A Letter to Luther!

Dear Luther!

It is a joy to be your grandfather. I look forward to sharing your growing up years with you. The world you are now born into is a marvelous and challenging place. Your generation has great opportunities ahead. I pray to be a substantial help in your growth toward your potential. I'm trying to create this letter to you but also to the other new Pilgrims on a spiritual path in this world. Our spiritual path is so much more important than a particular religious path. Before diving into this important and simple but complexified(by us) subject I've just got to draw a comparison between the two pictures above. You have beautiful eyes and they are very busy right now taking in so much new information. No wonder there is such a pondering look on your young lips in that picture. On the other hand the picture on the right shows a very satisfied and restful soul. I just wonder what, if any, thought is going through your young mind in that countenance. I believe that you are reflecting on the mind of God where you have come from to share with us all. On the other hand that look could be tied to a basic male fixation with the breast :o) Maybe both :o)

So this is a letter to an inquiring or questioning mind. Such questions as "Where is my lever, and where do I stand?" "Where is the fulcrum for that lever?" "Am I a Christian?" More about these and others later. First a word, or several, about your name.

I did not know well your namesake, Luther Ray Truelove. I honored him and saw him as a strong silent type of man. I know he loved his kids and grandkids. These are very good things. Another "Luther" to consider is Martin Luther. He was a Spiritual man in the 1500's in the middle of a troubling religious system during the birth pangs of the reformation. I see us at a similar time in our spiritual history. We are again reforming but this time I pray with Gods help you will instead of throwing out the old you will just do it better. Honoring our past and transcending upward to a world of Peace and Love. As Bob Roskind says..."when the love of Power is replaced by the power of Love".

Another strong Luther is from a more recent period of history. Martin Luther King Jr did it better in some ways than even Abraham Lincoln. His social justice mission and non violent approach brought down racial barriers which had still been in place even after the legal abolition of slavery. I'm sure when you go to school you will hear his "I have a dream" speech. Listen well little grasshopper. Saying something is wrong is only truly valuable when it takes firm root in the soul of mankind. I see your generation as being one to carry forward this period of transcendence to its fruition.

I had questions about your name and at the outset would have preferred the shorter version of "Luke". I liked "Cool Hand Luke" and "Luke Skywalker" to "Lex Luther" :o) In reality Luther is a fine namesake as I've just related. Luke in the Christian bible is also a fine name. As I understand it the Luke of the Bible was a doctor and we sure could use a healer in this world of ours. And of course your middle name means "the Strong right arm of God"; Michael the Archangel. So you've got a whole lot going for you in your name. A strong arm (I choose "strong Loving arm") of God, a doctor, a reformer, and a social justice and peace activist. You Go Boy!!

So I hope to share most of these blog entries with you as you are older. If that doesn't happen for whatever reason then I pray you will glean some semblance of Truth, Love, Joy and Peace from their pages. In a nutshell here is what I have come to believe in the past 67 years.

The path which I've walked upon the past few years is well stated in this blog and especially the resource list posted a few entries ago. But it does take a while to get through and the the big question is what does it all mean in my heart and soul. In a word the answer is "Love"! Such a simple word has been so misused and misapplied in our history. But that fact doesn't detract from it's validity. Other tenets of my belief foundation would be briefly as follows. There is an afterlife or dimension. There is God and All is in God. God is mysterious and wondrous. God is more of a verb than a noun. Jesus is my Brother and my God in Christ (in Christo as Paul puts it). Christ is not Jesus' last name but His (and our) Beingness.

How does this translate to me and my life? If you Love All Creation (including your enemies) You are of God. We are just here to learn to Love Him (and all creation). In doing this we must stand up for the rights of All (together), But do No Harm. ??? This last statement is a big question and is one our world needs to answer real soon to avoid global meltdown. We (You) can do that if we can transcend above our selfish individual and societal egos. Good Luck and God Speed with that. I don't know about luck But God is able to do this. I Love You! Grampa Bob