Our Soulwork – Oct. 23, 2020
“The soul is generous: it takes in the needs of the world. The soul is wise: it suffers without shutting down. The soul is hopeful: it engages the world in ways that keep opening our hearts. The soul is creative: it finds a path between realities that might defeat us and fantasies that are mere […]
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 […]
Blessed Are You
Today’s gospel reading* takes me back to a former workplace and a particular co-worker and his response to the everyday greeting, “How are you?” “I am blessed,” he would say; not the typical “Fine” or “OK” or “It’s been rough” or this or that, but always, simply, “I am blessed.” Many years have passed since […]
Only Wonder – Nov. 16, 2018
“Sink your generosity deep into our lives that your muchness may expose our false lack that endlessly receiving we may endlessly give so that the world may be made Easter new, without greedy lack, but only wonder… Finish your creation, in wonder, love and praise. Amen.” -Walter Brueggemann
