Are you a Mirror Kisser

or a People Hugger? Narcisism appears to be the prevalent cultural norm in higher political life. Overexposure to press and media seems to be the preferred sport of some politicians. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/do-narcissists-know-they-_b_840894.html I shall name no names but you know who you are and probably kiss the proverbial mirror weekly. Washington Dc is full of status seekers. And the 'common man' (if ever man could be but common) is sick of it. The model rock star of all time without trying was Jesus. He didn't run a PR campaign -and in fact a lot of time after performing an astounding miracle he told people to hush up and not tell anyone and hid and prayed in the mountains by himself. Shhhhhh. I don't want to be mobbed. Jesus walked around the country doing unbelievable miracles on the sly. All the time. Could hardly get out of bed without doing something unbelievable. Which is why lots of people didn't believe him. Let's just take one example. He loved Mary and her sister Martha. We aren't sure what kind of love- any seriously matrimonial love that may have existed has in sexist fashion been written out of scripture, but he loved hanging out at their house and eating their food, sharing meals with them. They had a brother, Lazarus. After whom the train station in Paris is named - Saint Lazare. Lazarus it turns out died. His sisters naturally were besides themselves with grief. It appears that he was the only man of the house- we don't know where their father was, but we know this family unit- Mary, Martha and their brother Lazarus and Jesus liked coming over for dinner. Lazarus was dead it turns out for quite some time, he had already been embalmed with burial spices, wrapped in a burial cloth and stuck in a tomb, when Jesus heard about it. It is the one place in scripture where we learn that "Jesus Wept." Was he weeping because his brother in law died or because he knew Mary was grief stricken? Was Lazarus the keeper of the secrets between Mary and Jesus and how did he die? Did he die of some disease or did someone try to poison him. Did Jesus think he might have been killed because he was the keeper of the secrets between Jesus and Mary? Not to get too DAVINCI CODE on you, but people died all the time in ancient Israel under the Romans. Why do we know Jesus wept here? Jesus (you know the story) approaches where the tomb of Lazarus is and he loudly orders him to come out of it. "Lazarus come out"- With his WORDS he raised back to life a dead man. With his WORDS, he proclaimed it and it came to be. With his WORDS he recreated lost life. And after he did this he didn't issue a press release. Because when you save, when you raise the dead, when you recreate life, you won't be able to suppress the word getting out- everyone will know and be amazed. It's the opposite of Narcissism demanding vainly everyone look at you. It's giving an amazing gift of life giving words that then everyone can't stop talking about. Words create Life. Just like in the beginning when God Said let there be...and there was...over and over again.