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Failure to take pleasure in the good things in life dishonors the gifts or accomplishments that deserve appreciation. It also dishonors your desire to know joy.
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Except for paying attention, what else is continual prayer?
Poet Samuel Green
How often do you let the sense of being rushed prevent you from enjoying the moments you have ... with your friends, with your children, with your beloved? Read More...
Have you ever had one of those moments when your heart is overwhelmed with joy? Like a flame, the feeling bursts from your center and spreads like a swelling wave across the rest of your body? Read More...
A community economy is not an economy in which well-placed persons can make a 'killing'. It is an economy whose aim is generosity and a well-distributed and safeguarded abundance. - Wendell Berry
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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Gal 15:22
Marriage as an invitation into the narrative of God's love - how we respond to this invitation ... in the moment to moment ... exposes our narrative of faith.
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I was reading the book Holy Eros by Whitehead and Whitehead the other day and came across the line: "Scholars today - social scientists as well as theologians - suggest that our hunger for contact with the foundational source of significance is part of what it means to be human." Read More...
Have you ever had one of those experiences when you are standing in the presence of someone (or a group of some one's) who believe that they know what YOU should think, believe, care about? Read More...
I stood holding my daugther's hand tears streaming down my face and hers.
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A day bits and pieces - parts of a story ...
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Its evening ... the light is fading ... I feel tired, slow, reflective. I spent the last 24 hours with graduate students and colleagues sharing stories of the human sort and was reminded of a word that has found its resonance in the cords of life over the last year. Saudade. Read More...
A while back while re-reading Gayle Brandeis’ book “Fruitflesh” I was reminded again of the luscious sensual wisdom of our bodies. Read More...
After a series of events I find myself on a ferry, hopping between island life and the mainland reflecting on parenting teenagers. Read More...
A Reader Question:
"Except for paying attention, what else is continual prayer?"
This is the last line of a poem by Samuel Green that speaks of the acuity of our attention in times of mourning. Read More...
Today as I walked around the lake near my home the chill in the air was softened by the sun’s rays reminding me that winter will in the end relent and spring will come. Read More...
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