Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

We want that and don’t want to give up this to get it. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too,” gets to the heart of the matter. The only way out of the morass is bearing the pain. How well–how consciously–how deliberately– how consistently–how utterly and completely– we bear the pain of beingContinue reading “September 30-B, 2022”

When “the world is too much with us late and soon” (William Wordsworth), we have to recognize it and step back. And when we cannot step back, we have to recognize that, and let it be, because it is, and live with as it is, knowing in a “This cannot be helped, so let’s doContinue reading “September 29-A, 2022”

We live to find the still point, the safe harbor, of balance and harmony. The catch is that there are no steady states of life and being. Now we have it, now we don’t. Controlling the wobbles will have to do. Emptiness, stillness and silence can help with that. Reducing noise and complexity. Diminishing vulnerabilityContinue reading “September 28-B, 2022”

We don’t have enough wonderful in our life. We ought to make it our business to increase the Wonderful Quotient in each week. It may be too much to ask of each day, but adding wonderful to each week ought to be a doable task. We owe it to ourselves to make the effort. JustContinue reading “September 28-A, 2022”

Enlightenment is not a matter of thinking anything up, but of realizing what just occurred to us and connecting that with how we have always been told things are by those who know and are right about it. Who cannot tell us anything we don’t know when we know what we know. Which is toContinue reading “September 27-C, 2022”

Start anywhere, any time. The path begins with the next step, in any direction. Just start walking with your eyes and ears open, being aware of everything. There is nothing more to enlightenment than realization, and there is always more to realize than we realize, so we are always being enlightened, we are always wakingContinue reading “September 27-A, 2022”

When Jesus said, “Wisdom is known by her children,” he is saying, “Time will tell.” The way we read and respond to the situation as it arises will be validated or invalidated in time. And that will inform how we read and respond to similar situations in the future. We learn from experience only whenContinue reading “September 24-A, 2022”

It is easy for me to see that slavery should never have happened, and that “manifest destiny” was a slogan carved out of capitalism as an excuse for taking the entire country from the indigenous people who were clearly the “destined” “owners” of the land, its waters and minerals and oil, etc. It is wrongContinue reading “September 21-C, 2022”

All we need to know is what’s what and what needs to be done about it, when, where and how in each situation as it arises all our life long. Then there is only doing it, and that’s that. What makes that so difficult? Caring. All we care about is what we want. Also knownContinue reading “September 20-B, 2022”

To get a sense of the world beyond theology, we would have to go back to the Garden of Eden. Once Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit, theology was born, and we had the world as it is today. The Knowledge of Good and Evil is theology. “This is Good, that’s Evil!” is theology.Continue reading “September 19-B, 2022”

If you are contented, comfortable, at peace, satisfied, and glad to be where you are stay there. Continue doing what you are doing, exactly as you are doing it. Go with balance, harmony and well-being all the way. Do not disrupt what is working. People all over the world are quite at home in theirContinue reading “September, 3rd Week, 2022”

Finding your life and living it means knowing what constitutes life for you, and what takes the life right out of you– and doing more of the things on the first list, and fewer of the things on the second list. Since my wife and I retired, we don’t do much at all on theContinue reading “September 19-A, 2022”