Master Jesus Mission House Cortez. Home stretch
8/22/25 Update: the pressure on James mounts. It isn't over till it's over but it certainly looks like this house will have been purchased by mid-september. No known obstacles are apparent.
Jesus said, he that knows the Lord's will, and does not prepare himself, nor act according to his Lord's will, shall be beaten with many stripes. Gulp.
I can only imagine how Jesus my Lord, my master, is evaluating his Apprentice James here, but I sure am imagining that. And the Matrix above is a beginning of how I will learn to think about how to avoid those stripes. Ouch.
AAnd as an apprentice to jesus, in my imagination, I want to make his eternal rehab team which is the only Heaven I can imagine wanting to be in. How might he be evaluating candidates for that team? How might he be evaluating james?
Master Jesus Mission House:
That's as accurately as I can put it. What? Me as a disciple of the man jesus, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. No, sadly, tragically, horribly, I didn't know that was my dream, but looking back, that has always been my dream. But it is taking me almost 75 years to find the courage and conviction to pursue it. Isn't that terrible?
Disciple is a charged term, but I don't use it that way. For me nothing more or less than declaring myself a devoted student, disciplined, determined. Not a badge of honor, rather a clear declaration against which I could be measured. Should be measured. Hope to be measured. Measure myself.
Today I signed the insurance, and if there is anything that might prevent the purchase of this house, master Jesus mission house, then my team is not telling me, and I think they're being quite open. Looks like clear sailing to September 15th closing.
A new Clarity came to me within the last couple of days. If it is offensive to anyone I am sorry about that. If there is anyone in the world that anyone should want to emulate as completely and fully as they can, it is the man jesus.
And if there is anyone in the world that has been carefully and safely cordoned off from being emulated, it is the man jesus. It is all I can do to keep from exploding in sadness and rage.
If I could ignore his hundreds of teachings, I could believe that he wanted to be worshiped, and not followed, the way every great leader wants to be followed. But I can't dismiss those hundreds, thousands, of teachings in Matthew Mark Luke and john.
I absolutely could ignore if they didn't fit like a glove. If they didn't make me feel like I was becoming the human being that we were all designed to be, God's way, Not man's way. But they do. More and more and more and more and more.
It makes me horrified to realize how I had to figure this out on my own at almost 75 years of age, that I don't want to be protected from his harsh teachings. Any more than a passionate gymnast that wants to be the best that there ever was, wants to be protected by their coach from any truth and reality! Or that an Ardent medical healer wants to be protected from the quickest hardest most honest regimen for becoming the best possible healer . That's not hard to understand. But 2,000 years have made it impossible to understand with respect to the Healer jesus. They want the coach to help them embrace and meet the challenges, and quickly as effectively , not to deny them!
What true athlete wants to be protected from the challenges of their sport? None! They want to be helped to engage those as quickly and thoroughly as possible because that's where the joyful Abundant Life is. And for the healer, that's where the ability to help is.
I don't know what it means that this property if it closes will be Master Jesus mission house, but I didn't arrive at that notion because I like it, I arrived as everyday teaches me how difficult it will be to implement what needs to be implemented. And each of these words and the words in combination will be helpful I think to anyone and everyone engaged with the house and understanding what it is.
Yesterday I went through the list of 350 core teachings that I find in the four gospels. They leave out no core teachings, but they do eliminate redundancies.
And I thought to myself, what belongs on the walls of Master Jesus mission house? And this list of about 75 is what is now rendered. Either in hard copy on the walls, or projected on a wall, or both, for now these are the 75 subject to input from others and no one has an interest so far to input on any of this. Fact. Demonstrable fact.
My best Outlook is that this entire project will continue to be a, from a material standpoint, an extraordinary failure. Exactly as I see that Jesus attempt to get others to follow his way, his truth, his life, and no one else's, the most extraordinary failure in human history. But I am elated, I am full of Joyful abundant life, at the attempt I am being allowed to make here.
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