Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Our best hope of influencing the futureis how we respond to the present.What we do here has an impact there.The quality and degree of impactis determined by countless factorsat work within the circumstances of the moment,but.We increase our chances of a future betterthat it would otherwise beby the way we live in each situation asContinue reading “July 02, 2024 – A”

When we are being swept alongby circumstances,it’s best to go with the flowand attend our intuitionso that we know when a door opensand we can walk through.At times such as these,just waiting it out makes as much sense as anything else.It helps to wait it outin the company of the right people.And it is notContinue reading “July 01, 2024 – A”

“We know when we are on the beamand when we are off it (Joseph Campbell),and we are the authoritydetermining what does and does notconstitute the way, the truth and the lifefor us,and we don’t have a clue.We had better get a clue,and a good one.Here is a hint:We are looking for a solid relationshipwith ourContinue reading “July, 2024”

Christianity needs to dump theologyand believing,and go back to being who Jesus was,an intuitive fully human being,with his eye on doing what neededto be donein each situation as it arose,trusting himself to realize/knowwhat that waswithout any reference to codified instructionsin the matter.Simple.Clear.Timely.No?

I was standing in a cotton fieldduring planting seasonwith a farmer-member of my congregationin Batesville, Mississippiwhere the hills meet the delta,in a wide-ranging conversationdealing with race relations and gay rightswhen he said,”Hell, Jim! This isn’t the way I SEE things–THIS IS THE WAY THINGS ARE!!!And I said,”And that’s the way you see things!”We laughed togetherContinue reading “June 29, 2024 – B”

We are always trying to turn thingsto our advantage.And here we are.We are here, now,with things just as they are,because we, as a species,are always trying to turn things to our advantage.Call it “The Profit Motive.”We want what we want,when we want it,where we want it, the way we want it,for as long as weContinue reading “June 29, 2024 – A”

The path unfolds before thosewho start walkingin the service of their intrinsic intuition,with no outcomeor destination in mind.To walk as a devoted partner,not as a way of getting somewhere,is to be mindfully awareof each momentand what is called for thereas the purpose of the journey.This here, this now, is the point!How faithfully do we respondContinue reading “June 28, 2024 – A”

You know what the problem is?We could call it the human problem. We are the problem.We know what we want,but we do not want know what we ought to want.And even if we did,we would not do what we ought to want.Which is to say,we would not do what we ought to do.We would notContinue reading “June 27, 2024 – A”

The Things I don’t know anything aboutwould fill the cosmos,and do.I am the Puer Aeternus,and you may be as well–unless you are female, and then it becomes puella aeterna,the eternal child,innocent of guile and deceit,pure and well-intended,with a gentle heart,and no chance of ever growing up,and sizing things up,and winning the day.But,quite capable of stumblingContinue reading “June 26, 2024 – A”

A raccoon has its businessand it goes about it every dayas best it can.It has preferences but no opinions,no agendas, no greed, no angst…It just deals with what comes upin each situation as it arises,and lets that be that.Every natural thing is that way.Even me and you.But we aspire to be morethan a bird inContinue reading “June 25, 2024 – A”

The Flow seems to consist ofsitting in the right kind of silencewaiting to rise and enter the field of actionto do what needs to be done there,when, where and how it needs to be done,then dropping back into the right kind of silence,waiting to rise and enter the field of action…round after round.Anything that disruptsContinue reading “June 24, 2024 – B”

Life is to be enduredas a series of trials and ordeals,and the quality of the spiritwith which we take what comes the entire length of the path,as though to say,”Is this all there is?I thought there would be more to it!”And the last trial to be enduredis the ease with which we let gowhen itContinue reading “June 24, 2024 – A”