Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Everyone needs helpfinding their lifeand living it.Finding the wayto living their life.Some guidance.Some direction.Some encouragement.Some support.Some purpose.Who are we?How did we get here?Why are we here?What are we supposed to be doingwith the time left for living?What is life for?We are lost and alonewithout a support systemto take us under their careand listen us alongContinue reading “January 13, 2024 – A”

Having what we wantwhen we want itthe way we want itfor as long as we want itis out of the question.This realization,when accepted and implemented,is called “growing up.”It implies changing our mindabout what is important.This kind of growing uptransforms our relationshipwith our worldand transforms our world.If we want to change the world,we only have toContinue reading “January 12, 2024 – A”

If you aren’t aware of another of my sites on WordPress, you might click on this link to take you there:https://jimwdollar.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/january-11-2024/Conversation from the heartabout things that matter to the heartare among the most sacredof our life experiences.And I am dismayed at the astounding absenceof that from our lives.Why don’t we talk with each otherabout theContinue reading “January 11, 2024 – A”

Look.Listen.Pay attentionto what you are seeingand hearing.Particularly, to what is coming from within you.Where do you get the ideasthat are your ideas?From the outside?Or from the inside?How do you decide what’s so is so?Who tells you what to think/do?How do you know they knowwhat they are talking about?Especially if it is you, you are listeningContinue reading “January 10, 2024 – A”

There is what we do,and there is how we feel about what we do.Refusing to allow our feelings to get in the wayof what needs to be done–and being able to make an accurate assessmentof how well we are doing it–are crucial to maintaininga healthy attituderegarding doing what needs to be done.There is the wayContinue reading “January 09, 2024 – A”

We go meet the daytrusting that we have what we needto find what we needto do what needs to be done.With emptiness, stillness and silenceas traveling companionswe have what it takes to keep showing upfor our date with the day.And the day keeps showing upfor its date with us.Until, like that we are led throughContinue reading “January 08, 2024 – A”

We keep going in service to what needs usand what needs to be done.We meet the momentthe way the moment needs to be metwith the gifts of our original natureand the innate virtues/attributesat our disposal.We take who we are in one handand what needs to be done in the otherand get the two hands togetherinContinue reading “January 07, 2024 – A”

Where do you go for solace and consolation?The company of flowers is alwaysa good place for me to be.And the company of people who are like flowersin that they lighten any roomand bring a presence of wellbeingto life wherever they go.There is a psychic sense of peaceand pleasure available to usin a number of places.HorsesContinue reading “January 06, 2024 – B”

Having things in your lifelike ideas,or a stick that needs whittling,or a cobbler that needs baking,or eating…Anything that siezes youwith a sense of urgency about itand a vibrancy that throbs withthe rhythm of life,sending you off on a missionthat must be done NOW,is a very good thing,and we need more of it in our day,everyContinue reading “January 06, 2024 – A”

We find the way,not by seeking what we want,but by seeing what needs to be doneand what needs us to do itin each situation as it arises.Living out of the emptiness/stillness/silenceand incorporating Jon Kabat-Zinn’s approachto Mindfulness Based Stress Reductionin our approach to the moment.You can start your association with Jon Kabat-Zinnby watching all of hisContinue reading “January 5, 2024 – A”

In any situation,there is where life is to be foundand where there is nothingbut the dead and dying.The difference lies in ourperception/perspective.By the way we look at things,we prescribe life or death.In any situation,there is what brings us to lifeand there is what reducesour chances at life to the levelof minus numbers.How we see whatContinue reading “January 04, 2024 – A”

Jesus did not knowwhether he was coming or going–and that’s a good thing,”maybe, the best of things”(Stephen King).He said as much himself:”Don’t let your left handknow what your right hand is doing!””The Spirit is like the windthat blows where it will,”implying that not even the Spiritknows what it will be doing next.Jesus lays out examplesContinue reading “January 03, 2024 – B”