Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

We have to drop into emptiness (stillness/silence)on a regular basisto just breatheand wait for “the mud to settle and the water to clear,”and to see what meets us there.To see what arises thereto catch our eye,get our attention,and send us back into the field of actionwith a sense of what is called forto live inContinue reading “October 11, 2024 – A”

Things have to get worse before they can get better.An entire generation of greed-fueled dumb-asses has to die offin order for intuition to have its say.As the old Taoists said,”Circumstances create circumstances.”War, weather and disease are circumstances’three favorite tools to usein crafting something betterout of something worse.All it takes is time.And it takes time allContinue reading “October 09, 2024 – B”

Trust your own intuitionto show you the wayin each situation as it arises.IT. IS. THAT. SIMPLE.

It is hard to tell how olda rock is.Not that it matters.No one cares.Not even the rocks care.We all have more importantthings to do.Well, maybe not the rocks.Caring doesn’t count with rocks.Everything is equally insignificantto a rock.Leaving me to wonderat what point do thingsbegin to take on significance for us?And fade into insignificance?What leads usContinue reading “October 08, 2024 – A”

The things that interest us.The things that ignite our enthusiasm.The things we enjoy doing.The things that are meaningful to us.Are the things that bring us to life.Without them we are dead,just whiling away the hoursuntil the county coroner makes it official.I was born into an atmospherewhere everyone was dead,going through the motions of life,waiting forContinue reading “October 07, 2024 – A”

Doing what is called forin each situation as it arisesis all it takes. We get distracted by desire, fear and duty,and 10,000 other things.But the basics remain the same over timethroughout the ages.Focus and presence, kid.Focus and presence.We live to discover who we areand what we are about,simply by being who we are,doing what weContinue reading “October 06, 2024 – A”

In The Fellowship of the Ring,Gandalf said, “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”And we have help with that.Our intrinsic intuition is with usto guide us all along the way.All we have to do is dispense with ambition,aspiration, intention, desire and the willto have ourContinue reading “October 05, 2024 – A”

All of my seminary professors were brilliant people.They talked about God loving us unconditionallyagainst the backdrop of the Vietnam warand the assassination of Martin Luther Kingthe the bit about being sent to hell for not believingthe bit about God’s unconditional love.As though there were no contradictions, discrepancies,inconsistencies within the mix of the times.They were brilliantContinue reading “October 04, 2024 – A”

The Buddha and Jesus were as neurotic as the rest of us, and given to panic attacks,frustrationand uncertainty.They, too, wrestled withDesire, Fear, Duty.And they found the way throughthe right kind of emptiness,stillness and silence,just as we do.And they couldn’t tell usanything we can’t know for ourselvesjust by reflecting quietlyon our daily experiences with lifeand ourContinue reading “October 03, 2024 – A”

If hurricanes and other natural disastersare going to reshape our lives to fit the contours of a new world,we need to get creative really fast.We are out of time.And rebuilding the way it wasis just putting off adjustingto the new constraints and requirements.For example:People are rebuilding homesthat have been swept into the seaby moving 100Continue reading “October 02, 2024 – A”