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What It Means to Live as a True Human Being

Posted on by TheDon McCoy

Not the institutional version. Not the political version. The human one,  the one that speaks directly to the heart.

1. Living from the inside out

Jesus kept pointing us back to the inner life — the place where love, conscience, and clarity already live. Not to rules. Not to fear. Not to the guilt handed down through generations.

He reminded us that the Kingdom isn’t somewhere “out there.” It’s born into us. It’s the quiet guidance we arrive with.

2. Choosing curiosity instead of condemnation

We inherit two possible paths: the path shaped by shame, negativity, and the emotional debris passed down to us. Or the path that opens when we begin to question what we’ve absorbed.

Jesus always invited people into that second path. The space where gentleness replaces judgment, and where we examine the wound instead of blaming the wounded.

3. Letting love be without walls

“We meet another soul that through gentleness and understanding teaches us what love is without the defined boundaries we previously developed.” __DM

This is the way Jesus loved us, through presence, through a kind of steady warmth that dissolves the defenses we built to survive. His love wasn’t transactional. It wasn’t earned. It simply was.

4. Refusing to echo the world’s fear

Jesus didn’t pretend suffering wasn’t real. He just refused to let it shape his identity.

He met hatred with clarity rather than confrontation. He met confusion with compassion rather than superiority. He met pain with presence rather than avoidance.

He showed us that fear doesn’t have to be the life we sadly hold and endure.

5. Healing by seeing clearly

He never asked anyone to hide their wounds or carry their sorrow. He asked them to see it, and then to recognize that they were more than the pain they carried.

A Simpler Way

To live as Jesus wanted is to live in a way that:

  • softens instead of hardens
  • questions instead of accusing
  • loves instead of hates
  • sees instead of judges
  • frees instead of binds

It’s not about getting it perfect. It’s about the direction your heart keeps turning toward, again and again, even after you’ve been hurt.

IS Evil a human creation?

Posted on by TheDon McCoy

having a conversation with a friend, he asked if i believe in a God. I said not in the terms most have a belief. hen then asked if I believed in good versus evil, as in God versus Satan. I stated that it is my belief that all of this are creations by mankind. If one looks at nature itself, there is on good or evil. Nature exists within its own set of rules and laws, so to say. there is a cod of conduct in the natural world, that we as humans willingly ignore on most occasions.

give as an example the savagery of wildlife, animals killing other animals. this is by rule of need. most often done for the need to eat or for territorial protection. good versus evil does not come into play in nature. the balance of life and death allows for nature to continue in equal measure. humans, on the other hand has the ability to think and reason. this, by any reasonable thought, would preclude that we as a species, would be able to govern ourselves in accordance to the laws of nature and maintain a habitable planet for which all life can survive and thrive.

but this is not the case. for one glaring example humans have completely run over nature and its laws and have systematically destroyed the very planet necessary for its survival. this glaring case is that humans possess an intense and destructive desire that no other species holds, greed. as the Merriam-Webster dictionary states: GREED: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed. The battle between good and evil is indeed a human creation and a God or the antithesis of such is solely within the hearts and minds of the human race.

God help us!