It should be simple to return home. Honestly, it should be simple to do a lot of things that aren’t simple.
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Things are not always what they seem. Just consider ash and time. The end of a thing. The true unmoved mover. Remnants. Immutability.
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The Avengers-an elite force.
Is that a force of protection? A force of justice? A force for vengeance? A force for good? A force for evil? A force for vigilantes?
She departs for imagination. She withdraws. She leaves. Not to be rude or show disinterest in the current happening, but to find the creativity that dwells within.
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I’ve written a bit about possibilities and about paradigm shifts. Experimenting with both these things takes some doing. Or being.
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In a recent daily meditation from Richard Rohr (January 5 to be precise) In which Cynthia Bourgeault says, “We’re living in an era right now which some would call a major paradigm shift.”
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I, like many of you, have been inundated with news summarizing the good and the not good of 2020. As we move into 2021, we all have a choice to make.
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Like a blaze of color across a graphite landscape, an Epiphany of hope arrives as an outrage.
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God who created the sun that gives us light and the plants who turn that light into energy, we give you thanks! Incarnate God who came to table, we give you thanks! Holy Spirit who fills us with wonder, we give you thanks!
Amen.
Son of God who sat and told stories, Creator God who filled the stones with tales of mystery, Spirit of God who inhabits our stories, be they tales of joy or sorrow, grant us the courage to tell the truth—our truth.
Amen.
Spirit of God, who hovered over the chaos of the waters, meet us in the chaos of movement. Meet us on the way.
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On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him.
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For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Psalm 95:1–7a
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The man sat by the entrance of his home. His skin was loose and brown, weathered by the steadily accumulating years. The moments of his life stretched around him like a spreading pool of rich green olive oil on a table top.
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Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.
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Long ago in the small, calm city of Atlanta, two churches had thriving ministries in their neighborhoods.
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Since 2010, thirteen new Methodist Churches have been born in Northern Tanzania. Most of these churches were in areas of extreme poverty, domestic violence, and hunger where children regularly died of preventable diseases.
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Most people would think that because I am a self-taught chef who operates a catering business, the table is all about the food for me.
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A lot of questions come at you post-pilgrimage. The easy ones are asked by polite friends that want you to know they noticed you were gone for a bit. “Have a good time? Glad you went?” Easy. “I had a wonderful time. I’m very glad I went.”
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“When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.”
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