Category Archives: Fields
Working with the Invisible World
(It’s almost exactly a year since my last post. It’s good to be back. Being Clerk of TCFM is done, and it went well, despite significant challenges. I couldn’t have done it without Anne S. Now, on to the current … Continue reading
Sitting in the Fire, Part 2
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Sitting in the Fire, Part 1
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i[‘GoogleAnalyticsObject’]=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,’script’,’//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js’,’ga’); ga(‘create’, ‘UA-43528907-1’, ‘gaiavoices.net’); ga(‘send’, ‘pageview’); Sharing with a friend, the despair of my previous post, she asked me if I had consulted the I Ching. I confessed that had not occurred to me. Silly me. … Continue reading
Sinned?
I’m doing hard work. I want to give myself credit for that. Seeing myself as less than who I believed myself to be. Working not to let the pain get in the way, too much. Working to breathe into my … Continue reading
A Word-wright, in Search of the Right
Looking back, I would say I have not written here in over a month because I was spent. I use “spent” because “exhausted” has some negative connotations that are not right. I could have said “happily exhausted,” but “spent” also … Continue reading
An Awakening Calm
Calm has entered my life. Not that my life is completely calm but, sometime in the last few days, a tightly-stretched band of anxiety let go. Thinking of it as I write this, I breathe a sigh of relief. While … Continue reading
Theism & Non-Theism
I’ve had two strong conversations about theology and its place in our midst in the last two days. We have touched on topics of “Gospel Ministry” and “Gospel Order” but what has been stirred in me are thoughts about naming … Continue reading
Gaia, Great Mother, has many hidden treasures
Gaia, Great Mother, has many hidden treasures To delight us, and nourish us, her human children. Metals, hidden in the ground. So far we have found Copper, Gold Tin ____. We have found coal! Oil! Of course, it’s not a … Continue reading
About Christ, Part 2
I offer my inner journey as a gift to my community. Like the gift of a child, it doesn’t have to amount to much, by worldly standards, to be sincere and to be a treasure, to those with eyes to … Continue reading
Tragedy and Transcendence
James speaks with the voice of a poet, in his April 24 comment, responding to my last week’s post. His closing paragraph: So, how do we find our way, as individuals and as a species, between fully acknowledging the great … Continue reading
