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resting in the center of life... 15 Feb 2013 | 11:15 am
"In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of...
The genesis of a more honest story... 11 Jan 2013 | 10:43 am
I don't exactly know when my belief in the absurd story of Genesis finally evaporated from my mind, the mythical story of God digging his hands into the earth like an artist shaping and molding the hu...
the loss of children, the birth of a child...the hope of redemptive imagination 23 Dec 2012 | 10:17 am
No matter where I seem to go this Christmas I can't seem to get out of the emotional storm and the long dark shadows that seem to diminish any hope of light. The mass murder of children; fragile life,...
a disabled God ... 19 Nov 2012 | 11:15 am
While laying on the table at the Chiropractor, 6th visit in the past 3 weeks, I was thinking how we have ethnically, culturally and humanly cleansed the gospels. I know you’re thinking, here we go aga...
returning to the garden of Love... 17 Nov 2012 | 03:37 pm
Poetry, parables are acts of imagination that offer and purpose "alternative worlds" because they are open, door ways to infinite possibilities. Can imagination be indeed a legitimate way of knowing? ...
truth...letting go of the wobbly bits 6 Nov 2012 | 09:01 pm
( Hopefully after reading my musing...you'll get the imagination in my food art ) Yesterday I had this thought in my mind tumbling around like laundry stuck in the spin cycle. I just couldn't seem to ...
the thief who messed up the ending... 1 Nov 2012 | 07:13 am
" Remember me ", the thief on the cross yells across to the God-man, Jesus. It is a profoundly haunting human question. To die, a life expired... is it a button pushed and all memory of you is wiped f...
It really is love... absolutely nothing else 26 Oct 2012 | 09:43 pm
Ever notice how good theology is found in life and not the bible. This week, Fred’s wife died suddenly. He tried his best to be with her, but somewhere between Sidney and Victoria on a Handy Dart Bus ...
CARTS...practicing resurrection 7 Sep 2012 | 03:25 am
"We have longed to taste the resurrection... the insurrection of life... We have longed to welcome its thunders and quakes, and to echo its great gifts. We want to test the resurrection in our bones. ...
Slip...sliding away...into (Be)living 5 Sep 2012 | 03:51 am
I am told, that Jesus only directly answers 3 of the 183 questions that he himself is asked in the four Gospels! This is totally surprising to me who has grown up assuming that the very job descriptio...
