Blessed Are The Peacemakers

Where scripture becomes seed, paradox becomes doorway, and story becomes surgery for the soul. Seven weeks. Seven lessons. One nervous system reborn.   Part 1: The Seed: Why Jesus Spoke in Parables When a memory forms, the brain sends tiny electrical signals across a gap between neurons. When that signal repeats, the bridge strengthens. Fire it again tomorrow and the next day, and the path becomes a road. Continue long enough, and the road becomes a highway. Neuroscientists call this long-term potentiation. Scripture calls it God writing His law upon the heart. It stirs wonder that the Creator of the brain chose stories as His primary medium for teaching souls. Jesus could have delivered lists, frameworks, or systematic instruction, yet He spoke of mustard seeds and fishermen, wheat and tares, lamps and coins, weddings and vineyards. He stretched eternity across daily life so that truth could be handled like bread and smelled like soil. Of course, He was perfectly capabl...

  Crash through the surface... A Symbolic Layer in the Parable of the Master’s House “Knowledge initiates, wisdom receives, guides and tempers. Knowledge can be dangerous unless it is informed by wisdom. Wisdom provides guidance and counsel to channel what comes from knowledge. Creation begins with the active initiative of knowledge, but order and harmony for the creation requires wisdom. Balance between them is required for an orderly creation to exist.” - Our Divine Parents Before anything else, a gentle orientation. When I use the words masculine and feminine here, I am not talking about men and women as groups. I am not assigning roles to genders or dividing the parable’s characters into male and female camps. I am speaking symbolically, the way scripture often does, about two spiritual patterns every human soul carries within it. Every one of us has stone and clay inside us, structure and softness, discipline and creativity, law and...