Category Archives: June 2021

01 Everything works together to produce who we are– to bring us forth, draw us out, as “one thus come,” “just so,” precisely right and fitting to the occasion, every occasion, along The Way. We only have to believe it is so, and live in compliance, cooperation, alignment with it, allegiance, loyalty, devotion and dedicationContinue reading “June 30, 2021”

01 Knowing when to quit is knowing when its done. And that is as important as knowing what to do, and when, and where, and how to do it. Put those five elements together, and we have a life well-lived, regardless of what we achieve, accomplish, or succeed in getting done. Adam and Eve broughtContinue reading “June 29, 2021”

01 Courage is a function of what needs to be done. Our life calls us forth. We are here to do the bidding of time and circumstance, time and place, here and now. Too many of us spend our time trying to set things up, get things in place, to have it made. We thinkContinue reading “June 28, 2021”

01 When we care about everything, when it all is important, we are lost– as lost as we would be if we did not care about anything, if we thought nothing mattered. The trick is to know what is important, what matters most– to care about the things that are primary, that are essential. AndContinue reading “June 27, 2021”

01 What’s worth our time? We live to find out. By now (This is my 77th June), I have ruled out a lot of things. Articulating the truth of the moment remains high on the list. Saying what’s what, and looking for what needs to be done about it, is my favorite thing. It’s beenContinue reading “June 26, 2021”

01 Companions of The Way understand that the way back to Eden winds through the heart of Gethsemane and across the face of Golgotha, and requires them to die to their idea of how their life should be in order to be born into the realization of how their life is to be. Companions ofContinue reading “June 25, 2021”

01 Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Lament” is a poem for all times throughout time. “Life must go on though good men die. Anne, eat your breakfast. Dan, take your medicine. Life must go on. I forget just why.” Poets are truth-bearers, and the burden is heavy– too heavy, and good poets die under the weightContinue reading “June 24, 2021”

01 We can organize our life mathematically, logically, reasonably, rationally, inorganically, imposing order from the top down and from the outside in. And, we can organize our life inorganically, irrationally, unreasonably, naturally, following the order from the bottom up and from the inside out. We can lay out our life by the book. Setting goalsContinue reading “June 22, 2021”

01 When have you heard anything from the church–any church– that you haven’t heard before? The old Taoists knew 4,000 years ago that playing favorites and holding grudges is no way to be godly. Why would anyone think it would be heavenly to hang out with a god like that? Why does God have toContinue reading “June 21, 2021”

01 It is all useless, pointless, hopeless, meaningless, futile, stupid and absurd– and coming to a very bad end: We all are going to die! And. How we live in the meantime makes all the difference. Our place is to shoulder the burden of the truth of our situation and bear it in the strengthContinue reading “June 20, 2021”

01 “Judge not” doesn’t mean “Don’t know what’s what.” It means “Don’t find fault.” “Don’t demean, condemn, belittle, dismiss, reject, abhor…” Distinguishing, recognizing, discerning… are necessary aspects of finding our way. If one house is as good as another who knows where they would sleep at night, or take shelter, or shut out the world?Continue reading “June 19, 2021”

01 The Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump crowd cannot tolerate anyone who doesn’t see/think the way they do. They have only contempt, ridicule and disdain for those not like them. And that is the one characteristic preventing the realization and implementation of mutually beneficial ways of living together. They cannot enjoy life thinking thatContinue reading “June 18, 2021”