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Author Toko-Pa Turner wrote: “Our longing for community is so powerful that it can drive us to join groups, relationships, or systems of belief that give a false impression of belonging. These places of false belonging grant us conditional membership, requiring us to cut parts of ourselves off in order to fit in.” How true! … Continue reading Fitting In or Belonging?
Imagine if you were to take each of the minutes you lived in any given day and put them in one of two columns – one for those minutes where you were present in the reality of the moment and the others in a column for those moments where you were lost in your imagination … Continue reading Imagine…..
Taking ourselves too seriously is one of the great sorrows of our lives. Yes, intense, sad, unjust things are happening all the time, but the spirit loves to be lightened and humor is one of the greatest ways to do it. Studies show that humor heals and can sooth our stress – ask Dr. Patch … Continue reading Minister’s Musings on Joy
After experiencing some time down with illness the past few weeks and knowing we were entering the month to explore the practice of trust, I found myself frequently asking: “what does trust in a situation like this even mean”? Did I “trust” that I would get well? Yes, and yet … And yet, as I … Continue reading In This I Trust
It is a phrase I find myself repeating often. “Every voice matters.” Now I know what you may be thinking right now. Does every voice matter? Well ok, that’s a fair question when we consider the loud, often violent and harmful voices that are on the main stage of politics right now. For the sake … Continue reading Every Voice Matters
With the recent passing of President Jimmy Carter I have been thinking a lot about the stories that we tell about each other. While watching a documentary about President Carter I was reminded that even former Presidents have little control over these narratives and it made we wonder, can a story ever really be fully … Continue reading The Rest of the Story….
I am quite sure that, like most children, I spent most of my earliest years living in a wonderful state of presence. In fact, watching my now 1 year old granddaughter live her life I am reminded how young children possess an incredible ability to not only be present in the moment but to allow … Continue reading The Myth of When-Then
In a workshop I attended many years ago I was invited to write a letter to my former self. At the time it was a radical idea. I had had my share of hardships in my short life and there had been many things that I had wished I would have done differently, but, I … Continue reading Minister’s Musings on Repair
“What did you just say?” It’s a question I find myself yelling at my newsfeed all too often. After another bizarre claim about migrants or women or trans folk I find myself wanting to do anything but listen. How could I and maybe more importantly, should I, be listening when the speaker is so off … Continue reading What Did You Say?
Who doesn’t love a nice invitation? It’s great to be invited to a party or to a new job or just to the movies. And yet…. Sometimes the power of invitation is in knowing when to shut the door and say, “no, thank you.” I love the Rumi poem that we shared in Touch Points … Continue reading The Invitation
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