Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

“The path that can be discerned as a path, is not a reliable path” (Martin Palmer/Lao Tzu). Which begs the questions: “How good is a path that cannot be discerned?” “What does ‘discerned’ mean?” “How do we find our way, looking for a path that cannot be discerned?” “Where does this leave us?” “What doContinue reading “June 08, 2023 – B”

Experience and reflection on experience lead to associations and connections, trains of thought and streams of inquiry, examination and realization, all of which form another level of experience, and the cycle repeats endlessly over time– unless we interrupt it by refusing to ask the questions that beg to be asked, or say the things thatContinue reading “June 08, 2023 – A”

Getting, acquiring, amassing, owning, having, possessing, doing, achieving, winning, etc., add noise, complexity, drama and trauma to our life, disrupts our balance and harmony, increases turmoil, bedlam, chaos and uncertainty, and has us where we are. Everything has to serve balance and harmony, integrity, sincerity, spontaneity, spirit, energy and vitality– in the service of ourContinue reading “June 07, 2023 -A”

How many people do you know who talk without saying anything worth thinking about or remembering? Social chatter consumes our lives. Hair salon talk. Bar talk. Church talk. Family reunion talk. Dinner party talk. The list is long. We spend a lot of time saying nothing. Hearing nothing. Wasting our life on things that don’tContinue reading “June 06, 2023 – A”

Nature, virtues, vitality. These are the three aspects of our life that have to be in sync for our life to be what it is capable of being. Notice that our external circumstances matter not one mote. We are capable of living anywhere, with anything as those who are true to their original nature, theirContinue reading “June 05, 2023 – A”

It occurs to me from time to time that we alone are responsible for our safety and well-being throughout what remains of the time that is ours upon the earth. We make the decisions/choices that produce the future that is ours to live, one decision/choice at a time. We each know–or could know, if weContinue reading “June 04, 2023 – A”

It is a mess everywhere I look, created and compounded by people trying to have their way and force it on other people. We all need a 50-year time out. We could start with one of any length. No one seems to take a time out any longer. Everything begins with and flows from timeContinue reading “June 03, 2023 – B”

I have over 1,000 images up on ClickASnap, and am particularly proud of my “Beach Erosion” Album there, depicting the destruction of nature by nature–which, it seems, is one of the things nature does very well–of the beaches at Botany Bay, on Edisto Island, and Hunting Island, both in South Carolina. Here is the ClickASnapContinue reading “June 03, 2023 – A”

The Joy of life and being is never more than a perspective shift away. It resides with seeing all things as being “transparent to transcendence” (Joseph Campbell), and knowing that we are capable of realizations that transport us to realms of joy and wonder, anyway, nevertheless, even so, no matter what. What something “is” toContinue reading “June 02, 2023”

Summer is a great time for seeking out the essence of vitality, joy, gladness and radiance of life– and obliging ourselves to its experience and service, with liege loyalty and filial devotion throughout the time left for living.

If we take the parables of the prodigal son and the good Samaritan seriously, hell has no place in our life– and purity (represented by the elder brother, and the people walking past) itself is a stumbling block, and Christianity has no foundation or reason for existence. So, there’s that. And spirituality is free toContinue reading “June, 2023”

Wu-We is action without deliberation. Doing that is not agenda directed. Spontaneous, not arranged. Jazz isn’t conducted. “It just happens.” Living that way is living in harmony with the moment, with the circumstances, with the time and place, conditions and context of our living. That said, a lot goes into “just being.” I drove toContinue reading “May 31-A, 2023”