Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Go with the flow of energy guiding you through your life to life spilling over, pouring out as blessing and grace upon you and all those who come your way. Follow the flow of energy as it leads you where you need to be, trusting your sense of Yes and No from here to thereContinue reading “March 18-B, 2023”

The heroes in Jesus’ view were the prodigal son’s father, the good Samaritan, the sower who went out to sow, the gardener who said, “Let me tend the fig tree, and give it another year.” The people who shared a cup of water with the thirsty, a loaf of bread with the hungry, who visitedContinue reading “March 18-A, 2023”

Money is a tool for making/buying the tools we need to do what is ours to do in in serving/expressing our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties in doing what needs to be done in each situation as it rises. But who understands our mission in these terms? We use money to pass a goodContinue reading “March 17-A, 2023”

That Which Has Always Been Called God comes packed in our DNA, is written into our genetic code. When Jesus said, “The Father and I are One,” he was speaking for all of us. The Johannine Prayer (That they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me), Jesus’ statement,Continue reading “March 14-B, 2023”

We are not free to be anybody, to do anything. We are bound to our genetic make-up, to our nature and our traits–our virtues, our specialties, our knacks and proclivities– our particular ways of seeing/doing/being. That simplifies things for us. We can stop thinking we should be more like someone else than we are, andContinue reading “March 14-A, 2023”

Noise, complexity and drama run our life. Emptiness, stillness and silence wait their turn. We just want to be happy. That’s pretty much it. What we do with it from this point on tells the tale. Won’t somebody tell us how to be happy? All of the time? –0–

I have been perfectly suited for most of the stuff I have done in my life. I did not belong subbing for a third grade class, and knew it when I agreed to do it– at 8 AM the day of. I did not belong in a scuba diving church camp trip with Sr. Highs,Continue reading “March 04-A, 2023”

Which is the greater miracle: that all of this is the result of a meticulous Grand Plan (The Plan of Salvation), with everything worked out in the finest detail, like the number of feathers on every bird at any time– or that nothing is? That everything is the result of randomness and accident, with circumstancesContinue reading “March 02-B, 2023”

I think things do not ever settle into how they are going to be. Never settling is as settled as it gets. Something is always happening. Circumstances beget circumstances, and things go to hell again. Another war comes along. Another pandemic strikes. Floods and droughts chase each other throughout eternity. The latest incarnation of theContinue reading “March 01-B, 2023”

The point is not to have what we want and live happily ever after. What does wanting and happy know? The point is to be who we are within the terms and conditions, context and circumstances, time and place of our lives. To be true to ourselves in each here/now of our living. To workContinue reading “March, 2023”

Ourselves–the term sounds strange until we understand that “we” are composed of a multitude of layers, all with something at stake in who we are, and our conscious exterior’s rightful place is to tune into our interior’s (Which we call “The Unconscious” because we are not conscious of it) interests/leanings/drifts/directives, so that we form aContinue reading “Spring Months, 2023”

The First Noble Truth of Buddhism is “All life is suffering.” I say, “Stop right there! Suffering is a frame of mind! A way of seeing! A way of evaluating what you are looking at! An opinion! “All life is an opinion! The way to be free of suffering is to change your mind aboutContinue reading “February 18-A, 2023”