All this striving to get, to have, to do, to be! There is nothing like it anywhere in the world of nature. We want things we have no business having. That makes us like the dragons of lore, collecting and hording treasures of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls, sapphire and jade… Things they haveContinue reading “February 17-B, 2023”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
February 12-B, 2023
Growing up is doing things we do not want to do. Things that go against the grain, that go against the flow, that disrupt the fluid ought-to-be-ness that we love about our life. Things like Gethsemane and Golgotha. And we sacrifice ourselves again, and die yet again. Again and again. Death and resurrection, Kid. DeathContinue reading “February 12-B, 2023”
February 09-C, 2023
Circumstances spawn/create/produce/beget/etc. circumstances. That’s all there is and ever has been. That is all there ever will be. We keep talking about “the beginning,” and “the end.” There is no beginning! There is no end! There is no outcome! One “outcome” leads to another set of circumstances with another “outcome,” ad nauseam. The “outcome” ofContinue reading “February 09-C, 2023”
February 04-A, 2023
Taking something on faith is having an opinion about something with no facts or substantiating evidence to support you and believing in it anyway. Faith is an opinion with no foundation or validity. And is the ground of all religion everywhere. We have sacrificed animals, children, virgins, limbs and digits based on the opinion thatContinue reading “February 04-A, 2023”
February 03-A, 2023
We owe it to one another to listen each other to the truth of our own being here and now. In order to assist you in doing that, I’ve developed a list of questions you can modify for use in your own conversations, and ask your own follow-up questions in order to take the conversationContinue reading “February 03-A, 2023”
February 02-B, 2023
Be free to make mistakes without being bound to them, repeating them, becoming them to the point where your life is just one continuing, eternal mistake in a Karmaratic, indulgent, helplessly incapable of breaking out of the tradition kind of way declaring, “I’m nothing but a screw-up! I’ve never been anything but a screw-up! I’llContinue reading “February 02-B, 2023”
February 02-A, 2023
We are told what to believe, but no one can give us our opinions. Of course, they try, but to be genuine, opinions have to come from within. Belief from without, opinions from within. Articles of faith are opinions that take themselves seriously. And, when we don’t know what we think or believe, it’s greatContinue reading “February 02-A, 2023”
February 01-A, 2023
Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Begging the questions, “Free from what?” “Free to do what?” And Pilate’s inquiry, “What is truth?” Which Jesus left hanging through all these long years of truthlessness. Which will continue as long as we look for truth “out there,” when itContinue reading “February 01-A, 2023”
January 31-D, 2023
I am taken by the flow of life through the circumstances and situations of each day– and how so few people seem to be aware of it. My sister-in-law, for instance (You know the one I mean), sees every moment as an opportunity to assert her way upon whatever is happening, with no clue regardingContinue reading “January 31-D, 2023”
January 31-B, 2023
Believe anything you want– it doesn’t matter what– as long as you do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, in each situation as it arises without an eye on what’s in it for you. How often do those who “Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker ofContinue reading “January 31-B, 2023”
January 29-B, 2023
The worst thing that ever happened to you can be the best thing that ever happened to you. The best thing that ever happened to you can be the worst thing that ever happened to you. Depending, of course, upon how you respond to what happens to you. How we respond to what happens toContinue reading “January 29-B, 2023”
January 28-A, 2023
Our work can be an expression of our original nature and innate virtues/traits/character, and it can be what we do to pay the bills in order to serve/express/exhibit our original nature and innate virtues “in the background,” “on the side,” “in our spare time.” Too often, we have to “walk two paths at the sameContinue reading “January 28-A, 2023”