This adventure of writing a daly reflection has opened before me as an exploration of myself and our (corporate/universal) need for this kind of exploration/realization/awakening/ enlightenment worldwide. Everything will do that if we let it.Everything is a portal, a port-key, a threshold to ourselves if we have the courage/luck to see what we look at,Continue reading “July 21, 2025”
Tag Archives: God
July 18, 2025
The church came before the Bible–specifically the Church of Rome which took the lead in establishing the official version of the Bible in 397 CE. Which gave the Church 397 years to fine-tune the version of the Bible that was declared, by the Church, to be “The Word of God,” but which actually was theContinue reading “July 18, 2025”
July 12, 2025
Walking slowly with our thoughts through the fresh greens of spring awakens hope and confidence in our ability to meet the day on the day’s terms, see what is called for and do what needs to be done about it, when, where and how it needs to be done, and let that be that. TheContinue reading “July 12, 2025”
July, 2025
The best thing we can do for ourselvesis to be quiet in a routine and regular way.When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he meant, “Live out of the silence.”In the silence, we are in the presence of What Has Always Been Called “God.” The silence is the bridge between worlds–the world of conscious reality and theContinue reading “July, 2025”
June 23, 2025
Making a montage of the wisdom outlets of history produces a “single story” of what it takes to “right the world” over the course of several lifetimes. The elements required read like a spiritual recipe for “the right life.”High on the list are integrity, sincerity, authenticity, but I find the most revered quality is beingContinue reading “June 23, 2025”
June 10, 2025
The Four Points of Heresy1. Orthodoxy killed Jesus. The Priests, the Elders, The Scribes and Pharisees, the Sanhedrin were all the epitome of Orthodoxy. As to their faith they were without sin. So don’t hang your hat on orthodoxy. There is nothing, Biblically speaking, to commend it. 2. Jesus was crucified for heresy and blasphemy.Continue reading “June 10, 2025”
June 05, 2025
Think of this image as theology broadcast to thousands of people of a scene that never existed anywhere in real, actual, time.In real, actual time, the tree in the middle is the only one that is real and actual. At the time I took its picture, it lived across the street from my house inContinue reading “June 05, 2025”
May 16, 2025 – B
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) said, “The last leave-takingis leaving God for God.” Eckhart was a German Catholic who was found guilty of heresy and died (perhaps murdered) before his sentence was served. It takes a heretic to see/speak the truth, it seems.The leave-taking I have in mind is leaving the God of the Bible and theologyContinue reading “May 16, 2025 – B”
May 10, 2025
Sustaining, maintaining, regaining our balance and harmonyis the key to a well-lived life.Art, music and nature, trance states, babies and petshelp to center and focus us in order to do what is called for”on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.”And, That Which Has Always Been Called “God.”I say “That Which Has Always Been CalledContinue reading “May 10, 2025”
April 26, 2025
We live to learn to know and trust ourselvesin order to find the way and know it when we do.We are looking for enlightenment/realization/recognition/knowing.And we live lost and adrift,awash in uncertainty, fear, lethargy, addiction, without direction or purpose”on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.”Sex, money, drugs and alcohol are the best we can do.WeContinue reading “April 26, 2025”
April 17, 2025
I want to address the matter of Godbut it is difficult to do because words get in the way.The word, God, is so “loaded” as to be meaningless as a wordbecause there is no way of knowing what its reference is. To what is it referring?We have to spend all our time saying what weContinue reading “April 17, 2025”
April 13, 2025
Next Sunday will be Easter Sunday.For forty years and six monthsI stood before some congregationand talked about the resurrection of Jesus.What I said changed considerably over that time.I am proud to be able to say that,because the overriding trend is for it not to change at all over the spanof 2,025 years.Do you believe JesusContinue reading “April 13, 2025”
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