurturing one another.


For those who find it difficult to nurture and enjoy a number of other behaviors which approximate love are suggested. For example, we are told to avoid killing and greed.


Christians who cannot love are told that following the Ten Commandments has been a useful approximation

Constitutional Questions

I'd be very pleased to read your answers to the following questions:
~ How may justice be established?
~ What does it mean to establish justice?
~ For whom is justice to be established?
~ What is just?
~ What kind of contract is our Constitution?
~ How is it that the constitution is ours?
~ By what right is the constitution anyone's?
~ How is a contract made?
~ How is a contract sealed?
~ How might we establish justice?
~ What kind of justice do we agree to establish?
~ How much justice is to be established?
~ How is justice measured?
~ Who are the parties to the Constitution?
~ How can justice be made firm?
~ How can we establish rightness and faithfulness in conformance with the facts?

It Pleases Me

As a citizen of the United States I believe the following:
Our Constitution is a contract among us.
The Constitution is about cooperation.
The preamble is about why we agree to cooperate.
Its a statement of our motivation and that of the framers.

We each have our own understanding of the letter and spirit of the Preamble and the rest of the Constitution. Still, if we are to maintain our union, we need to agree on how we shall act on that understanding.
Our daily deciding on these acts among ourselves and our representatives is how we govern.
Understanding, agreeing, and cooperating on an act demands a lot of talk, a lot of communication.
Understanding and being understood is called for.
Understanding and being understood calls for some skill and some willingness to persist in the dialogue that keeps us united.

Its my understanding that we once agreed to be the supreme authority in this nation and state and that we provisionally delegate some authority to a federal government. Was that the case? Is it still the case?
I know I still feel the brotherhood, pride, and beauty of our united citizenship.

The following are my motives for being a citizen of this republic. I believe that they were the motives of the founders as well:
~ form a more perfect Union
~ establish Justice
~ insure domestic Tranquility
~ provide for he common defense
~ promote the general Welfare
~ secure the Blessing of Liberty

They chose these as their top goals for themselves and their posterity.

I note and applaud the words they choose to emphasise with capitalization.:
~ Liberty
~ Blessing
~ Welfare
~ Tranquility
~ Justice
~ Union
~ People

I love the meaning I find in these seven capitalized words.

A Corker

Mary Harris Jones was a Corker. She loved America and her community. She was also very fond of justice. She knew how to speak to a group and encouraged all to participate.


What gets you agitated?

Organization

Organization can be and ought to be lawful.
Organization can be and ought to be just.
Organization can be and ought to be honorable.
Lawful, just, and honorable organization can be and ought to be effective.

Organization begins and carries on with ongoing dialogue.

Social Injustice

How much longer is our top response to social injustice to be:
Take the key and lock them up,
Lock them up, lock them up, lock them up,
Take the key and lock them up?


There must be a cheaper solution.

Justice

There is better public action than justice; still, justice is the better part of  the public  activity we have now.