KEEPING OUR BALANCE
For as long as we can, we should try to keep our balance. With our feet, our speaking, our thinking, our doing, our sleeping, our […]
August 2023
COMPARATIVE REASONING
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) philosopher and theologian wrote: “Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the […]
MORE WEIGH IN
I recently went to see my doctor to have him check me for a nasty-won’t-go-away cold. Of course before one can see the doctor one […]
GET READY TO BE READY
There is going to be a fight.I don’t intend to lose. I do not fight to lose.A good fight is the one I win. ‘There […]
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY II
“The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I […]
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY I
“It is not you that shapes God.It is God who shapes you.If you are the work of Godwait for the hand of the Artistwho does […]
PRAYER TO GREAT SPIRIT
Black Elk (1863-1950) Oglala Lakota visionary wrote: “You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to […]
NOT A PROPHET
Being a weirdo, bitchy, whiney and critical are not discernment or gifts of the Spirit. This is not being prophetic or having a prophecy mantle […]
MAKES ME LIE DOWN
The well-known Twenty Third Psalm starts out: “The Lord is my shepherd,I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures.” It occurred to me one day that this text […]