Why I am moving my ordination from the Nazarenes to the Episcopalians.
Category: Life
Focus on the one need
Focus on the one need.
Frank Lloyd Wright quote
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”
John O’Donohue on Awakening and Surrender
John O’Donohue, the Irish poet, theologian, philosopher, insisted on beauty as a human calling. Celtic spirituality weaves the beauty of the created order with the quotidian patterns of human frailty. This beauty and frailty, O’Donohue notes, have surrounded us since long before we developed the language in which to witness them, even before there was… Continue reading John O’Donohue on Awakening and Surrender
Quietness
I’ve not blogged for 30 days, which feels like an age. In that time my life has been radically altered. The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic has swept our society, deluged my hospital; my wife has moved out to my son’s home and my son has moved in with me, as our family adjusts to coral those… Continue reading Quietness
Anne Lamott on Suffering and Action
Most of us have figured out that we have to do what’s in front of us and keep doing it… Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice… In the aftermath of loss, we do what we’ve always… Continue reading Anne Lamott on Suffering and Action
E.B. White on ‘hope’
“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and… Continue reading E.B. White on ‘hope’
The Sacred Pause
“If we cultivate awareness enough to step back a bit from simply reacting, we can insert a gap or a pause before being carried away. In that little gap there is the freedom to respond in a fresh way, less predetermined.” —Judy Lief, “Train Your Mind: Don’t Be So Predictable”
A Difficult Day
Today was a Difficult Day,” said Pooh.
Grief and control
I notice that for the last seven years I’ve been ensuring that the paper money in my wallet is sorted in order of value, and always turned the right way up, and green side up. I know what’s going on here. It started when I left a role that meant so very much to me,… Continue reading Grief and control