In order to live a moral life, a good life, an ubuntu life, we must commit to a life of love that means seeing all the things. See your neighbor suffering and do something about it.…
Jacqui Lewis
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It begs the question
What does it mean to be great?
What does greatness look like?
Does it mean to be bigger?
Stronger
Richer
Smarter
Comelier
Or more talented?
Is it about the ability to win,
To dominate,
To control,
To impose your will on others.
To accumulate power and wealth
When people cry, “Make America Great Again!”
What do they mean?
It seems clear that for many greatness looks like
looks like those who have
the wealth, the fame
even the notoriety
It looks like have the adoration of the crowds
It looks like being above the law
(or being able to manipulate it for your own purposes)
It looks like
Donald J Trump
Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos
It looks like the superstar
The beautiful ones
The rich ones
Even the “Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology says
Greatness is about being bigger, larger, and more powerful
(which may explain a lot about the current “evangelicals”)
But in the realm of the Sacred
Greatness looks like Jesus
Jesus
Pink and squalling in a manger
Teaching and healing
Kneeling in the dust, washing feet
Jesus
On a cross
It looks like the worst nightmare of MAGA America
And even most of the rest of us
Paul had it right when he wrong
“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
who, though he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped, but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave, assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human, he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death — even death on a cross”
Greatness looks like love
Being there for others
Greatness “is patient; and kind;
It is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable;
it keeps no record of wrongs;
it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
Greatness having a love that never fails
It looks like Jesus
Dancing Faith 