Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

If only we could see ourselves “as ithers see us”! Even this sunflower, completely exposed for all to see cannot get at the heart of the inner flower. All we see of ourselves is what we exhibit to others to see, with no way of dropping into our inner space in order to get toContinue reading “August 27, 2023 – A”

We live best in the service of beauty and harmony, rhythm and flow, balance and congruity, resonance and synchrony– in tune with ourselves and our surroundings. Where are we doing that? Where in our life do we find evidence of our doing that? How are we attempting to align ourselves with the ebb and flowContinue reading “August 26, 2023 – A”

Feeling what we are feeling, seeing what we are seeing, knowing what we are knowing, is all a matter of practicing being present with what is present with us and with how we are responding to it. This initiates the process of transforming the nature of our being in the world, and changing our wayContinue reading “August 25, 2023 – A”

We are in the grip of forces quite beyond us–the economy, the weather, earthquakes, war… and have to negotiate our way through the possibilities and choices available to us on a daily basis in the service of balance and harmony, peace and sanity– and can do that as long as we live in a normalContinue reading “August 24, 2023 – A”

What engages you beyond sex/drugs/alcohol/eating/shopping/money? Engagement is the key to LIFE. Without engagement there are only boredom and lethargy. And entertaining pastimes until death takes us mercifully away. Being engaged in seeking engagement counts for engagement. What catches your eye? Start there. Where do you enjoy spending time? What do you love to do forContinue reading “August 23, 2023 – A”

The path to “having life and having it abundantly” is always right here right now. We are standing on it, in the dead center of it. It is waiting for us to open our eyes, see what we are looking at, and do what needs to be done about it when/where/how it needs to beContinue reading “August 22, 2023 – B”

We all are searching, more or less desperately, for some reason to be here, for some compelling, driving force pulling us into and driving us through our life. Our life is–and has to be– a vehicle of LIFE! An experience of LIFE! A path to LIFE! Our life has to bring us to LIFE! WhenContinue reading “August 22, 2023 – A”

This photograph reflects an abiding truth of life: Luck–also called “Grace”–is the foundation of life. An hour earlier or later and this photo isn’t there. Every photograph is like that, we walk into a scene with a camera and greet what greets us there as a sheer coincidence of grace/luck and timing. In five minutesContinue reading “August 21, 2023 – B”

Fascism and democracy have been at war from the start. Fascism is fear, hatred, anger, greed, ruthlessness trying to find safety and security by killing everyone not fascist. Democracy is grace, kindness, justice, truth, peace trying to find a place where people can freely be who they are without threatening anyone. Amazing how difficult thatContinue reading “August 21, 2023 – A”

Acceptance comes in three phases: Accommodation. Acquiescence. Adaptation. Which require/flow from having no opinion about whatever comes our way and no attachment to any outcome or undertaking. We do what needs us to do it the way it needs to be done, when and where it needs to be done, with the same relationship withContinue reading “August 20, 2023 – A”

It comes down to, flows from, amounts to, shakes out as, nothing more than hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is interpretation. Perspective. Attitude. Comprehension. Understanding. Enlightenment. Seeing what we look at. Seeing how we are looking at it. Knowing what’s what, and what is called for in response to it, and what that means for us, personally, hereContinue reading “August 19, 2023 – A”

I’ve sold all of my proper camera gear and will take the photos I take with my cell phone, and spend my time going through 70,000 + images on compact disks to see what I can find hiding there. It has been apparent for a while that this was necessary and inevitable. I could noContinue reading “August 18, 2023 – B”