Getting Back To The Garden
We are all familiar with the allegorical tale of the Garden Of Eden, which most esoteric...
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Meeting the Divine in an Airport Parking Lot
A knot seizes in my throat. My eyes start to water. I bite my lip like a child, trying to hold back the tears, but they slalom down my cheeks and I taste the salt on my chapped lips. My hands are clasping the top of the steering wheel while I sit at the airport parking lot gate with tears streaming.
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Beliefs Are Resting Places On Our Journey
I have friends who are further right than the Right Brothers. I have other friends who are further left than Left-handed. These are kind people, generous, intelligent, and well-informed people. What separates them?
What they believe to be true, for one.
About politics. About religion. About sports. About raising children.
And that can be a problem because beliefs can divide.
Beliefs are way stations on the way to deeper or different truths.
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For The Love Of Snacks
Snacks provide a holy opportunity.
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Small Talk: Life on a Farm
I can’t really understand what goes on inside plants and animals. But I try to find out and to reach out, study, observe. Even still, I have to dwell in both the knowing and not-knowing, as listener and translator.
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.