Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

We are seeking peacewith ourselves and with our life.The path to that end is simple:Stop wanting what you want,and start wanting what you ought to want instead!Start with sitting stilland being quiet,seeking the right kind ofemptiness/stillness/silence.Listening to yourself,to your body,to your life.Teach yourself to live in a quiet,attentive,looking/listening,seeing/hearing,kind of way.Check out Ann Wieser Cornell’sweb siteandContinue reading “May 28, 2024 – A”

I have out-lived the desire to return to so many photo-worthy places,this being one.The images are worthy-enough remindersof what’s there–or was there–to connect me with what is everywherein all places for eyes that see.And, it takes sitting until we seeto see what we are looking atanywhere all the time.Do we take the time is theContinue reading “May 27, 2024 – A”

Doing an internet search for”who put the bible together and when”does us the favor of moving the conversation away from”GOD,”and enables us to consider the question,”What did those Roman Catholic Menstand to gain from putting the Bible togetheras they did,in terms of ‘What to leave in and what to leave out?'”When we look at whatContinue reading “May 26, 2024 – B”

I have said here beforethat my fifth grade teachertold my mother in one of thoseparent/teacher conferences,”Jimmy looks out the window a lot.”A lot of that was becauseJimmy was safer out the window.The adults in my life were intenton molding me after their image of me.So I withdrew without knowing what I was doinglike an oysterContinue reading “May 26, 2024 – A”

Doing what needs to be done when, where and how it needs to be done,is the work that needs us to do itwith the gifts that are encoded in our DNA–but we don’t devote ourselves to that,and while away the hours daydreamingof smooth and easy,having our wayand getting what we want.Lethargy and laziness,fear and desire,haveContinue reading “May 25, 2024 – A”

We have to get into the habitof taking stock,or call it “taking a reading,”or call it “tuning into our body,”and checking out with our bodywhat’s what,and how are things going,and what is our body feeling/responding/reactingto the things we are experiencingexternally and internally here/now? We let things “pass in review”–things outside of usand things inside ofContinue reading “May 24, 2024 – A”

If we were only focused ondoing right by one another,what a sweet world it would be.What is so hard,inconvenient,undesireableabout that?Where does the vitriol come from?Whose idea is spite and viciousness?Why try to make life as miserable as we canfor everyone not like we are?I think we all should look in the mirrorfor as long asContinue reading “May 23, 2024 – A”

There is wanting/striving/getting/having,and fearing/hiding/running/denying.And there is seeing/knowing/listening/hearing, and being who we need to beto do what needs to be done–and rising to meet the occasion,time after time.There is knowing what our business needs to beand taking care of our businessthe way our business needs taking care of.And there is the old golfer’s adage,”The more IContinue reading “May 22, 2024 – B”

You can’t plan it out.You have to live it all the way through.Not implementing strategies,doing this so that will happen,going here to get there,like you are some kind of smoking geniusringing bells and racking up the wins.The people who knowanswer the doorcapable of saying “Yes”to what needs a yes,and “No,”to what needs a no.Get thatContinue reading “May 22, 2024 – A”

Inherent intuition is the guiding forcein the natural world.Everything knows what to do!Geese fly south in the winter,and north in the summer!Monarch Butterflies migrate to Mexico!Plant a seed and it will grow upwards!Babies know what to do with a nipple!We know what is “us” and what is “not us”!Where we belong and where we haveContinue reading “May 21, 2024 – A”

Nature has a way of workingthings out.Our life has a way of workingthings out.Thinking has very little impacton how things are.Things are just what they need to beto get things done.Everything is finding outwhat it can get by with.Everything has to takesomething else into account.Even black holes.It is the way things are,or, “It is theContinue reading “May 20, 2024 – B”

Living in ways that dowhat needs to be donein response to what is called forby what’s whatin each situation as it arises,meets what needs to be metin ways it needs to be met.Who can do better than that?Circumstances are always begetting circumstances.How we respond to themdetermines the quality of our life.Circumstances evoke our lifeby callingContinue reading “May 20, 2024 – A”