This is the most bleak Fourth of July in my experience, and this is my 81st experience. The Constitution is out of vogue. The Bill of Rights is a laughter. The majority of the Supreme Court asks Trump how he wants them to vote. We have a king on his throne in the White House.Continue reading “July 04, 2025”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
July 03, 2025
Here we are, now what? Where do we go from here? How do we get there? Who says so? How do we know they know what they are talking about? What does it matter? Who says so? …I think we say so. About all of it. I think we are the absolute authority here. WhatContinue reading “July 03, 2025”
July 02, 2025
We are watching Democracy crumble as we watch. The British should have thought of this all those years ago. “Forget war! We will just buy you out. How about a million Pounds?” And the Civil War? Same thing. Lincoln makes a deal with the Confederacy. “Forget succession and we will pay you handsomely, every yearContinue reading “July 02, 2025”
July 01, 2025
Silence steadies us and stabilizes us, grounds us and points the way. When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he was saying “Live out of the silence.” The silence is also emptiness and stillness. The three are one, like the Holy Trinity, and they connect us with all that is holy, and lead us to living livesContinue reading “July 01, 2025”
July, 2025
Growing up and doing what is called for in each situation as it arises is all there is to it. All there is to our life. It is more difficult than it might appear to be.Growing is the hardest part. We all grow up against our will. That is what growing up is. Learning toContinue reading “July, 2025”
July, 2025
The best thing we can do for ourselvesis to be quiet in a routine and regular way.When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he meant, “Live out of the silence.”In the silence, we are in the presence of What Has Always Been Called “God.” The silence is the bridge between worlds–the world of conscious reality and theContinue reading “July, 2025”
June 30,2025
Waiting to know IT when we see it,and trusting ourselves to know what to do about it when we do–and in the meantime what do we do while we wait?Waiting is IT for me,and watching,seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being.That has been IT,and I have had a good time doing IT.Making this photograph,these photographs, was aContinue reading “June 30,2025”
June 29, 2025
Buddhism makes a thing about non-duality. Taoism makes a thing about Yin/Yang. Zen is more Taoist than Buddhism is, yet Zen-Buddhism is a Buddhist thing. Buddhism is the most self-contradictory religion I have ever met. Which makes it the most encased in denial religion I have ever met, and yet, get this, Buddhism is allContinue reading “June 29, 2025”
June 28, 2025
Orthodox Christianity and Gnostic Christianity form the Yin/Yang combination of the Christian Religion. In so doing, they represent Taoism at its best, balancing each other and offering the full edition of truth to meet the needs of the viewing audience. Something for everybody who knows what they are looking at (who knows what they needContinue reading “June 28, 2025”
June 27, 2025
Sit still, be quiet, see what emerges from the silence and how it suggests what is called for here, now–and how we might arise and do what needs to be done,when, where and how it needs to be done, and where that leads.Allowing inner to direct us to outer puts us on the pathof findingContinue reading “June 27, 2025”
June 26, 2025
To live from our center, core, ground, foundation, truth would mean what? Around what do we coalesce? Our identity flows from what? When we act spontaneously, without thinking, planning scheming, who do we show ourselves to be? When have we surprised ourselves by saying/doing something? That is who we are. Who is that? Make thatContinue reading “June 26, 2025”
June 25, 2025
Gnosticism was well ahead of its time.The first and second centuries CE were not ready to hear,”We all are God! We only need to wake up to this truthand be who we are!”And the people who saw things this way then were martyred, or murdered, for their service to the truth–as Jesus had foretold thatContinue reading “June 25, 2025”
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