03 Our work is to respond appropriately to what is called for in each situation as it arises. Each situation calls for something. How we respond to that call makes all the difference. When we are more concerned with what we are asking for from the situation than with what the situation is asking forContinue reading “September 18, 2020”
Category Archives: September 2020
September 17, 2020
04 This isn’t a competition. No one is keeping score. We are not being graded. Our work is not to do or be better than anyone else at anything. Our work is simply being as good as we can be at being who we are. At being ourselves. Our work is developing our relationship withContinue reading “September 17, 2020”
September 16, 2020
02 We don’t know what is going to happen, but. We are here, now, because we have dealt with everything up until here, now, successfully enough to be here, now. That is evidence enough for me to trust myself to deal with whatever happens in a way that carries me on into wherever this isContinue reading “September 16, 2020”
September 15, 2020
03 What symbols are living symbols for you? Which ones bring you to life? Ground you? Open you to the moment, and to the wonder of life, the mysterium tremendum, the awe inspiring mystery, at the heart of being alive? What symbols enable you to face anything? Serve as a guide through dark times? AContinue reading “September 15, 2020”
September 14, 2020
02 People have been missing the point forever. Thinking they/we are the point, and that everything here is for our benefit and enjoyment– to “fill the earth and subdue it,” party hardy and pass a good time. We plop out of the womb figuring the angles, calculating our chances, contriving, conning scheming, planning… always withContinue reading “September 14, 2020”
September 13, 2020
02 We have to be right about what is important and live as though it is in each situation as it arises, no matter what. It is never more difficult than that. It is always that difficult. In order to pull it off, we have to be mindfully aware of what matters most to usContinue reading “September 13, 2020”
September 12, 2020
02 When people ask me if I believe in God, I ask them if they believe in Grace. Most say something on the order of “Of course!” I follow up with, “Why do you believe in Grace?” Most say something on the order of “I have experienced it in my own life!” And I say,Continue reading “September 12, 2020”
September 11, 2020
03 We pretend it is going to last forever. We do not look at the score. We do not look at the clock. We do not wonder “How much LOOONNNGGEEERRR as though we need it to be done, NOW! Our full attention is on the moment, this moment, the time and place of our living.Continue reading “September 11, 2020”
September 10, 2020
04 Chief Seattle and Black Elk did not have a PhD between them. Or a Masters Degree. Or a Bachelors Degree. Or a high school diploma. And they were brilliant men of soul, fit for the company of Gandalf the Grey, Albus Dumbledore, Obi wan Kenobi and Yoda. Dolly Parton would belong to that group.Continue reading “September 10, 2020”
September 9, 2020
04 Our life does not happen accidentally, while we are in pursuit of our dreams. It isn’t what occurs while we are doing something else. Something more fun. Our life is the intentional production of the mutual collaboration between the conscious and unconscious aspects of ourselves. We are two selves: Conscious and Unconscious (We callContinue reading “September 9, 2020”
September 8, 2020
02 Here we are. Caught up in a pandemic, at the mercy of a crazy (As in certifiably insane) President and a GOP majority in the Senate, aiding and abetting his every move, with the world as we know it going to hell as we watch, and nothing more effective to offer than protest marchesContinue reading “September 8, 2020”
September 7, 2020
03 Religion died when it invented theology. Theology is Substitute Religion. It is somebody else’s Religion. Theology is Second-hand Religion. Theology is equivalent to what the people did when Moses came down from the mountain, and his face shone so with the absorbed Glory of God that the people couldn’t look directly at him, andContinue reading “September 7, 2020”
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