Here is why sometimes suddenly the sadness
will just overwhelm me... here is the reason...
I let it all come to me, I let it fall straight down
sharply into my spirit and my body, I let it pierce
me, I let it hurt me terribly and make me vomit...
my sons and daughters are dying in madness
darker than any had dreamt possible... randomness
of terrors and the earth burns and floods and
promises an end so painfully soon of how the
earth feels to us... the extremities will not
relent... watch the winds... watch the people's...
CRY OUT!! Cry and grown and yearn...
Go where it points you, Trust what you find,
Achieve what it promises or soon
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Monday, November 5, 2018
FIRESIDE CHAT: Satisfaction Begets Satisfaction
4. Satisfaction begets Satisfaction
Gratitude is satedness, contentment or the felt sense of a satisfied fullness. Wanting what we have, blessing by blessing, we fully enjoy each gift. Contentment is a posture of ongoing satisfaction which is carried as ease and peacefulness without pestering among choices or sorting through endless preferences.
Instead of wondering if we are comfortable enough or satisfied enough as though in a cycle of perpetual wanting, we intend with a loving energy, from the inside out, to gaze upon the beauty of nature, to pray over a loved one with a smile, to bless with a nod each bird, touch with our eyes each twig.
Satisfaction with what is can be the next choice you make. Where you take it is up to you. Thanksgiving is an exercise in the full enjoyment of God's bounty of which we, from butterfly to bingo night, may happily partake.
FIRESIDE CHAT: World Care
FIRESIDE CHAT
3. Attentive to World Care
The world project is well underway and those of us who live now to speak of it witness yet another of humanities episodic movements toward contraction and isolation, vengeance, violence and fear mongering between people groups, oddly among those who would refer to themselves as more civilized or "blessed."
The world's wealth and power not only remains disproportionately located but highly consolidated among leaders who benefit directly from oligarchic national control and who also vivify the same opportunistic pattern among others like themselves, thus putting the globe at risk of being ruled by the wealthiest few for their own benefit and with an eye toward collaborating to secure such control with the promise of longevity.
It is incumbent upon us to stay alert, therefore, and to remain vigilant in our discourse; that which happens on social media, among the faculties and students of our universities, the scholars and pastors, the artists and poets. It's an important time to remember the power of speech, the shaping and mis-shaping capacity of language. It's an important time to remember the power of paying attention to one another carefully by listening to our family members from all around the world with great care, focus and a willingness to see ourselves through their own faces of concern and intention.
Humanity is not a given. Humanity is the fragile blossom of a well tended, living and fragile planet filled with vulnerable persons who need each other. It shows up while we are humane, when we enact the peace and empathy and harmony we long for.
3. Attentive to World Care
The world project is well underway and those of us who live now to speak of it witness yet another of humanities episodic movements toward contraction and isolation, vengeance, violence and fear mongering between people groups, oddly among those who would refer to themselves as more civilized or "blessed."
The world's wealth and power not only remains disproportionately located but highly consolidated among leaders who benefit directly from oligarchic national control and who also vivify the same opportunistic pattern among others like themselves, thus putting the globe at risk of being ruled by the wealthiest few for their own benefit and with an eye toward collaborating to secure such control with the promise of longevity.
It is incumbent upon us to stay alert, therefore, and to remain vigilant in our discourse; that which happens on social media, among the faculties and students of our universities, the scholars and pastors, the artists and poets. It's an important time to remember the power of speech, the shaping and mis-shaping capacity of language. It's an important time to remember the power of paying attention to one another carefully by listening to our family members from all around the world with great care, focus and a willingness to see ourselves through their own faces of concern and intention.
Humanity is not a given. Humanity is the fragile blossom of a well tended, living and fragile planet filled with vulnerable persons who need each other. It shows up while we are humane, when we enact the peace and empathy and harmony we long for.
Saturday, November 3, 2018
The Freedom of Thanksgiving
FIRESIDE CHAT
2. The Freedom of Thanksgiving
The greatest liberating power on earth is gratitude. Present to one's own life, practicing the intentional naming of daily blessings causes one to see again, in its immediacy, the life-giving power of the bread, the cup; the in-breath, the out-breath.
Paying attention to what we consume and the comforts of our daily rhythms can constitute a sort of unending mindfulness which has little space for comparison or envy which can so quickly captivate us.
Set free from unawareness and an indifference to the gifted and multilayered nature extant amidst the wondrous complexities of the world surrounding us, we at last know how to receive properly and also how to share. Remembering this leaves me wanting to give as I have received.
2. The Freedom of Thanksgiving
The greatest liberating power on earth is gratitude. Present to one's own life, practicing the intentional naming of daily blessings causes one to see again, in its immediacy, the life-giving power of the bread, the cup; the in-breath, the out-breath.
Paying attention to what we consume and the comforts of our daily rhythms can constitute a sort of unending mindfulness which has little space for comparison or envy which can so quickly captivate us.
Set free from unawareness and an indifference to the gifted and multilayered nature extant amidst the wondrous complexities of the world surrounding us, we at last know how to receive properly and also how to share. Remembering this leaves me wanting to give as I have received.
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