Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Vitality, integrity, sincerity, heart. Foundational principles for guiding our way through life. Original nature. Innate virtues. How we do what we do best. Aligned with the center/source, balanced, in harmony, inner and outer, yin and yang. The way to The Way is The Way. Wanting more, with eyes on other things, distraction, disruption, disharmony, destabilization.Continue reading “April 28-B, 2023”

Our response to the circumstances/situation can interfere with/prevent the solution to the circumstances/situation. Our influence is the uncertain element in the work to balance the equation that is every situation as it arises. In light of Shel Silverstein’s observation, “Some kind of help is the kind of help that help is all about, and someContinue reading “April 28-A, 2023”

This image makes me want to sit on the big log on the left and wait until tomorrow so I can do it again. Scenes like this do “it” for me. Going to heavy weight fights, or attending the Super Bowl don’t. This “me/not-me” sense of who we are is but one of the expressionsContinue reading “April 27-A, 2023”

In my opinion, all theology consists of collections of opinion about opinions (Hearsay). Roman Catholic opinion is different from Protestant opinion. Reformed opinion is a form of Protestant opinion that can be sub-divided into a myriad of somewhat related opinions. The same goes for Methodist and Baptist opinion, Pentecostal and Etc. opinion. Philosophy also consistsContinue reading “April 26-B, 2023”

If the good we call good were good, and if the right we call right were right, societies around the world would be equitable, racism and sexism, etc. would not exist, and everyone would live in the service of the best interest of one another. Third World countries would not be ransacked and vandalized byContinue reading “April 23-B, 2023”

We all face situations that call for a response from us. Some are serious situations, some are recurring situations, some are trivial, some are life changing… Our place is to know what is called for and to respond as well as we can out of the gifts of our original nature and the innate virtues/specialtiesContinue reading “April 22-A, 2023”

Orthodox Christian Theology has been around from well before the beginning of this country. “God” is assumed to be, taken for granted as, the background prop holding things together. “The Father Almighty.” “The Maker of Heaven and Earth.” “Garden of Eden,” “Sin,” “Atonement,” “Forgiveness,” “Hell,” “Blah, Blah, Blah…” All of it has been invented/inherited throughContinue reading “April 21-B, 2023”

“We are on the brink of something great!” What a difference for our country and the world if the Republican Party 60 years ago had made that the foundation of every Platform in every election cycle! And lived to make it happen! But it was not to be. The foundation of every platform in everyContinue reading “April 21-A, 2023”

Some ways of being in the world are better/worse than other ways of being in the world. Being Jesus is being ourselves with a particular spin on it. Being Jesus is also being the Buddha, and being Lao Tzu, and Chung Tzu, and Lei Tzu, and Wen Tzu… and all those who have known whatContinue reading “April 20-B, 2023”

We need more time! If we only had more time! Everything would become clear with time! That is the fundamental illusion. Jesus perpetuated the folly with his, “Wisdom is known by her children” line, and even if we extend the theory to the level of the grandchildren, or the great-grandchildren, wisdom still lies unrecognized byContinue reading “April 18 – A, 2023”

Photography is being where the photos live and waiting for them to appear. I stalk photographs like a leopard stalks a warthog. I troll for photographs the way shrimpers troll for shrimp. I get up early to be in place before sunrise, and stay out late to catch afterglow following sunset. I wait, and wait,Continue reading “April 17-A, 2023”

Wu Wei is action without effort, doing without thinking, without striving, without trying. “Do or do not!” said Yoda, “There is no TRY!” That is Wu Wei, doing or doing not as required by the moment, by the here/now. That is how we live in every moment. Being wholly “of the moment” as one “thusContinue reading “April 16-A, 2023”