ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life

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Summary of Ordinary Life for January 19, 2025

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Dear Ones -

This week in Ordinary Life I began by elaborating on the fact that teachings about “the wayless way” are not easy, not a quick fix, and can be “upsetting.”

However, understanding the birth stories created about Jesus can open to door to a better and deeper understanding of the way.

In trying to comprehend the teachings we must keep ever before us the context in which they were originally created. Caesar was called “Lord,” “Son of God,” “Bringer of Peace,” and “Savior of the World.” To claim these titles for Jesus would be seen either as a joke or as treasonous. The only power the followers of Jesus had was ideological, or theological, power. That is to say, the power to give meaning. There are specific and concrete lessons we can learn from the “wise men” that we can use to guide us on living the “wayless way” in this time.

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Be well and much love,

Bill Kerley

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