The Renegade Doc Comments

I have a young friend who needs some direction in life.

His Mom would love to see him involved in a Martial Arts program because the right kind of martial arts instruction is more than just learning how to fight and throwing your body around.

It is a total body-mind-spirit discipline, exactly what the Renegade Doc talks about throughout this blog.

Mom, in her intuitive wisdom, found a Master who embodies the principles for which she is looking for her son.

You can read more here on his website.

Or here.

I love the approach, the discipline and the mindset.

They offer a Scholarship Program which is in need of donations.

Use this link:

And I have also posted it on the sidebar to make it easier to find in the future.

Wonder if they’ll let a gray-haired guy like me join?

Blessings,

Dr Jon
Renegade Doc

In talking with friends in the past I have likened our relationship with Father to riding a motorcycle.

You generally have two choices when riding:

• Be the driver, on front, or
• Be on back.

Until now I have pointed out that most of us tell Father to get on back, we’ll be OK driving.

In that analogy we are basically telling Father to get lost, we are in control, we don’t Him.

In contrast, we get on back and let Him do the driving.  He can take us wherever He wants, at whatever speed He wants, through whatever weather conditions He wants – and we can do nothing about it.

If you have ever ridden on the back of a motorcycle you know what I am talking about.  It can be very scary and very exhilarating at the same time!  Either way you have to trust the driver and flow with him or you will never get on that bike again!

Of course, in this life Father asks and hopes that we will lean in and talk into His ear to let him know how we are doing back there and dialogue with Him about the whole experience.

However, recently I have graduated up from the motorcycle in my analogy to a bicycle!

That really is a graduation, a growing, because Life is about Choice, and it really is about independence, but with a twist.

In spite of what we have been taught by church and religion, and the oft-used phrase, usually of resignation, and often of despair, “God is in control,” Father REALLY ISN’T in control.

Now at some deep layer He is in control and could wrap this whole human/Earth planet thing up in a blink.  But at the level we all live in, He has chosen to NOT be in control.

That is the point!!

It’s called Free Will, Choice, Relationship.

So here’s where the bike analogy comes in.

When young and just getting our legs under us, your Dad probably got you a bike and probably put the training wheels on.  As you got some balance and confidence and developed some skill with the bike, the training wheels likely came off.

Then, at some point, whether you had the wheels or not, your Dad (say, or someone important in your life) probably ran alongside, holding on and helping you keep the bike upright.

But soon he let go and there you were, on your own, independent, a big boy/girl, wobbling down the road.

Soon thereafter you could ride without wobbling and with real confidence and skill.

Now here’s where the Choice comes in – the good stuff, the point of Life.

Most of us, when we became great riders, when the wobbles quit, headed down the road on our own to learn and explore and see how good we really were.  Most of us probably never thought to turn around and see what Dad was doing after he let go.

I believe that Father continues to stand there, with pride beaming out of His eyes for us, but longing in His heart for us to come back and invite Him to go riding with us, to lead us on ever more difficult and skill-testing trails, to join us in the adventure, to share Life with us.

Most of us go on and do all those things on our own, never checking in with Father to see if He has any wisdom to share, any ideas to offer, any tips to demonstrate.  And we miss out on His companionship and the shared experience.  We miss the thrill of learning from the Master Bikerider.  We never get the affirmation of our skill by hearing Him say for us to take the lead and see where the trail will take us.

Because we are so busy being totally independent we miss the dialogue, the relationship, the companionship, the bonding, the mutual appreciation, the growth, the instruction.

And so does He.

Let’s ride our bikes WITH Father.

Blessings,

Dr Jon
Renegade Doc

Does your life ever feel like it is spinning out of control?
Are there too many things going on, too many tasks to do, too many decisions to make?  Do you feel stuck?

Mine feels like that a lot of the time and especially these last few days.

There are lots of issues:

• My day job is not my dream or purpose in life.  I’m using it to try to get out of debt.
• That debt came about as an attempt to operate the family business with the intention of bettering life for all of us. Instead it has me by the throat and is a huge burden.
• My father-in-law is in a nursing home, separate from his wife of 68 years and, in spite of family choices to the contrary, he really needs to come here to live and to be cared for.  But how would we keep the jobs and do that too?
• My boys are growing up.  One is a senior in college and is finally making the bigger break and won’t be home except for short visits in the future.  The other is older and now moving away to pursue life in a totally different direction (a good thing).
• The older son is selling his mowing business as part of his moving on.  I could buy it, both to help him out and to help me out in terms of getting outdoors and being more active (the day job as a desk jockey is killing me).  But I can’t do both jobs and the mowing is seasonal.
• My deep heart, my purpose in life, is to open a nude healing center where you can come and have a “Garden of Eden” experience (without the serpent) that will bring life and freedom and true, deep healing into your life.

The question in all this overwhelms: how can this all happen?  How do I make enough money?  How do I get past the social issues and misunderstanding and sexual aberrations surrounding nudity?  Will healing really occur?  Can it occur?  How do I decide about the lawn mowing versus the job?

So this morning I did the only thing there is, really, to do.

I went deep inside.

I got centered.

Some might call it meditation.  I am calling it getting centered, listening to Father. Gerald O’Donnell calls it going deep within, becoming one with your breath, becoming the light, connecting to the One Mind, the One.

In the analogy of “spinning out of control”, it is moving off the edge of the spinning record and going back to the center where there is no movement at all, just stillness.

It is another example of “keep it simple, keep it childlike, keep it naked.”

In this place answers will come, Father can speak, the light within can shine, the path can be seen.

“Be still and know….”

Let’s be still, be centered, and let ourselves get in the flow of Life.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

This is the third and final part to my personal mantra: “Keep it Simple, Keep it Childlike, Keep it Naked”.  (Be sure to read the previous two parts as well to get the whole picture).

This is also the hardest part to write and I have been putting it off for at least a couple of years.

Why?

All the usual reasons:

• fear of going against the crowd (REALLY Renegade!)
• fear of moving into my place and purpose on the planet which will also deliver my message to the planet
• fear of getting really “naked” with myself and my readers.

But the time has come and here we go……..

First, I am using the word “naked” on purpose to not only get  your attention but also to make a point.

Second, some/most will have all sorts of negative reactions to the idea of nakedness because of the way we have been trained.  Some may accuse me of being a sexual pervert or may think I am talking about sexual behavior.

Let me assure you, I am not a sexual pervert, I am not talking about sexual behavior, and I have also had all the same negative reactions because of having had the same training.

But, in the final analysis, I can’t escape the concept called “naked”.  As a physician become a massage therapist, I have realized that the willingness and ability to get “naked” spiritually, emotionally and even physically is crucial for true, deep and lasting healing of ourselves and our planet.

This must all begin with a story.

The state of Florida required that all seniors take a course on Americanism vs. Communism.  As part of that we of course studied Marx’s The Communist Manifesto.  We had a great teacher who explained that at least part of the reason for Marx’s communist philosophy was an attempt to discover or build a Utopian society and that this was just another in a long line of philosophies and attempts to do the same.  (Interesting isn’t it that Marx had a very religious upbringing!

(I should add that his ideas were taken by others who turned them to their own ambitions and thus made them something totally different and harmful.  I am aware that this could easily be done with what I write here.)

Something inside me clicked and I thought: “That’s it. That’s the whole point of being on the planet.”  And I was caught from that moment on, though it has taken me this long to realize and articulate how impactful this was for me.  From that moment something inside began to look for a “Utopia” brought to this planet from a spiritual source that would bring Father back into prominence and us back into an Eden experience.

Imagine how affirming it was to hear a “guru” say recently that within each of us is the desire to return to paradise, to the Eden of the Genesis story.  Llife lived there was total freedom, lived at a high vibrational level, naked and unashamed, in the constant presence of Father who regularly and continually and intimately dialogued, instructed, and involved Himself completely in the life of His children.

Then, when Adam chose to control things on his own, the picture became one of covering up – completely.  He was hiding from Father – in the bushes.  He was hiding from his wife and from himself – blaming her for his error and failing to take responsibility.  He was hiding from his body – covering it with whatever he could find (a very uncomfortable choice, by the way). 

No doubt his body then looked and felt different than originally.  Father confirmed this when He pointed out that from that point on Adam would beliving at a low vibrational level, ”caught” in Body – living by sweat (and not from “flow” or intuition or Spirit) and in pain (from thorns and in childbirth, the expression of the expansion of Life).

By trying to be God and taking control of himself, Adam dropped into a low vibrational level, away from the higher level depicted by the words “naked and unashamed” and in doing so he brought the rest of humanity with him.

So “naked” means living again at a high vibrational level, completely and totally open, at all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as individuals and socially, politically and economically as a culture.

Adam was sent out of Paradise/Eden, but the desire to return there has persisted in the deep heart of Man, for to this we were born and for this we were created.

Fast forward several thousand years and a Second Adam appeared, Yeshua, direct Son of Father-God.  This one said, “I have come to seek and to save that which was lost.”  He showed us what Life lived with Father, back at the high vibrational level, looked like: Loving, Dialoguing, in total Oneness and Openness with Father and others, cutting across cultural, social and economic barriers. 

His body was naked at birth, at baptism and at death, for all the world to see and at those times he was most vulnerable and most powerful.  He may have been naked while he worked in the carpenter shop as well, and likely was so in the garden at his resurrection, and perhaps for the forty days after that he remained on the planet in a body.

He openly loved and wept and connected to people emotionally.

He openly and simply prayed and spoke to Father for all to hear and learn.

And at his “end” he said, “It is finished.”  He had accomplished the rescue he came to perform.  The barrier was removed, the veil was rent, and the way back to Paradise was opened once again.

Fast forward another two thousand plus years and look around.  We still do not believe that Yeshua actually did what he said he did.  We still live our lives on the low vibrtional level, under the cover of facade, appearances, religion, performances, false perceptions and, yes, even clothes.  We still think life and dis-ease and everything in between is all about Body and sex and pain and sweat – though some do throw a bit of spirituality in on top.

Most of us still don’t live in Spirit, in flow, in openness, in truth, in integrity to ourselves, our feelings, our dreams, that which we know is within us to be and to do.  Most of us still don’t love in constant dialogue and intimacy with Father as His children.

But the tide is changing.

Thought leaders in areas of business, religion, spirituality and even politics are starting to use words like “open,” “authentic self,” “consciousness,” “integrity,” and “awareness.”

I would suggest that those words, taken to their logical extreme, mean “naked” in its fullest sense.

Most writers and thinkers do not want to go that far, but why not?  This desire for utopia within each of us demands that we do.

This post is getting long enough already, and this is a topic which obviously could generate LOTS of discussion, but here are a few reasons why we should be naked:

1. Economically ”full disclosure” (naked business) uncovers all the hidden agendas of using money.
2. Politically “naked politics” would have candidates be truthful, getting the dirt (that we all have) out early, saving lots of time, energy and money on having to cover it up or dig it up, leaving the entire time to spend on dialoguing about real issues.
3. Socially “naked relationships” would put all the deceit and hidden motives out on the table and allow couples to actually get to know each other earlier instead of later, saving lots of heartache and disappointment and broken lives.  One spiritual life coach discusses ”naked dating” where she talks about this very idea.
4. In the religious arena Wayne Jacobsen has written a book called The Naked Church in which he calls us away from the business, glam and “fig leaf” of religion today and back to intimacy with Father.
5. Physically the quantum biologists tell us that first and foremost our bodies were made to “feel”, that the sensation of touch is the major starting point for hormonal release and body control of all our bodily functions such as pulse, respiration, blood sugar, and even emotion.  What better way to feel than to be 100% open to the possibility of sensation?
6. Also physically, Vitamin D has been linked to helping/curing many serious illnesses.  What better way to maximize the amount of vitamin D manufactured than to be completely exposed to sunlight?
7. Emotionally, being physically naked (nudism or naturism) has actually been helpful for men caught in pornography and for women who have been sexually abused.  Perhaps we could explore this further in the future, but for now explore Jeff Bowman’s concepts of Good Nudity.  (It was at his spa that I had the sensation of being like a child once again – see my last post on ‘keep it childlike’).

Sure, there are practical issues like weather and safety when it comes to being physically naked, though perhaps less than we think.  However, probably the only practical issue about being emotionally and spiritually naked is to decide to be that way or not.

(There is also the issue of nudism as recreation.  I have no issue with that and perhaps we could open the discussion about that at a future date, but what I am talking about is a step above that as well.)

In summary, then, my mantra is “keep it simple, keep it childlike, keep it naked”.  And really, “naked” sums up the whole mantra.

You can’t get more simple than open, honest and naked.
Children are innocently naked, not confused by pretense and deceit.

Let’s learn to live at the high vibration. Utopia may even be on the horizon if we do so.

Blessings,

and remember,

“Keep it Simple, Keep it Childlike, Keep it Naked.”

Dr Jon

I was at a spa a couple of years ago and jumped out of the hot tub and ran down the sidewalk.  As I did so, the overwhelming feeling of “wow, this is like being a kid again!”

That feeling is like no other, a sense of freedom, of aliveness, of everything is OK with the world.  It is free of cynicism, fear, doubt, grief, disappointment and scheming.

Yeshua at one point said, ‘Unless you become like a child you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.’

Obviously then there is someting key here about being/feeling/thinking/acting like a child.

Adam, in his book The Path of the Dream Healer, on pg. 131 says:

As children, we see life only in the present moment.  Consequences for our actions can be envisioned only as some obscure possibility in a vague and distant reality.  Children feel a certain way and react intuitively in the here and now.  They have not yet developed an analytical process which interferes with intuition.  By the time they are adults, they will have had years of societal training which limits imagination and dictates acceptable beliefs and behaviors.  This is achieved through parental role modeling, the school system and other cultural, social and religious practices.  These influences mold our reality.  Prior to this conditioning, everything and anything is possible. 

We have all been young children – that is, spontaneous beings – at one point in our lives.  It is important to regain that boundless imagination that we all still have within us.  The ultimate in flexible thinking is allowing ourselves to know this.  The most important aspect of remembering our spontaneous selves is, as with our emotions, to forget what we have learned and remember what we have forgotten.

So the mantra is building:

Keep it simple, Keep it childlike, …

Blessings,

Dr Jon

I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago of attending a day-long seminar with Dr. Dan Clark talking about Nutrition, Health, anti-aging and balancing of hormones.  Great stuff.  Gets the juices flowing!

After, at the end of the day, we went upstairs into the office of my practitioner friend and got the tour of her recent upgrades to her office.  This included a “sample” analysis using the latest version of an electrodermal screening device.  This stuff absolutely thrills me!!

In 1988 I went to Las Vegas to visit a clinic where the early versions of this technology were being used on a regular basis.  Over the years I have kept abreast, from a distance, of the technology.  If I had my way I would be running this technology all the time.  I would have a practice doing nothing but.

But then I realized something.

The sample analysis we ran included emotional components to the physical problem.  The solution was, “Here, take this Bach Flower Remedy.”

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I love Bach Flower Remedies and what they can do.  I particularly love going into the emotional (root cause) of a physical problem.  If you have hung around this blog at all, you know that!

But what I realized is that what I don’t love is using a remedy of any ilk when using Presence, Hands, Energy Work and Listening to Father can work as well or better. 

Going with someone into their deep heart and discovering what is really going on in their mind, heart and soul is what it is all about for me.

When I left medicine and started massage therapy I realized my hands and my presence were more potent than any prescription.

Now I realize that my hands and my presence can also be more potent than alternative technology.

And here is the BIG LESSON:  My hands and my presence is SIMPLE.  Not costly, though it has taken me a lifetime to grow into it.  No maintenance costs except to maintain my own health. 

Simple.

The way Father intended it in the first place.  Living in Spirit. Listening.

Nor is this about me; I am only using my own experiences to make the point:

Life is supposed to be simple.

With this revelation was born the first part of my new mantra:

Keep It Simple.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

My son and I, in our discussion about trusting Father, went on to talk about why we don’t trust.

I believe that it is because we don’t really believe that Father TRULY loves us, or we don’t really understand the depth and intensity with which He loves us.

“Love” to us (to me – I shouldn’t speak for you) is something we use to describe our feelings about hot dogs and cars and dogs and our family, all in about the same way.

Have you ever walked into a room and noted the people there just light up with appreciation and emotion, just for seeing you?  Haved you ever been around someone who looked at you with pure adoration in their eyes?  Probably most of us would be very uncomfortable if that happened (though inside we would be thrilled), but…..

That is exactly the way Father feels about you and me!

How do I know this?

I certainly haven’t been taught this.  All those years I spent in churches, learning the scripture, doing good deeds, didn’t tell me this (not that I begrudge any of that – it was all helpful in many ways). 

Rather, the God I learned about was actually made out to be mean-spirited, angry, judgmental, vindictive, petty and anything but Love.  Darin Hufford, in his book, The Misunderstood God, does a great job of pointing this out.  He also does a great job pointing out how Father really feels.

Hint: it is the eyes lighting up, the adoration, and it is what the scriptures are actually trying to tell us.

Several things happen with a Father God who feels this way.

First, we can begin to truly trust Him and don’t need to feel like we have to be in control.  This is the key to the sin problem that we discussed in the last post.

I watched the last couple of weeks of Dancing with the Stars and realized that to do the kinds of moves that those contestants were doing required that they completely let go and completely trust the partner to hold them, spin them, protect them from being hurt.  But, if they didn’t let go, the dances would not have happened and would not have been the graceful, exciting, romances that they were.

Second, we can believe Him when He tells us that He has removed the old, controlling heart and given us a good heart.  This in turn opens up life, completely.

In this context, the answer to the question “What do you want me to do?” becomes “Whatever you want to do.”

Thus what I do is not something that is dictated to me by this demanding, unyielding Power, but is what is in my deepest desire, is that for which I am most suited, is what is most aligned with my purpose and reason for being here in the first place.

And besides that, what I do becomes something in which Father joins me, delightedly, wholeheartedly, and with help and attention.  We become partners in the great adventure, together making plans, laying out the path, solving problems, fulfilling purpose and desire. 

Like a good father working with his child, He will offer suggestions, give direction, teach, and stand back, all at the appropriate times.  In it all we need but to listen, learn, and be grateful, while lending our presence, initiative and motivation to the project.  At the end Father will proudly applaud for the wonderful results we have accomplished.

He loves it when my son is out mowing, running a business, following an interest and skill that he has.  He loves it when I sit here on my computer and blog, discussing things near and dear to my heart.  He loves it that I want to acquire an old, pristine TR6 so I can enjoy the wind in my hair and the purring of the motor under my foot.  He loves it that I enjoy listening to Morse Code and playing on my ham radios.  He loves that I so enjoy being in the garden, planning, planting, watching things grow.  He loves that in my heart is the desire to have a nude healing center where people can come and shed all the stuff that is putting them at dis-ease, allowing themselves to move into a place where they can find deep and true healing.  He loves what we love.

Incidentally, it explains why “bad” things happen to “good” people.  Rather than blaming God, we need to realize that bad things do happen on this planet.  That was part of the result of our taking control in the first place.  Father doesn’t necessarily step in and orchestrate everything.  Rather, He is alongside, there to help when the bad things occur.  He will likely also whisper subtle warnings and suggestions which we can act upon or ignore, but if acted upon would likely prevent a lot of the bad things.  Even if we ignore them and the bad thing occurs, He still is madly in love with us and is there to support and console and uplift.

This doing what is in our heart to do gives us the permission to become all that He has made us to be.  We are no longer held back, thinking we need to be a certain way for someone else’s sake.  We no longer have to do something because we think we are supposed to do it.

Instead, we can go deeply inside and discover who we are and go be!

Go deep.  Be you.  Father is delightedly ecstatic about you!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

My son and I were out mowing yesterday (he owns a lawn mowing service 30DollarCuts.com) and talking while driving.  His large deck riding mower died last week and he is running behind, trying to mow with smaller machines that take much longer.  Nor does he have the cash flow to buy a newer, large mower and doesn’t want to go further into debt to buy on credit.

We got into a discussion about economics and debt/credit and cash and this led to a discussion about how Father God plays into the mix.

He pointed out that “sin” is very simply the failure to TRUST Father to care, lead and direct us in the way best for us.  I totally agreed and use the word CONTROL to say the same thing (have posted previously about this).

We are born with a heart that from the get-go says, “I’m OK, I can deal with this, thank you,” and put it upon ourselves to take care of ourselves.  We don’t truly or deeply believe that Father a) really cares about us, b) has our best interest at heart, or c) is capable of doing anything about it if He really did care.

This is exactly the message with which the serpent deceived Eve.

This is exactly the response with which Adam responded when given the choice for Eve or for Father.

Adam did not truly believe that Father meant what he said when he stated “it is not good for a man to dwell alone.”  He did not believe that Father, having gone to the extreme of doing surgery to bring Eve to him the first time, would or could also do something extreme to make sure Eve would be able to remain with him.

No, he saw the predicament that he was in, that Eve had been disobedient and had caused a conflict, and rather than talking it over with Father and letting Him direct and provide and discuss solutions, said “I’m good here, I can handle this, I’m in control.”

Failure to trust led to failure to communicate and loss of relationship and that in turn led to living life on a lower plane.  Now there was sweat with labor, pain with childbirth, thorns from the earth.  Now there was covering up, blame, guilt, loss of relationship, living primarily in the physical with a little spirit thrown in (instead of the other way around) and death.

Now there was living by using our head, our knowledge, to figure things out, to be logical.

And guess what.

I and you and we still do it this way all the time!

I am especially bad with living this way when it comes to money.  The car needs a repair, I don’t have the money.  Out comes the plastic.  I can’t believe that Father will somehow provide.  So I am in debt and have become a slave to the creditor.  The rest of my life is on hold until the debt(s) are paid.  I cannot fulfill my greater purpose until what I owe everyone else is covered.  That is death.

We do it in religion.  While we say all the right words, we don’t really trust Father will provide for a life of fellowship together, so we build mausoleums we call “churches” and organize to make sure everything works out alright and set up rules of conduct and behavior to keep everything under control (that word again!).  And it is killing us deep inside.

And it is all so subtle, and so pervasive.  The quickest way to be enslaved in your heart once again, after having found some freedom and after having finally started to truly trust Father once again, is to hang around a religious person once again, as wonderful as they may be.

This control thing, this failure to trust, this thinking we can do it on our own is so deep that it needs a surgery to get it out.

This is exactly what Yeshua did.

His life showed us how to stay in relationship, in listening mode.  He did nothing that wasn’t first shown to him by Father.  His death was the surgery required to fix this deep-seated, inbred problem.  His resurrection was the healing, the bringing forth of the “Eve” that will complete us, and his Spirit sent after is the power that enables us to live the same way.

This Spirit, this life, will be one of Communion with Father, of Trust, of restoration of relationships, of openness/nakedness, without shame, without guilt, living once again from spirit and not just stuck in physical.

I want to live that way, how about you?

And my son’s lawn mowing?  Perhaps if the money for a bigger mower isn’t available it means Father is directing him away from cutting grass and into that which is even nearer and dearer to his deep heart.  Or perhaps there are some life lessons he needs to learn, some actions to take to generate the cash.  Either way, by listening and trusting like he has never done before, he will be drawn into Father’s heart – and his own.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Been listening to the Abundant Mystic Telesummit, enjoying the faculty talk about combining spirit/intuition/heart with business.  Actually, they are making the point that spirit and business are just parts of the same, not even on different sides of the coin.  They also pointed out that business is a great way to grow as a person.

Business, personal growth, spiritual connection/practice are all part of being a growing, maturing person.

So in that context of “wholeness” as I was thinking about the steps to getting healthy and posting them on the Facebook page, it struck me that the steps to getting healthy are the same steps to setting up and running a business.

Decide.  Plan.  Get a coach(es).  Take action.  Invest.  Receive.  Practice.  Be consistent.  See results (ROI).  Give back.

It’s all there.

So getting healthy, business, personal development, spiritual connection/practice are all part of growing and maturing as a person and all intertwined with each other.

I had never put health and business together in a practical way like that before, nor had I ever looked at health and business with such a positive slant.  I have hated the “business” of health since it has done so much to divorce health from care.

But here it is, caring, healing, being spirit-connected business, growing, developing, maturing all working together, becoming.

That’s what I’m talking about. What do YOU think?

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Just finished a book that I have chewed on for a while.

Mentioned it a couple of weeks ago on my radio talk show (The Renegade Heart on Talkshoe.com [#71786] or hear it along with the notes and links on my health blog).

The book is “The Misunderstood God” by Darin Hufford, subtitled “The lies religion tells about God”.

He takes the Love chapter, I Corinthians 13, and goes through each of the attributes/expressions/attitudes contained in real and true Love.  He points out that there is a huge discrepancy between what we teach about Father God and what most of us actually believe about Father God.

As a poor analogy, it’s like we sing the praises of a particular chair, how good and comfortable and sturdy it is, but never actually go and sit in it.  Message: don’t sit in the chair!

Words don’t match actions, but it is the actions that show what we truly believe.

The best part of the book is the last chapter when Mr. Hufford sums it all up and points out that no amount of teaching, learning, preaching, wishing, dreaming, pulpit-banging or knowledge in any form about Father will show someone who Father is or what Love looks like.

But just BEING Father, just BEING Yeshua to someone who needs Love will transcend words and go to true and real and healing Love.

Read the book, ponder it, chew on it, be hard on yourself and ask the tough question – learning about Father or being Father?

Then come back and tell us what you think, what you have learned, how your life has changed, how you have learned to truly, really, practically, openly, unashamedly Love people.

Blessings,

Dr Jon