Burky's Blog

Dear David,

 

I know you are not the first person to "disbelieve" that Jesus may have appear to anyone in visible form today.  I don't blame you, because it is much easier not to believe something that you yourself never had experience.  It is much easier to be skeptical of anything supernatural, especially if we never experience it.  I am sure you also have hard time believing that Don Piper actually visit Heaven and came back to earth as in 90 Minutes In Heaven.  Or you probably wonder if there are actually such things as haunted houses.

 

When I read stories like that, I always think of John 14:21 where it says that Jesus will manifest Himself to us if we keep His commandments.  I don't know much about Glenda Green and her life, although through her websites and her videos on YouTube seems to show her to be doing things that we labeled New Age practices.  In short, I felt that she is almost like a mixture of Buddhist and Christian if there is such a thing.  She believe in Jesus and read the Bible, and she still practices few things that we tend to shy away from because of New Age connotations.  The only reason I find her book very impressive, is because it conflict nothing to what I understand the Bible.  In fact, it agrees everything to what I understand so perfectly.  It is just explained bit differently.

 

The reason I say she practices a bit of New Age practices is because I notice how naturalistic she is.  Because Jesus encourage her to read Song of Solomon (ever think about we don't read that book much?), she became so much a gardener.  I suppose you are a gardener too, but do you work in garden with your love for God's creation like she does?  Do you treat every plant so reverently like she does?  She even points out that Jesus seems to prefer natural prodecures over the supernatural.  That is understandable because it is like someone else point out, 90% of God's dealing with people as recorded in the Bible is not supernatural.  God most often use natural means.

 

The basic reason I love her book is because it make sense of everything recorded in the Bible.  It confirms my beliefs that if God created the world, why can't we notice God's working in every single thing we can think of?  If more and more scientists noticed the fine-tuning of the universe, shouldn't we think that God treat everything alike?  In other words, both spiritual and physical world are so perfectly balanced, that whatever we do out of ignorance or oversight, we destroy that perfect balance.  Hence the need of rules as presented in the Bible, so if we obey them, we will be helping that perfect balance to continue.

 

It was just our immediate family together for Thanksgiving.  I am sorry, but I don't really enjoy being with my brother.  He talks and talks and talks and don't listen as much as he should.  He seem to have an attitude that he knows more than anyone else does, but I did detect there are few things that I knew more than he does, like, for example, computers.  My sister is home from Ohio, and she trigger afresh my need of remembering nonresistance.  Being so picky in what to buy while shopping yesterday, I get so frustrated with her.  I had to remind myself again and again that I need to practice nonresistance.  It does help, but you tend to get influence from the very aura of other person, so it is a recurring thing the whole day.  One thing that make me think is that she does have more white hair than the rest of my siblings, even if she is second youngest.  It makes me think that when you are picky eater or so picky in finding something to suit your fancy, you are actually resisting something.  Once when you learn to accept food with innocence, you probably would be able to like any food set on the table.  The same true in finding a suitable sweater or any other piece of clothing.  I sometimes had to get away from Susan to calm down.

 

She has a book, Why Do I Put So Much Pressure On Myself?  I read the whole book and find it very fascinating.  In fact, I think I am a perfectionist when it comes to writing.  So it does make me feel encourage to go ahead and publish my book.  I will change few things around in my book yet before I would publish it.  Philip Cohen, the co-author of Angels Over Waslala and Weeping May Endure the Night, But Joy Comes In the Morning, (both books are available from Christian Light Publication) is now my friend on Facebook, and he told me a website where he had his books published.  So I think I will try that one.

 

Thanks for your emails.  I was kind of disappointed not to see you at Bible School, but I figured it is my fault for not going on Sunday evening.  I could have went, but my gang feels like my family, so I stayed with them.

 

Sincerely,

Omar Burkholder