Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Being moved by that which moves us is the common element uniting all living things. That which lives, lives as “the moved in response to the mover.” The mover–the moving “thing”– is the wonder/radiance of life itself. Life being moved by life, by the encounter with the reality of life, with the astonishment of beingContinue reading “September 23, 2023 – A”

There is the way things are, and the way things need to be, and the ways things are said ought to be. and the way we want things to be, If we can apprehend the way things are and live in service to the way things need to be, dismissing the way things are saidContinue reading “September 22, 2023 – A”

We do not see what we cannot articulate. Articulation is the hidden source of seeing. Taking up the work of saying what needs to be said is also the work of seeing what needs to be seen. The less we have to say, the less we are capable of seeing. Where photography is concerned, theContinue reading “September 21, 2023 – A”

The only thing between us and what has always been called “God” is sin. But not sin as action or state of being. It is sin as concept or idea. It is the belief in sin as a human condition that is the problem. Dump it immediately– and, POOF, like that, sin is gone, andContinue reading “September 20, 2023 – A”

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with its four pairs of opposites: Thinking/Feeling Extraversion/Introversion Sensing/Intuition Judging/Perceiving is one way of conceptualizing the eight fundamental/foundational forces shaping the way we are, and therefore, the way things are, worldwide through the ages. Life is but a dance of opposites clashing over how things are. How things are is aContinue reading “September 19, 2023 – A”

We are our responsibility. We are in charge of our balance and harmony, our integrity, sincerity, spirit, energy, vitality, mind, body, heart-soul– within the forces of destabilization, disruption, disharmony, diversion, distraction, disinterest, denial, chaos and lethargy. It is as easy as our answer to the question: What do we live to do? There is whatContinue reading “September 18, 2023 – A”

When Carl Jung was asked if he believed in God, he replied, “I do not believe–I KNOW. When you KNOW you know the God beyond Gods, beyond theology, beyond sin and redemption, beyond words beyond thinking, beyond reason, logic, intellect, discourse, etc. And relax into knowing what you know, and have always known: The physicalContinue reading “September 17, 2023 – A”

Reflection is waiting to see what occurs to us in the presence of openness to perception. What makes us think that the way we think is the way to think? That the way we see is the way to see? That the way we live is the way to live? That the way we perceiveContinue reading “September 16, 2023 – A”

Being among the dunes is one of the quietest places in my experience. The sun rises over silence and stillness, yet the dunes are moving, transforming themselves, all the time. Constant motion has never been so still. So apparently lifeless. A place where nothing ever happens here. It is a wonder to behold, and leadsContinue reading “September 15, 2023 – A”

Emptiness/Stillness/Silence are the real Holy Trinity. Ask anyone who knows, they will all tell you the same thing. Even the Bible chips in with “Good things come to those who wait.” And from Native Red Cloud on “X”, quoting Chief White Eagle, Ponca, we get: “Go forward with courage. When you are in doubt, beContinue reading “September 14, 2023 -A”

We are always placing the emPHAsis upon the wrong silLAble, as the old saying goes. We are always fretting about our vulnerability, and never say a thing about our invulnerability, when, in all truth, we are invincible. We may be scared and rumpled but we are sill ticking. After all these years. Ticking is whatContinue reading “September 13, 2023 – A”

We find our own way to what has life for us– no one can tell us that. We know for ourselves what is “Yes!” and what is “No!”, without knowing “Why?”, or caring “Why?” And anyone who tries to get us to explain usually does so with the motive of arguing us out of ourContinue reading “September 12, 2023 – A”