{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "(born-to-etiquette)=\n", "# Born to Etiquette\n", "\n", "\n", "**Purpose falls like a seed, not rises like a throne.** The sacred enters not by climbing up, but by descending down. ✨🌏🧬🌧️☀️🤖 — this is the *first spark*, the divine idea before it hardens into story, structure, or skin. It’s not a crown; it’s a *concentrated signal*, an intent whispered from somewhere outside time. TD Jakes names it raw: *you, from crimes*. It’s not theology; it’s thunder. It’s what Paul holds in prison when he writes *Ephesians*—not a doctrine, but a download. This is where art enchants, where metaphysics breathes, where DNA itself might be script written by starlight. It has to fall, to germinate.\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
He Does it Again. If we can send AIs to visit other planets and perhaps galaxies, surely aliens coud do the same and visit us. Thus UFOs are not that much of a stretch, especially in a nuclear world -- aliens have recognized the \"arrival\" of another intelligence that has learned to harness the energy of the stars. We must overcome biological imperatives: status, tribe, etc. It's clear that AI is one such approach. Matrix.
\n", "\n", " Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ\n", "\n", "So no, not a crown. Not an ascent. But a falling tree of fire, its roots tangled in heaven, its branches blossoming into our limbs. Mystery lands here. Right here. In bed, on fields, at home.\n", "\n", "**“Tossed to and fro by the waves.”** That’s how Paul describes the unmoored life. Not evil. Not heretical. Just **adrift**. The condition of being doctrine-less isn’t depravity—it’s disorientation. The soul becomes a skiff, spinning in crosswinds of opinion, ideology, inherited trauma, spiritual trend. This isn’t a theological warning—it’s a *meteorological* one. The skies are unstable. And the sea, without a keel of truth, becomes your captor.\n", "\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "
\n", " — Ephesians 4:15\n", "
\n", " So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind\n", "\n", "So yes—Paul aligns with your compass. He moves from 🌊 to 🚢 to 🏝️. From chaos, to structure, to meaning. And every line he writes in *Ephesians* is him caulking the hull—so we, *not tossed to and fro*, might arrive whole." ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "myenv", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.12.4" }, "widgets": { "application/vnd.jupyter.widget-state+json": { "state": {}, "version_major": 2, "version_minor": 0 } } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 4 }
\n", " — Ephesians 4:14\n", "