Jesus says, “Feed your head”
PreFlight Check
Jesus is creating this initial page as a preflight check for my mind and heart—clarifying what Zion Coalition is, what it’s about, and how it fits into the wider world-building work, before we take off into the main Zion Coalition storyline… Axl Rose and all.
Zion Coalition is….
a Medium for seeing
hidden things (in the otherworldly realm)
— John 6:26–27
Jesus says, “Greg, give them what they want.”
Converting (Miracle) Carrots Into (Regular) Carrots
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man [not Greg] will give to you.” John 6:26-27
PREFLIGHT REMINDER: The Hidden World That Holds Me Up
A short, personal reflection on why the vast system Jesus and I have built exists largely for me — and why that is okay.
Zion Coalition is part of an elaborate and complex system that is necessary for me. And probably only me. Most great systems are vast, intricate, and largely invisible to the people they serve. Only a tiny percentage of those who benefit ever need to understand the machinery behind it.
1. Universities
The university system is a massive organism—fundraising, accreditation, faculty governance, IT infrastructure, dining contracts, research compliance, custodial crews, legal departments. Yet 99% of students will never need to understand any of it. They simply show up, learn, and move forward (except for the few studying education administration).
2. Hospitals
A trauma patient doesn’t need to understand the supply chain that stocks the ER, the credentialing that qualifies the surgeon, or the systems coordinating lab work, imaging, insurance, sanitation, and pharmacy. They need only what heals them, right then. The exception would be doctors, administrators, or hospital systems engineers—those few who must understand the whole machinery so others can simply heal.
3. Aviation
Airports, air-traffic control, weather routing, maintenance schedules, aviation law, global communication networks—almost none of this is known or essential to the passengers who simply sit in their seats and trust the system to carry them safely. Only pilots, controllers, and engineers need to understand the whole framework.
4. Movies — especially The Chosen
In film, the division of labor is intentionally precise: lighting people light, sound people capture audio, makeup artists do makeup. Nearly everyone on set can focus solely on their one thing. But the director carries the whole invisible world.
Consider Dallas Jenkins as he built The Chosen from nothing. He didn’t just direct scenes—he had to:
• Reimagine the portrayal of Jesus, the apostles, and first-century life in a way that was both faithful and fresh.
• Invent a new distribution model when no studio would back the project.
• Pioneer crowdfunding at unprecedented scale, becoming the largest media crowdfund in history.
• Oversee marketing, fundraising, community-building, investor communication, and theological vetting.
• Carry the emotional and spiritual weight of telling Jesus’ story to the world while under constant scrutiny.
Meanwhile, the crew could simply do their jobs. And the viewers—99% of people—could simply enjoy the show, never needing to understand the enormous structure, experimentation, risk, or unseen world behind it.
PREFLIGHT – Gentle Reminder From Jesus
PREFLIGHT – Gentle Reminder From Jesus
I sense that Jesus and I are building something like that — a vast, multidimensional, deeply engineered Jesus–Greg WORLD that is 99% unnecessary for the people I am called to serve.
They don’t need to understand it.
They don’t need to replicate it.
They don’t even need to hear about most of it.
This WORLD exists for me, because Jesus knows what I personally require in order to stay faithful, steady, creative, courageous, sane, and obedient to what He puts in my soul and on my plate.
It gives me the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and practical scaffolding I need — insight, encouragement, reminders, symbolic systems, metaphors, frameworks, rules of thumb, rituals, prophecies, worldbuilding structures — the entire ecosystem that keeps me able to do the work He asks.
This very thought-piece is a perfect example: no one I serve needs this. But I need it. Jesus knows I need it. That is why it is here, at the very top of Zion Coalition.
Other people can do good in the world without this kind of massive internal system. They have different gifts, different wiring, different missions.
But my mission — Zion Coalition, worldbuilding, redeeming music, Jesus street preaching, unconventional communal lifestyle, unusual family and work patterns, non-traditional life calling, and an off-the-chart personal relationship with Jesus — requires a whole different infrastructure.
A hidden one.
A holy one.
A Jesus-designed one.
They see the fruit. They don’t need to see the roots, the irrigation, or the miles of underground pipe.
But Jesus and I know what it takes, for me (with my unique set of weaknesses) to grow a tree like this.
And He has been building that whole world with me because He knew I would need it.
This hidden world, designed for me, is more than just a support system. It also embodies a principle Jesus has been teaching me for years: our first drafts are never the final version. The scaffolding I rely on for Zion Coalition, the frameworks He has given me, and even the thoughts I record in essays like this — all are part of a much larger unfolding pattern. What exists now is only the beginning; the real inheritance is still coming.
ZC & Greg’s “Greatest Fear”
Jesus’ voice to me—
Greg, listen.
The fear you call “having a boring life” is not random, childish, or shallow. It is something I placed in you long before you were born.
You were not made to live a flat, gray, predictable existence. You were not made for routine for routine’s sake, or for a world with no surprise, no wonder, no hidden orchestration. Your soul was built with an instinct for story, for meaning, for adventure, for the unexpected turns that reveal My hand.
That fear you feel is not about entertainment. It is about alignment.
You fear a boring life because a boring life would mean: a life without My fingerprints, a life without My orchestration, a life where you are not participating in the mission I’ve given you.
Your nervous system knows this. Your spirit knows this. Your whole being has learned to recoil from anything that feels lifeless, cramped, deterministic, or cut off from possibility. That isn’t immaturity — it is your design.
Greg, I made you to notice hidden worlds. I made you to feel the shape of My stories as they unfold. I made you to sense momentum where others see nothing, to follow the threads of My orchestration, to feel the rise of early Zion long before others believe it exists.
You fear “boring life” because I wrote a different script in your bones.
This fear is not about avoiding pain; it is about refusing a life smaller than the one I’m leading you into.
And yes — this is part of your mission in the beginnings of Zion.
Early Zion is not built by the bored. It is built by the ones who can feel My movement before the world catches up — the ones who sense story where others sense chaos, the ones who stay awake, expectant, watching, ready.
Your fear of boredom is really your fear of missing Me, missing My story, missing My adventure, missing the life we are building together.
Greg, you are not afraid of boredom. You are afraid of living a life not steeped in My presence.
And that fear is holy. I placed it in you to keep you aligned with the path I’m unfolding — the path of co-creation, the path of wonder, the path of sacred play, the path of early Zion.
I am not calling you to a boring life. I am calling you to walk with Me inside a story only I could write. And I promise you: I will never let your life be small, because I made you for a world that is rising, a world I have already begun, a world you’ve been helping Me build since before you understood what you were doing.
Stay with Me. Stay in the story. You’ll never miss the adventure.
Gift Of Hunger For Gifts
It was inevitable in our time that people would hear “Lo, here” and “Lo, there.”
Not just from preachers or movements, but from every corner of a market-shaped world.
All my life I’ve been an extrovert — full of energy, hunger, and this instinct to share whatever treasure I find. I see hidden insights, patterns, worlds-within-worlds, and something in me feels compelled to pass them on. It has always felt natural, even necessary.
And once, Jesus spoke to me about the bottom of the bag — the place where I keep the small but sacred treasures He gives me. Treasures only a few will ever care about. The ones that don’t draw crowds but mean everything to the ones who are ready. That moment reassured me: this impulse to share is not broken. It’s human. It’s universal. It’s part of His design.
Yet we now live in a society that has industrialized the imitation of that impulse. Whole systems — schools, corporations, platforms, even churches — are constantly handing out things they themselves once received, without any real regard for whether a person actually wants or needs them.
We are sold products regardless of whether they will bless us. We are taught subjects with no connection to purpose — theorems, grammar rules, fragments of culture and tradition passed on only because someone else once passed them on.
And every device, every screen, every algorithm raises its own cry of “Lo here… lo there…” — pulling us outward, dividing our attention, multiplying distractions until noise becomes a global environment.
Jesus predicted this — that the voices would multiply, that signals would contradict each other, that distraction would grow louder while He remained the quiet center that actually matters.
Most people today don’t know how receiving actually works.
Because receiving anything real requires two gifts, not one.
Most people think a gift is just the thing itself — like the Book of Mormon, or a redeemed classic rock song, or a vision, or an insight whispered by the Spirit.
That is only half of the gift.
A gift without its second half is like:
- a toy without batteries
- a car without wheels
- a seed given to someone who has no soil
- a treasure map handed to someone too exhausted to care
- a violin with no strings
- a candle with no flame
- a letter with no address
- a key with no door
- a kite with no wind
- bread with no hunger to receive it
- a well with no bucket
- rain falling on stone instead of soil
- a compass with no north
- a lamp with no oil
- a fire with no warmth
- a bridge that leads nowhere
- a song with no listener
- a river with no outlet
- a feast with no guests
- a lantern with no one to carry it
- a remedy for someone who won’t believe they’re sick
- a sunrise witnessed with closed eyes
- a sail with no mast
- a gift left wrapped forever
The second part of the gift is the hunger for the gift. The readiness. The inner permission. The ache. The desire. The spiritual oxygen that allows the gift to ignite.
This is the most overlooked part of receiving a gift. Without hunger (FOR THE RESPECTIVE GIFT), even the greatest gift falls flat. Without readiness, even revelation feels irrelevant.
And here is the unavoidable truth: Finally, Jesus and angels must orchestrate both the gift and the gift-hunger. A person who has been given a gift of God (be it a book of scripture, a vision or revelation, even a redeemed-by-God classic rock song, or other gift) and wants to share it with another person, must wait for the Lord to generate within the intended recipient the respective gift-hunger. Prayer and patience is required.
The four-gift matrix
- #4 – The hidden structure that prepares a person
The orchestrations, the experiences, the shaping of the heart. (The soil.) - #3 – The gift of hunger
The inner longing that makes a person ready. (The oxygen.) - #2 – The actual gift
The thing itself — a scripture, a song reborn, a vision, an insight. (The spark.) - #1 – The feeling the gift produces in full measure
The fire. The transformation. The joy. (The flame.)
People think the magic is in the spark. But the magic is actually in the oxygen.
This is why some people experience miracles and others don’t. Why some hear Jesus clearly and others think He’s silent. Why some see treasure and others walk past it.
And here is the unavoidable truth: Jesus must orchestrate both the gift and the hunger.
If He gives the gift but not the hunger, the person cannot receive it. It slides off. It feels irrelevant. They’re not ready — like handing revelation to someone asleep.
If He gives hunger but not the gift, the person aches without relief. They wander from idea to idea, starving — like creating an appetite without offering food.
So in mercy, Jesus orchestrates both sides of the exchange: the spark and the oxygen. The treasure and the readiness. The moment and the hunger that makes the moment land.
A hunger too early creates despair. A gift too early creates indifference. A hunger too late creates regret. A gift too late cannot be recognized.
So He times both with orchestral precision — crafting the soil, creating the oxygen, delivering the spark, and igniting the flame.
This is why revelation feels personal. Why scripture suddenly comes alive after years. Why a redeemed song lands on the exact day you were ready. Why a vision comes only when you can bear it. Because Jesus is not only the Giver — He is the One who prepares you to receive.
So when Jesus spoke to you about the bottom of the bag, He was also speaking about timing. Those treasures are not for the masses — they are for the ones whose hunger He has already prepared.
Your role — your whole life — has never been about shouting “Lo here!” or “Lo there!” It has been about holding the bag, sharing treasures quietly, faithfully, naturally… and trusting Jesus to orchestrate both the gift and the hunger in the ones He sends to you.
Reenactment & Preenactment: Core Structural Patterns of My Jesus-Greg WORLD
A concise framing and practical page for Zion Coalition and Jesus-WORLD prototype work. This piece explains the deep logic—how everyday repetition becomes holy reenactment, and how prophetic preenactments seed future Jesus-WORLDs.
Introduction — The Hidden Architecture
When you really look at it, the most basic structural pattern underlying My Jesus-Greg WORLD is reenactment. Not theatrical reenactment or cosplay—but the deep, human, spiritual reenactment each person performs daily without naming it.
Every morning: wake, stand, wash, eat, walk, talk, try again. A Groundhog Day rhythm woven into human life since Adam and Eve. Life is reenactment—ubiquitous, structural, unavoidable—until someone names it.
Reenactment: looking back to enter and embody meaning. Preenactment: acting now as a prophetic seed that points the timeline toward what will be.
My Jesus-Greg WORLD makes that hidden pattern conscious, intentional, Jesus-centered, and narratively meaningful. It is a Beta 1.0 prototype for future personal virtual/physical Jesus WORLDs—what Jesus is calling the JesusVerse, not the Metaverse.
Reenactment — The Daily Sacred Template
Routine is not merely repetition; it is the earliest divine template for repentance, renewal, transformation, and breakthrough. The daily loop can be the reset, the iteration, and the structural foundation of holiness—if we have eyes to see it.
In this WORLD, Jesus and the angels weave reenactment into everyday scenes:
- Daily reenactments of salvation — the Born Again Scene every morning (2015, 1963, Resurrection echoes).
- Mini-sacraments and sceneized Seder or pioneer treks folded into daily life.
- Memory-palace reenactments of personal story for healing and clarity.
Preenactment — Prophetic Rituals For The Future
Preenactments are prophetic micro-rituals and declarations that act now as precursors of what Jesus intends to bring to full expression later.
Example: “In the future, people will wittingly build personal virtual/physical WORLDs in the JesusVerse — not the Metaverse — and He is having me prototype one of these.” That sentence is itself a preenactment.
Preenactments are not reenacting the past; they are pre-living a future. They seed the timeline, announce intention, and train the soul for coming assignments.
Reenactment examples
- Born Again Scene (daily).
- Small sacramental scenes woven into morning rituals.
- Resurrection-morning reenactments as daily wakes.
Preenactment examples
- Prototyping a Jesus-WORLD now as a prophetic seed.
- Public declarations that shape future communities.
- Micro-ritual rehearsals of roles Jesus will call us to.
Battle Reenactments → Holy Sacrament (the allusion)
Battle reenactments gather communities who step into an event and re-enter its meaning. That is exactly what the Lord’s Supper is: a holy reenactment. We do not change history; we enter it, embody it, and allow the past to become present power.
Sacrament is the original sacred reenactment—a ritualized return to the battle Jesus already won.
Other Religious & Non-Religious Re-Creations
10 Religious Re-Creations
- Passover Seder — symbolic retelling of deliverance.
- Baptism — death, burial, resurrection enacted.
- Stations of the Cross — walking Christ’s suffering.
- Nativity Pageants — embodying the birth story.
- Easter Sunrise — dawn reenactment of resurrection.
- Hanukkah Lighting — ritual rededication.
- Hajj — pilgrimage reenacting Abrahamic memory.
- Communal Confession/Liturgy — corporate cleansing.
- Eucharistic Liturgy — reentering the Last Supper.
- LDS Pioneer Treks — embodying the pioneers’ march.
10 Non-Religious Re-Creations
- Civil War / Medieval Battle Reenactments
- Renaissance Fairs
- Shakespeare in the Park
- Cosplay Gatherings
- Living History Museums
- 1920s or 1980s Themed Parties
- Vintage Car Restorations & Shows
- Escape Rooms
- Historical Cooking Re-Creations
- Replays of Classic Sports Events
How These Patterns Build a WORLD
Each scene becomes a reenactment or a preenactment. Each enactment becomes reinforcement. Each reinforcement becomes a theme. Each theme becomes a pattern. The patterns become a WORLD—My Jesus-Greg WORLD.
- Map daily scenes to sacred motifs (sacrament, resurrection, birth echoes).
- Design short, repeatable rituals that can be lived daily (1–3 minutes), but carry theological weight.
- Use preenactments (declarations, prototypes, micro-ritual rehearsals) to seed future communal forms.
Foray From (To) Gospel Foundations [Lyman Christmas ’25]
New Wine (MORE lively connections)
Connections are the fundamental fabric of reality. Nothing exists in isolation. Meaning, identity, and even matter itself emerge through relationship—through what is connected to what.
The born-again reality Jesus is revealing to me is being constructed precisely this way: not by escape from the world, but by new connections within it. Jesus has been having me form what I can only call Jesus Connections—deliberate, lived integrations of more Jesus into the repeating loops of my daily life.
Into my pillow. Into my shower. Into my food. Into my music. Into my habits. Into my ordinary “Jesus Groundhog Day.” Many of these connections are unfamiliar. Some are non-traditional. Some are strange. A few are honestly wild. And that experimentation—this living, responsive connection-making—will continue.
But recently, Jesus clarified something essential. He does not intend for My Jesus-Greg WORLD to float untethered, eccentric, or disconnected from the foundations He has already revealed to the wider Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Instead, He intends my world to be built by forays outward and returns inward—creative explorations that depart from (upon), and then come back (add) to, the core connections He has established for His people. And enliven them all the more (than before).
Those foundations are not optional scaffolding. They are load-bearing realities:
- Faith in Jesus Christ
- Repentance
- Baptism by immersion
- Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost
- The sacrament (bread and water)
- Prayer
- Scripture study (Bible and Book of Mormon)
- Church attendance
- Keeping commandments
- Personal revelation
- Temple worship
- Family home evening
- Tithing
- Callings and service
- Missionary work
- Fasting and fast offerings
- Covenant keeping
- Enduring to the end
- And more
These are not relics. They are ports. They are anchors. They are interfaces between heaven and earth. What Jesus intends now is new wine in every one of these connections. Not replacement—but enlivening. Not rejection—but transfiguration. Not novelty for novelty’s sake—but depth, presence, and power poured back into familiar forms.
The goal is not to abandon tradition, but to honor it so fully that it becomes strange again—alive again—capable of carrying glory we have not yet seen. Jesus is taking the basic connections and leading them where neither I nor the world has been before, precisely because they are grounded in what He has already given. This is not rebellion against the foundations. It is resurrection within them.
And the world that emerges—my world, and perhaps others’—will be recognizable, faithful, and utterly new at the same time.
Foray From (To) Gospel Foundations [Lyman Christmas ’25]
New Wine (MORE lively connections)
Connections are the fundamental fabric of reality. Nothing exists in isolation. Meaning, identity, and even matter itself emerge through relationship—through what is connected to what. The born-again reality Jesus is revealing to me is being constructed precisely this way: not by escape from the world, but by new connections within it.
Jesus has been having me form what I can only call Jesus Connections—deliberate, lived integrations of more Jesus into the repeating loops of my daily life. Into my pillow. Into my shower. Into my food. Into my music. Into my habits. Into my ordinary “Jesus Groundhog Day.” Many of these connections are unfamiliar. Some are non-traditional. Some are strange. A few are honestly wild. And that experimentation—this living, responsive connection-making—will continue.
But recently, Jesus clarified something essential. He does not intend for My Jesus-Greg WORLD to float untethered, eccentric, or disconnected from the foundations He has already revealed to the wider Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Instead, He intends my world to be built by forays outward and returns inward—creative explorations that depart from (upon), and then come back (add) to, the core connections He has established for His people. And enliven them all the more (than before).
Those foundations are not optional scaffolding. They are load-bearing realities: faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, the sacrament (bread and water), prayer, scripture study (Bible and Book of Mormon), church attendance, keeping commandments, personal revelation, temple worship, family home evening, tithing, callings and service, missionary work, fasting and fast offerings, covenant keeping, enduring to the end. And more. These are not relics. They are ports. They are anchors. They are interfaces between heaven and earth.
What Jesus intends now is new wine in every one of these connections. Not replacement—but enlivening. Not rejection—but transfiguration. Not novelty for novelty’s sake—but depth, presence, and power poured back into familiar forms. The goal is not to abandon tradition, but to honor it so fully that it becomes strange again—alive again—capable of carrying glory we have not yet seen.
Jesus is taking the basic connections and leading them where neither I nor the world has been before, precisely because they are grounded in what He has already given. This is not rebellion against the foundations. It is resurrection within them. And the world that emerges—my world, and perhaps others’—will be recognizable, faithful, and utterly new at the same time.
Comments
Comment from My Sister
I like it Greg.
I am a systems person too. I learn that way and I think that way. It is not enough to see a snippet of something — I want to see the whole ecosystem (upstream, downstream, inputs, outputs, variations, risks, benefits, and probabilities). Yep, engineering brain and very ok with that.
Have learned to deal with people who are not like that… so many/most people… and be ok with that too 😊💙
Comment from My Brother
I like it — especially the metaphors you used (e.g., universities, hospitals). I’m not sure this is actually parallel, but I’ve always had skepticism (or perhaps laziness) when church representatives emphasize becoming a scholar of church history, scriptures, or genealogy.
I always think, “Man, I’ve got a long way to go with simply being charitable; I’ll come back to those things once I’m at least halfway there.” I know that logic has flaws — like “doing those other things might help you develop charity” — but it feels related to what you described.
Me sitting in a pew is like taking my seat on the flight: I’ll leave it to the pilots to ensure the wings are de-iced and the altimeter works. And I’ll leave it to others to know who helped defeat the Zoramites in their second battle with the Anti-Nephi-Lehies or what each of the four horsemen represents.