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HONORING THE SACRED

“Never think too much about what you could do, but about what you could be… What matters is the ground on which the works are built.”  Meister Eckhart  I’m usually well focused. Not so these days. Whether I’m cooking dinner, … Continue reading

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LETTING GO OF HATRED

“The Buddha declares, ‘Enraged with hate, with mind ensnared, humans aim at their own ruin and at the ruin of others.’” (Jack Kornfield, https://jackkornfield.com/nature-hate/ ) Yes, the world is suffering. Armed conflicts are raging in the Middle East, Russia and Ukraine, … Continue reading

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EXPANDING TIME, CULTIVATING HOPE

“The heart of Tao is immortal, The mysterious fertile mother of us all, Of heaven and earth, Of every thing And not-thing  Invisible yet ever-present,  you can use it forever without using it up.” (The Tao Te Ching of Lao … Continue reading

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TRANSFORMING HATE

“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?” (Psalm 42:5) The holidays have come and gone. A new year is upon us. I find myself burdened with an ever present anxiety about the world. Chaos and loss dominate … Continue reading

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LONGING TO BE SEEN

 “… I have now seen the One who sees me…”  (Genesis 16:13) All of us long to be seen. Being seen is relational. It requires another to be the “seer”. When people see us, they actively listen, they hear us. … Continue reading

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EMERGENCE

In the late 1990s, a movement began within Christianity called the “emergent church”. It sought to clarify the core principles of Christianity that lay beyond warring denominational differences. The Emergent Church aimed to be a path toward Christian unity. Emergent … Continue reading

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