Good Morning Friends and Digital Neighbors!! Hey there Phamily, Triggeratti & Refugees! Happy Sunday Early Birds, Dawn Patrol and Fascinating People! Welcome Back Joyful Bigots, Conversants and Lurkers!

More O Antiphon & Messianic goodness for a Sunday morning. 😊 For you less religious types out there and non-Jesus folks, I'll try my best not to bore you or try to sound too imposing of my own beliefs. Not really my vibe, but these days approaching Christmas tend to much more focused on faith.

Root of Jesse - In short it is a declaration of God's fidelity to His promises. Not a promise to make everything right in the here & now, but rather a promise to remember His promise to King David about a future and faithful descendant to rule with justice & righteousness. Christians say that is Jesus, our Jewish brothers and sister not so much, and many more just treat the whole Jesus story is an interesting meh.

Following up yesterday's thoughts about authority, one has to wonder about the nature of promises from anyone in authority. Most of us experience such promises as laughable. There is campaign season when promises are made, and the rest of the time when they are for the most part ignored or compromised. It is difficult to not to be entirely doubtful and cynical about those in the political world being nothing manipulative liars incapable of even understanding their own hypocrisy. I think many of us find it too burdensome to dwell on the world of politics for long without wrestling with thoughts of frustration or despair. Laughter helps insulate one, but does not change the reality. One ought to be mindful, but not consumed by our concerns of the political world. It is hard to balance attentiveness that affords us some degree of preparedness or getting sucked into the mire of politics being the endorsed secular religion. Everything becomes politicized. And a humble reminder from our Elitist Overlords, they are calling the shots and you are taking them.

But surprises can happen, and to have a system that allows for that without tons of bullets and blood is hopeful. Bloodless change and reform is much more preferable to the standard "new world" being born on a huge amount of carnage. Anyone promising you a new world built on the deaths of countless others (those Not us Peeps as it were) is never worth believing or following. The Not us Peeps in a volatile world of violence is ever changing and insiders can become outsiders and sacrifices without a thought on the march to "paradise".

Well that took a darker turn than I was expecting on a Sunday morning.🤔 On a lighter note, I hope the people in your real life, the elbow people among you, are people of trust and promise. Trustful souls make all the difference. They don't have to be perfect, none are, but there is a ready trust that can be given and shared that make all the difference in the world. It can make up for all the failed moments of promise and trust in the past. Good, real people of promise can create some of the most amazing and beautiful chapters in our life and can provide a much needed shelter from the storm. I hope you have people of promise in your life and you in turn are able to be one to others. Happy Sunday my friends & neighbors.