Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Is it a marriage or a partnership?



The intersection of marriage  and religion.
I think perhaps marriage is the greatest spiritual example mankind will ever be given. It can either be a great joy as oneness or unity or it can be great pain as a partnership of works. Most of the time people spend focused on the outworkings of marriage or the fruit of it but fail to see the root of where it is and should be founded. We have marriage counselors who assist couples in dealing with the issues and themselves cannot see the very basis of marriage many times is actually based in partnership not marriage.

So what is a marriage and what is a partnership? I guess it is relatively obvious so let’s start with partnership. When two people come together and put the word marriage on their relationship. When the relationship is based in self it will always strive to have needs met. A partnership is psychopathic by the very nature of where it is grounded and any who have been the victim of a psychopath know it is certainly not fun, refreshing or full of love. All partnership fail at some point. Usually as greed and power manifest with the perception of success.

Now while the romance propels the relationship it is a beautiful thing but we find over time a marriage can descend into partnership rather rapidly. I have needs that have to be met and many have the idea in marriage it is the other persons work to meet those needs. Where once sexual areas seemed to bring together, they now seem to separate and as time goes on it becomes a labor of love or a partnership of convenience.

Marriage is a thing of beauty when allowed to develop in the holy spirit of where it is born. It is in romance we find the spiritual key to ignite marriage and have two people unite as one. Yes spiritually they can connect but if they do not allow the freshness of the spirit, they will feel a connection but their actions repel. Yes the culture we have placed ourselves in demands so much and as we submit to these demands it only serves to separate and divide intimacy. Romantic intimacy is alive when there is no agenda, no purpose. One cannot mistaken sexual areas for romance. They are an outflowing of romance but they do not generate romance or sustain romance. Without getting into this area too deeply let’s just say, when sex is based in lust it is psychopathic and destructive to romance.

True intercourse is when a man and a woman come together in a spiritual journey of life. As they merge there is no self, there is no “me” it becomes one. It becomes one action, one individual made up of two. This unit moves as one, loves as one, ignites as one, and shares passion for unification. Not for a moment but rather for a lifetime. The lifetime is in-comprehendible and is not a reason it is a symptom of love that is alive. As sexual areas descend into the desires of “me” then the marriage itself begins on its spiral downward to a partnership.

A man wants his sexual needs met and the woman wants her emotional connection and never the twain shall meet. I have often wondered why God created man and woman so vastly different in sexual areas. Then as I saw the beauty of romance with God it became clear why. Yes as marriage matures the romance deepens and strengthens. This change of pace transfers into sexual areas and many fail to move with that flow. They look back to what was and fail to live the moment and enjoy the “now”.

Not to mistaken romance for sex. As a young (not necessarily in age) man and woman we find romance involved crazy actions of being irresponsible and spontaneous. But as depth comes one must allow the life of a marriage to breathe. The original romance drew together and culminated in marriage now romance no longer draws together it is an outflow of “one”. Not to be mistaken for actions romance has become a state of being not of doing. Only as a marriage wastes time together with no purpose can they discover the true flavor of the true poetic symphony they now “BE”(as a state).

In spiritual unity the two have now become one and as one, they do not do things for each other to keep a happy marriage. To journey as one and just “be” the needs of the other are ministered to in a complete way. Needs get met, by just spending time together and savoring the completeness of who we have become. Again the culture around us demands or screams for changes. Money, kids, work, homes etc become a focus and as we convince ourselves we are being responsible we fail to see we have surrendered the out-workings of our marriage and are descending into a partnership. All partnerships fail in time!

The issue for many has been their spirits are merged down deep in their inner being but their actions divided. So when you talk to the divorced they will almost always say there is still a connection to their previous partner. The bible says it this way. “what God joins nobody can separate”. Divorcees may hate each other and never see each other but they still feel joined in some way.

Yes there is hope for marriage and as one surrenders to the spiritual romance of their life they will discover immense now passion of life. Perhaps we should say “religion steals intimacy”. Religion ultimately is man worshiping himself in humanistic systems he has fabricated to hide in and convince himself he is not about himself. Religion steals intimacy and that religion may be sports or church or business or money. As mankind walks religion he surrenders intimacy. Really the answer is simple and pure. As inside every man, woman and child there is a romantic pulling. Something birthed in their gift and usually smothered by culture. This secret place of the creative draws us to unity with God and mankind. As we first and foremost yield our identity to the spiritual drawing within then true unity comes. As we must lose our life to find it and we can only lose our life as we allow true spiritual romance to be alive in us. Not by actions but by the very nature of our deep spirit calling to deep. This is what Jesus is all about what a travesty religion makes Jesus about partnership and using him to get. Maybe why so many struggle in faith they were never married to the Godhead.

Perhaps the greatest example of a spiritual marriage that nobody can ever explain naturally is the Godhead.

Thursday, December 22, 2016

The truth about truth



Truth is debated and oft related
To opinions and perspectives that are relegated
Unfounded yet true, or false to a few
Regardless of source it’s never new.

Found in a lie and always debase
Remain arguable truths in every case.
Talk being cheap and never complete
Enhances pride and enriches defeat

Truth based on truth is never assumed
It is rarely spoken and never consumed
There is never question, life always unveils
Not in debate but in hidden details.

Those who have grasped it are as lost as the masses
Those who preach it will be exposed as asses
For truth has a way of setting one free
Never in public and always silently.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

It cant be sung - it goes beyond the words an expression of sorts




I was burned by life 
now I'm consumed in flame one can’t see.
A pure fire of life love and passion for the free

The flame is bright and it burns so strong
that it brings a great divide
yeah beyond the fire and into the flame
I am a great divide

It dissolves the pain
it melts the fear
bringing life to the core of man
cause it steals the pain
it ignites the flame

This romantic fire is beyond the grave
eternal spirit is alive
yield to the fire
never be burned 
as the romance steal the pain

Yes spirit it provides
eternal is that flame
that steals while it provides…..

so fear is gone as the flame consumed
igniting this passion for life
true life it does provide
that fire it stole my mortal life
in joy it did provide

so there’s a passion in the journey
that ignited a pure romance
burns the inner regions of a man
eternal is the flame
that steals while it provides.

This romance goes beyond the grave
its life built from death 
creating building loving the freedom
it steals while it provides.

Do you know the romance 
can you feel the fire
Its calls inside of you
A romance born of endless love
that steals while it provides