Category Archives: June, 2022

01 Our view of God is not God. Our idea of God is not God. God is transcendent reality beyond concepts or ideas, words or images. God is beyond theology and doctrine, creeds and dogma. Beyond explanation, description, elucidation, illustration. “Darkness within darkness– the gateway to mystery.” The Tao Te Ching’s description of the TaoContinue reading “June 30, 2022”

01 Life is hard enough with plenty of cooperation. How long has that been? Since we had plenty of cooperation? The Familiarity of stabilizing routines help nudge us along from one recovery to the next, and they are getting more frequent as time goes by. The Supreme Court rocking people’s world is far removed fromContinue reading “June 29, 2022”

01 More for them is not less for you, for me, for us. We have the idea that they are out to get us, when we are the ones who have gotten them, and we are sure they will do the same to us as we have done to them if we let our guardContinue reading “June 27, 2022”

01 Taking the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the bit in Matthew 25 about “In as much as you have done it, or not done it, to one of the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done it, or not done it, unto me,” as ourContinue reading “June 24, 2022”

01 “What I do is me,” said Gerard Manley Hopkins, “for that I came.” There you are. Don’t let anyone talk you out of being who you are, doing what you do. The world is saved by ordinary people daring to be who they are, daring to do what they do. The Old Taoists realizedContinue reading “June 23, 2022”

01 Carl Jung said, “We are who we have always been, and who we will be.” Are you aware of the thread running through your life? The You who “was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be”? You, and I, and all the others, are eternal, everlastng. No one has ever been whoContinue reading “June 21, 2022”

01 We are at our best when we are free to see what needs to be done and do it, using the gifts/daemon of our original nature and our innate virtues, in the service of the good of the moment in each situation as it arises. Anything that interferes with our seeing/doing keeps us fromContinue reading “June 20, 2022”

01 We are the guardians of the Outlands, of the Boundary lands, of the Borders. We keep an eye out for threats to our security and stability– for noise and complexity. Nothing destroys our balance and harmony like noise and complexity. That is why AAAUUUUMMMM… is such a necessary restorative device. Calling us back toContinue reading “June 19, 2022”

01 What keeps us going is the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it. And if we can’t say that, it is because we have lost the WOW!!! And have to get the WOW!!! back. We lose the WOW!!! mostly because of disappointed expectations. There ought to be a rule: NoContinue reading “June 16, 2022”

01 There are no shortcuts to where we are going. It’s one day at a time all the way. Of course, we can speed things up by seeing what we look at, hearing what we listen to, being aware of what we are dismissing, discounting, ignoring, knowing what we know, knowing what’s what, knowing whatContinue reading “June 15, 2022”

01 There are people who do their jobs the way they need to be done. There are people who live their lives the way they need to be lived. Start looking for them. There are more of them than you might think. And don’t forget to add yourself to your running tally of how manyContinue reading “June 14, 2022”

01 The Mystery at the heart of life and being Fis Life. Life is The Mystery. The source of life is life itself. Life is eternal, always, never ending, forever evolving, generating new life forms for any environment, accommodating itself to space and time, making merry, dancing, dancing, dancing, through all times and places. DeathContinue reading “June 11, 2022”