Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Forgivenness
At a dinner party recently, my dinner companion turned to me and, out of the blue, asked: What is forgiveness?
Whoa. A dinner party. You know, you expect light gossip, opinions on politics and culture and food, or whatever. Instead she inquired: What is forgiveness?
I have opinions and reflections on many […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Dark Night of the Soul by Bill Glenn
Monday, February 25th, 2008
What Is The Meaning of Life?
Father Anthony De Mello was an iconoclastic priest. In his book Awareness, he reports a conversation in which a paralyzed man said, “You know, Father, I really began to live after I was left paralyzed. For the first time in my life I had time to look at myself, see my life, my […]
1 Comment » - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by Robert "Voluptuous" Thompson
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Journal of the Heart
I keep a journal of sorts. Over the years I’ve tried journaling religiously as in “every morning at the same time, same place” as I have been advised to do by almost countless retreat and workshop leaders. I’ve purchased or been given all sizes and types of journals—big leather bound ones that are meant to […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Dark Night of the Soul by Patricia Moore
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
A Voluptuous Heretic
Last weekend, Bob Thompson visited Santa Fe, New Mexico, close enough to our hometown of Taos that my husband Jeff and I gleefully cancelled all previous plans and drove south to meet Bob for breakfast and then to Unity Church where I wept my way through most of Bob’s sermon.
It’s not easy to say why […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Voluptuous Thinkers by Mirabai Starr
Monday, February 11th, 2008
On rendering and grace during a political season
My brother John phoned me this past Saturday morning from a junior high school in Omaha, where he and several members of my family live. He was with his wife, his 18 year old daughter, with his three year old on his shoulders; another of my brothers, his wife, and one of our my […]
2 Comments » - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by Bill Glenn
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Finding Ourselves While Losing Our Way
I recently officiated at the memorial service for a dear friend, an extraordinary woman who lived to the ripe old age of 99. Lydia McColloch was a colorful character. She was an articulate plain speaker who wasn’t afraid to tell it like it is. Lydia never shied away from speaking her mind and she often […]