“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is delightful to be back after a particularly nasty bout of shingles. A virus is an insidious
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Digesting In the In-Between Place
Every virtue stands between two vices – that of excess and deficiency. We must find the mean: the Golden Middle way. Aristotle, paraphrased from The Nicomachean Ethics I grew up in the Episcopal Church, which I loved the same way I loved Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden and The Dick Van Dyke Show. You know, the
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The Beauty of the No-Brainer
“The only way the truth gets into any of our lives is by God’s trickery, when our guard is down.” Richard Rohr, Jesus’ Alternative Plan You may be backing off from that statement like it’s a case of the Corona virus, but think about it, will you, before you run for the heresy vaccine? There
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In the Kingdom of What Is
“Happy are they who find their homeIn the kingdom of what is.” Psalm 2, as interpreted by Norman Fischer in OPENING TO YOU Do you ever look back at your really young youth and long for the simplicity of just accepting what the grown-ups told you as true? I admit that kind of backward-facing only happens
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Staying On the Line
“I believe that prayer without meditation is like hanging up on God before God can speak.” Julia Cameron, The Listening Path “But meditation is dangerous. If you empty your mind, you’re making room for Satan to take over without you even knowing it.” That’s a statement I’ve heard in various forms from my fellow Christians,
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Making Matcha
“Solitude isn’t loneliness.Solitude is when the entire sereneuniverse seems to surround andhold you quietly.” Victoria Erickson I’ve been what my mother called “a tea granny” since I was twelve years old. Back then it was weak (as in I barely introduced the bag to the cup before I yanked it out) and loaded with sugar,
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How Do We KNOW?
“We cannot know just by going to church, reading Scripture or listening to someone else talk about it.” Richard Rohr, Jesus’ Alternative Plan In 2022 when I was getting ready for my once-in-a-lifetime trip to Ireland, anyone I talked to who had been there immediately launched into a description of how amazing it was. Some
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