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Tag Archives: Community
The sacredness in the ordinary
Much of my efforts in connecting the community are about holding space for the normal. The community meals, the dialogs in circle, tool libraries, community gardens, and coffee dates. When these become special and enough, we begin to see the Divine working all around us. We don’t need anything more than what we have. We are able to LIVE into the world we want to see transformed into. Continue reading
Being OK with Naivite… living with a vision
A vision with a task can change the world. How are you changing the world? That’s what I want to hear! And if it has a “You are so naive” attached to it… that’s ok with me. Where there is no vision, the people will perish. Continue reading
Unanswered prayer (part 2)
Folks, I want what I do to be for the village… the community… the place where the spiritual unites with the physical. So, for me, taking classes at George Fox Seminary to get my certificate in spiritual formation is about … Continue reading
Unanswered prayer… a response and a theology
Subscribe via email (LINK)… Find me on Facebook! Folks, I want what I do to be for the village… the community… the place where the spiritual unites with the physical. So, for me, taking classes at George Fox Seminary to … Continue reading
The difficulty of sustaining our prayer life
While prayer can be such a bountiful blessing, a centering practice, and a means of grounding ourselves in wisdom and truth, it is surely not easy. As I said above, we as humans are created with the desire to love and be loved, to know and be known. This is our journey. Unfortunately, we have a will, an ever-striving ego, which essentially drives us to take matters into our own hands, to seize control. Continue reading
