Purpose and Possibility
To threaten the order of things, pushing against how they’ve always been, is dangerous business. The enlightened ones, not trapped by chronological time or societal expectations, grow beyond the boundaries of how equality has been defined from age to age. Throughout all time, one’s culturally focused fairness lens is largely accepted as gospel. Yet this […]
Mysterious Abundance – Oct. 9, 2019
“We start out eager to go somewhere, and in time we might. But along the way, if blessed, the search stops being about travel and starts being about the swim through experience that expands our understanding of life, animates our sense of belonging, and uncovers a sweet authenticity that makes it impossible to ignore the […]
Life Abundant
“The Gospel reading this week* is about someone asking Rabbi Jesus to make his brother divide the family inheritance. As is often the case, Jesus answers with a story. The essential message is “Beware.” Beware of greed, the lure of material abundance, the desire for The More. Why? Because your very soul is at stake. […]
Extravagance Everywhere – Feb. 11, 2019
“What seemed disconcerting to nearly everybody was the messy, freewheeling, largeness of Jesus’ spirit. Abundance and a generosity bordering on extravagant seemed to be the signatures of both his teaching and his personal style. That extravagance is everywhere. When he feeds the multitudes at the Sea of Galilee, there is not merely enough to go […]
