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1 Wisdom s Invitation to the Table I think I jumped the gun last week when I did midrash on the John 6: That s okay. I want to take another look at it from the point of view of wisdom a decided theme in this week s readings. We have Sophia/Wisdom inviting the simple to come and eat and drink at her table. The foolish are welcome. At her table, they will receive insight. This in turn will enable all who partake of her feast to mature (Proverbs 9:6). We have Solomon praying, not for long life, or for personal wealth or power, but for wisdom the capacity to discern what is right and to be able to discern the difference between good and evil. And we have Jesus, the embodiment of the living bread of heaven (the Wisdom of G_d),, inviting the community to eat his flesh and drink his blood. S/he herself has become the feast of Wisdom that the writer of Proverbs refers to. In this text, the title Son of Man, or Child of the Human One is used. As I ve written elsewhere this refers to Ezekiel s vision, wherein the the Human One is lifted up to the throne of G_d. As New Testament scholar, and others, have written, this could well refer to a vision of the archetypal Human, realized in Jesus of Nazareth. This suggests that to realize our deep Humanity is to realize our divinity. This is what our evolutionary task is for humans. It is not to become divine, but become human, and thereby realize this particular (human) aspect of the divine.

2 Here, the Passover feast of the Jews a feast of liberation is transformed into the Christian eucharist, at which the bread and wine become material channels through which the participants in the feast participate in, and are transformed by, the eternal life of the Christ. Three things happen in this feast for Christians: 1. We become authentically human by feasting on the (continuing) presence of the True Human. 2. We awaken to the reality of eternal life by feasting on the spiritual presence of the one who has been raised from the dead. 3. We realize the wisdom of the One who was Wisdom incarnate. This is no small matter. Through participation in this feast our minds are transformed, so that we, with Solomon are able to discern the difference between good and evil, and enact good. We come back to our right mind, a Christ mind, in a world that is traumatized by foolishness and evil. Now, I have to say that personally, I never experienced what I described above during the eucharist maybe because I was alway so busy presiding. But I don t question the experience. Something mystical happened in these early communities. I believe that the doors of perception were actually opened in this feast, and that these things were actually, directly experienced by the early community, and in mystics throughout the ages.

3 I d be interested in hearing about your mystical experiences during the Eucharist. Please leave a comment. John 6: :51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. 6:52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 6:53 So Jesus said to them, Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 6:54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; 6:55 for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 6:56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 6:57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever. Proverbs 9:1-6 9:1 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars. 9:2 She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table. 9:3 She has sent out her servant girls, she calls from the highest places in the town,

4 9:4 You that are simple, turn in here! To those without sense she says, 9:5 Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. 9:6 Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight. 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 2:10 Then David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David. 2:11 The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 2:12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was firmly established. 3:3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David; only, he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places. 3:4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 3:5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I should give you. 3:6 And Solomon said, You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today. 3:7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

5 3:8 And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people, so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted. 3:9 Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people? 3:10 It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. 3:11 God said to him, Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches, or for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 3:12 I now do according to your word. Indeed I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you. 3:13 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you. 3:14 If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life. Seeing as there are so various families buying online and likewise exploring the internet market place, it has become increasingly famous to purchase medications online. So the next question is where can you get information that is reliable. You can find useful info fleetly and conveniently by going online. The most common sexual problems in men are erectile disfunction and ejaculation disorders. A lot of doctors think about levitra cost. Did learned something about buy levitra online usa? Other matter we are going to is buy generic levitra online. In effect, a medical reviews found that up to three quarters of folk on such remedy experiment side effects. Luckily, most cases of sexual dysfunction are treatable, so it is momentous to share your

6 concerns with your associate and physician. Today, there are many options for men who suffer from erectile dysfunction. Get emergency help if you have any of these signs of a side effect to this medication. Talk to your heartiness care purveyor to see if it s sure to make the switch. Donkey Riding Midrash on Palm Sunday (Text below) Theologians and mystics have long looked to the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels as the pattern for what it means to be human for eternal souls to incarnate and complete or perfect what Jesus called the Son of the Human One ( son of man ). When the story of Jesus dramatic entry into Jerusalem is told on Palm Sunday, it is also our story. I see this as Jesus coming out. His triumphal entry is an enacted parable. There is no turning back after the procession. Scholars have long recognized this as a fulfillment of Zechariah s prophecy that the saviour would come riding a donkey. Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey (Zech.9:9).

7 In their book, The Last Week, Dom Crossan and Marcus Borg, point out that Jesus entry wasn t the only show going on in town at Passover. As Jesus rode in from the east, the Roman governor, who much preferred his beach retreat at Caesarea by the Sea, would rally the troops and ride triumphantly into Jerusalem from the west, as a show of power and force during Passover just in case the crowds got any ideas about insurrection. Their mode of transport were war horses, not donkeys. The entry would have inspired not so much hope or awe as fear and resentment. Atop a donkey, feet dragging in the dust, Jesus entry represents an almost comical and pathetic counter-narrative. Jesus made a decision, that whatever the cost, he would make a proclamation and back it up with his life, that the power of love trumped the power of force, and that his own destiny was irrevocably tied to the former. The crowd shouts Hosanna anticipating that Jesus would deliver Israel from the guys entering from the other side of the city. Originally an appeal for deliverance (Heb. hosia na, Please save Psalm 118:25 ), Hosanna came in liturgical usage to serve as an expression of joy and praise for deliverance granted or anticipated. But what they may not have grocked was that Jesus way of delivering the people would require their full participation. He wasn t going to be the new King of Israel. He wouldn t defeat Rome with their methods, but in and through a movement of people who trusted that the only lasting deliverance would be when the hearts of all were transformed through love. Yes, it would have political implications, as people withdrew their allegiance to an old political order and an old way of

8 organizing life. But ultimately, it would require everyone who saw Jesus as the pattern of what it is to be fully human to find their own unridden colt and make their way. And this is, of course, where the story of Palm Sunday is your story. What would it look like for you to go all the way, to be all in, in terms of this procession of love? Are you willing, not merely to be a bystander and wave your palm branch as Jesus goes by, but far more importantly to make arrangements for your own procession into Jerusalem the heart of Reality? Have you sensed that this is your destiny? Do you still have escape clauses or is there really no going back? Psalm 118:1-2, :1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever! 118:2 Let Israel say, His steadfast love endures forever. 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. 118:20 This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. 118:21 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. 118:22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. 118:23 This is the Lord s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. 118:24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. 118:25 Save us, we beseech you, O LORD! O LORD, we beseech you, give us success! 118:26 Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD.

9 We bless you from the house of the LORD. 118:27 The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar. 118:28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God, I will extol you. 118:29 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Mark 11: :1 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 11:2 and said to them, Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 11:3 If anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? just say this, The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.' 11:4 They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, 11:5 some of the bystanders said to them, What are you doing, untying the colt? 11:6 They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. 11:7 Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. 11:8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. 11:9 Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name

10 of the Lord! 11:10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven! 11:11 Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Seeing as there are so various families buying online and likewise exploring the internet market place, it has get increasingly famous to purchase medications online. So the next question is where can you get data that is reliable. You can find useful data fleetly and conveniently by going online. The most common sexual problems in men are erectile dysfunction and ejaculation disorders. A lot of doctors think about levitra cost. Did learned something about buy levitra online usa? Other matter we are going to is buy generic levitra online. In effect, a medical reviews found that up to three quarters of folk on such preparation experiment side effects. Luckily, most cases of sexual dysfunction are treatable, so it is momentous to share your concerns with your associate and physician. Today, there are many options for men who suffer from erectile disfunction. Get emergency help if you have any of these signs of a side effect to this treatment. Talk to your health care provider to see if it s sure to make the switch. The Days Are Surely Coming

11 It s an honour to be invited to preach as part of the celebration of your 85 th anniversary. As I reviewed your Mission Statement I was particularly impressed by your collective ownership of being co-creators of a world that works for all. There is a lot packed in to that statement, and if I may this morning, I d like to offer some meanings and implications that arise for me when I read it as an evolutionary theologian. It is perhaps no accident that I was available to be with you on a Sunday that both celebrates your anniversary and is the first Sunday of Advent the start of a new year in the liturgical calendar. I remember being surprised ten years into my ministry that the season of Advent was not about waiting for the baby Jesus to be born. I could never figure out what we were really supposed to be doing. I guess I thought we were involved in a kind of collective suspension of disbelief, and that the better we could pretend that he was going to born again on Christmas morning, the more meaningful Christmas would be. Of course, it s good to remember the legend of Jesus birth. The collective re-enactment of in children s pageants certainly has its charms. But then I read somewhere that Advent was never about waiting for the birth of Jesus. It was a season of anticipating the return of Jesus. This explains why the readings for the first Sunday of Advent are apocalyptic. It s why every Advent begins with the reading of the so-called mini-apocalypse. 21:25 There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. 21:26 People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be

12 shaken. 21:27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 21:28 Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. 21:29 Then he told them a parable: Look at the fig tree and all the trees; 21:30 as soon as they sprout leaves you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near. 21:31 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. 21:32 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things have taken place. We don t know if Jesus believed literally that a son of man was coming in the near future, or indeed if he believed that he himself was that apocalyptic figure from Daniel s prophecy. Certainly, the early church was waiting for his return, and it represented a crisis of its own kind when he didn t actually physically return. New Testament scholar, Dominic Crossan, believes that Jesus preached and enacted what he calls a wisdom apocalypse. It wasn t a crisis that was going to happen at a prescribed date in the future, the way a few modern day fundamentalist

13 Christians claim. It was more like if we actually heard the deep intelligence of what Jesus was saying, then indeed the powers of the heavens would be shaken here and now. Divine wisdom would overturn the ways of the world, and this itself would constitute a crisis or a reckoning. It s hard to know what he means exactly by the powers of the heavens, but I suspect that the modern prophet and poet, Leonard Cohen, believed that they were associated with the blizzard of the world in his song The Future. Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won t be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT they meant. I wonder what The blizzard of the world is the earthly counterpart of the powers of the heavens, following the ancient cosmological principle of as in heaven so on Earth. It is a personal, cultural, and social order that is functioning contrary to

14 divine wisdom. Cohen, like Jesus, perceives that a tipping point had been reached. The only way forward was to turn around, or repent. For those with ears to hear the wisdom that was coming through the soul of Jesus, a new order emerges, an order of beauty and coherence and love. In the presence of such wisdom, the old order must give way. Notice that although Jesus language is apocalyptic, what he says is profoundly hopeful. That s not to say that the signs are not ominous. They are, and they must be taken seriously. Today we might interpret the signs as ecological degradation, political corruption, and unequal distribution of wealth in the social and political domain. In the cultural domain, we might recognize the signs as a kind of hyper-individualism and the collapse of meaningful community life. In the personal domain, we don t need to look much further than the rise of all manner of addiction in the Western world alcohol, drugs, work, sugar, caffeine, and sex to name a few. In the political realm, the fact that citizens can elect and support a character like Rob Ford might also be interpreted as a sign of end times! These are all signs that something about the order of the world as it now stands is profoundly alienating. The order of the soul has been obscured by the blizzard that is the spell of conventional reality. The signs that Jesus refers to are cosmological in scope, in that he depicts the heavens and Earth as participating in signaling the end of that world that is not aligned with divine wisdom. But again, notice how it ends with deep hope. 21:28 Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. 21:29 Then he told them a parable: Look at the fig tree and all the trees;

15 21:30 as soon as they sprout leaves you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near. 21:31 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. 21:32 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things have taken place. When the seas roar, the mountains smoke, the heavenly bodies leave their orbits, and the people start fainting, look up for your redemption is drawing near. When your life feels like it s coming apart, or you nothing but deadness in your heart, look up. These are signs that new life is about to sprout, that you are getting ready for a new order. Your redemption is drawing near. When political regimes are willing to kill their own people in order to hold on to a idolatrous political system, look up. When a greed-driven capitalist system becomes an idol that must be ideologically defended no matter at what cost to Earth her biosystems, and the growing majority of planetary citizens, look up. When your beloved Church is falling apart and dwindling in numbers, look up. For your redemption is drawing near! Huh? I don t believe that Jesus was expecting G_d to come down from heaven and rescue humanity from our ignorance, and I don t believe that he believed that his life was meant for some kind of divine rescue mission either. This is where evolutionary theology can be helpful to understand both the wisdom-logic of Jesus and the identity of Jesus himself. God doesn t make episodic interventions intervening say, to help the Roughriders win the Grey Cup, but choosing not to intervene in Syria or to end a deadly typhoon. That s a grotesque theology that never made any sense to me. When you hear the word evolution, what comes to mind? For most people it s Darwin, dinosaurs, and DNA. And yes, the evolutionary process includes the physical realm. But

16 evolution is not simply an external process. It has a correlative interior dimension, and guess what, you are it, all of you at Leaside United. You are the presence of the evolutionary process this 13.8 billion year process of staggering creative energy waking up to itself and shaping a future a future now capable of being shaped, less by chance and more by choice. In my theology, the evolutionary process is animated by a divine wisdom, that is, by an Intelligence that desires an increase in conscious awareness, in beauty, and in love. How do we know this is true? It s very simple. Ask yourself what you most deeply want at the soul level. You ll find that you soul is yearning for more beauty, more wholeness of being, and for more love. And since you are the interior dimension of this intelligent and evolving process awakening to itself, when you hear the divine wisdom of a Jesus of Nazareth, your soul awakens. You recognize his words, because his wisdom words were fed from, and are an expression of, the same place from which your own soul is animated. It s the light that the hidden light of your soul is drawn to. And here is the beauty of the creative unfolding of the universe that Darwin called evolution: it thrives on crisis. It loves apocalypse. In the Greek, the word means a revealing, a tearing back of the curtain of illusion so that we can see what is really there, and how we re meant to actually live. Crises are inherent in the unfolding of the universe. This is as true at the soul level as it is at the large-scale structures of the universe and life at the biological level. An exploding star, that scientists call a supernova, is a cataclysm of the greatest order. Talk about a sign in the heavens! And yet the crisis that is a supernova is what enabled us to be sitting here together this morning,

17 reflecting on the meaning of life, and the emergence of a new order of wisdom. All the heavy elements required for the emergence of life on Earth were forged in the aftermath of a supernova. Earth herself has been through countless cataclysms, including five previous extinctions. And anyone of here this morning, upon reflection, understands that it is often the very presence of one kind of personal crisis or another death, illness, loss of relationship that triggered a transformation of consciousness, and the birth of a new identity. After all this crisis, and cataclysm, here we are. When evolution is interpreted, not as a result of meaningless, random chance, but rather as the presence of a staggering intelligence that is patiently proceeding toward deeper, higher, and broader expression of beauty, truth, and goodness, we are confronted with a profound mystery: the crisis is the birth. Look for the bud, as Jesus puts it poetically. Summer is drawing near. We don t need to conjure up some metaphysical pie-in-the-sky theology that bases our hope in a divine intervention that interrupts the natural order of things. Rather, embedded (or implicate) in the order of things is a natural grace. Jesus, of course, was more poetic and a far better storyteller than most scientists. Instead of crises or cataclysm, Jesus uses the signs. These signs that look for all the world like the end, and we ll see, in a real sense they are, the end of one order: yet they are to be seen by the faithful as analogous to new buds on a fig tree. They signal a new season, or a new order. The crisis, in an evolutionary paradigm, is the provocation of new and necessary intelligences required to meet the challenge of the crisis and allow for the emergence of more elegant forms forms of consciousness, forms of culture, forms of societal systems. And this is where your mission statement I believe is so

18 important. To call yourself co-creators of a world that works for everybody is actually to grasp your essential, creative nature. You are individually, and collectively, the presence of this evolutionary intelligence. You are the embodiment, and the en-soulment of the same creativity out of which a universe emerged and continues to develop. To assume the status of co-creator, is to really grasp this. The universe is creating in you, through you, and as you. As you combine your own inherent creative nature to bring forth the world that your hearts know is possible (Charles Eisenstein), with the creativity of this community and the worldwide community, you become the buds that are springing forth. You become the new thing in the prophet Isaiah s words that is springing forth now and now and now. You become the creative response to the crisis that we are facing as an Earth community. In you, natural selection becomes actual selection. It s an awesome and let s face it, frightening responsibility that you ve embraced. This brings me back to Advent and what in the world we think we re waiting for? The second coming is not about the literal return of Jesus. That s not what we re waiting expectantly for during Advent. What we re waiting for is the emergence of a new humanity. The apocalyptic image of the son of man is a metaphor for the new human. Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard calls this new human homo universalis. Or you could call it homo Christus the Christic human, the human who lives by Christ consciousness. This is the human being who has awoken to his or her big identity as the presence of this Spiritdriven, love-allured, creative process in human form, who is on this Earth, as was Jesus to be a redemptive force. These are the ones who embrace the practice of consciously evolving, individually and as a collective, in and toward deeper realizations of love. In the words of Paul, these are the ones

19 who have consented to letting the heart and mind that was in Jesus of Nazareth (divine wisdom and love) to animate their souls. In the Advent season, rather than get ourselves in a consumerist frenzy, (which I know none of us are doing), we allow the deepening darkness to be a womb for the birth of this new humanity, in us. Does this seem hubristic? I don t think it is. In an evolutionary paradigm a core meaning of the life of a Jesus of Nazareth is that he becomes the assurance that the universe is now capable of a certain kind of human presence. Just like the universe needed to lay down the foundations of various physical systems, including digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and sensory in order for the human species to emerge, so Jesus is an incarnation of the interior dimensions of the evolutionary process. The universe is capable of his awakened consciousness, his divine wisdom, and his human courage. He represents the in breaking of a new order of humanity. His humanity was so developed that his early followers were convinced that he was also fully divine, and I would add, fully cosmic. In other words, the first coming of a Jesus is not an interruption of the natural order, but rather an eruption of natural grace, or an intensification of the entire spirit-infused cosmic process. The universe is now capable of all that we associate with Jesus of Nazareth. Which means, wait for it, that the universe wants to do more of what was going in Jesus. So, when you affirm that you are co-creators, you re going to want to do your co-creating with at least the heart and mind and courage that made Jesus such an exemplar of the new human the new human (the son of man ) that is coming.

20 The prophet Jeremiah possesses this same unexpected confidence in the midst of crisis as Jesus. The days are surely coming Surely coming. The day of redemption is surely drawing near. When evolution is interpreted not as a godless process, but a divine strategy for making a world that works for everybody, a trajectory toward an increase in wholeness, beauty, compassion, and justice becomes unmistakable. Yes, it s possible to pay attention, as do our media, only to the dark and desperate aspects of the human condition. But doing so misses an undeniable progress in human rights. For most of civilization, slavery was believed to be the natural order of things. Until it wasn t, and then suddenly everyone knew that it was morally repugnant. The same is true of equal rights for women, the physically and mentally challenged, gays, lesbians, and transsexuals, and even the rights of animals. Even where these rights are not enacted, there is a growing general consensus that it s morally and ethically wrong to deny equal rights to any of these groups. Author Jeremy Rifkin exhaustively documents the evolution of empathy in the human condition over the history of our species in his book The Empathic Impulse. Jeremiah is confident that a Righteous Branch is springing up. Think of this Righteous Branch as those to whom it has been revealed that right alignment with divine wisdom, this deep cosmic intelligence, is the future. This doesn t happen magically. It happens when human beings listen to the yearnings of their own soul to fall in love with the same Heart and Mind out of which a universe emerged and continues to emerge. This divine Heart and Mind wants to be realized, in and through, the likes of you Leaside co-creators. The second coming we are expecting in Advent is the birth of a new

21 humanity that is fired with the same heart and mind that was in Jesus of Nazareth. This is the coming son of man the human being fully alive, fully ensouled, and fully fired with divine wisdom. So in Advent, we let the crisis deepen, we face into it. And we do so with confidence that a new order is coming, a new humanity, and that by some mysterious grace, we constitute that new order. The day is surely coming, when humans will face into their personal and collective trauma, and discover that behind a life constructed and obscured by fear, is a heart that just wants to love. The day is surely coming, when the new human will wake up from this obsession with, and service to, a phantom economy, and put their trust in the soul s yearning for more beauty, truth, and goodness. The day is surely coming, when the new human will hear the cries of their Mother Earth, and return to her deep wisdom to learn the way forward. The day is surely coming, when the new human will shift from being a consumer to a planetary citizen of a single Earth community. The day is surely coming, when the new human will realize that, truly, she is a co-creator of a world that works for all. Thank you Leaside United for historical witness in this neck of the woods for 85 years, and for having the courage to be the Righteous Branch, out of which a new future is springing forth.

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