#TuesdayMeditation

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Crossing the Boundaries

After Hurricane Katrina, I remember going into neighborhoods devastated by the storm … and going onto the land on which people, now gone, had walked and lived. It was eerie; in spite of it being the middle of the day,

February 22, 2017 No Comments

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On Being Still

It is hard to be still sometimes. We are in a turbulent time. For many, it feels as though there is no bottom to stand on, no solid ground. Rather, it feels like the unknown is hovering over us,

February 13, 2017 No Comments

Screen Shot 2017 02 13 At 10.35.50 Pm

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On Being Still

It is hard to be still sometimes. We are in a turbulent time. For many, it feels as though there is no bottom to stand on, no solid ground. Rather, it feels like the unknown is hovering over us,

February 13, 2017 No Comments

Screen Shot 2017 02 01 At 10.23.34 Pm

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Understanding Cruelty in Spite of God

Perhaps it is because of the way I was raised, but I think I have always believed that God being “good” meant that with God, or because of God, bad things were not supposed to happen to people who

January 30, 2017 No Comments

Screen Shot 2017 02 01 At 10.23.34 Pm

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Understanding Cruelty in Spite of God

Perhaps it is because of the way I was raised, but I think I have always believed that God being “good” meant that with God, or because of God, bad things were not supposed to happen to people who

January 30, 2017 No Comments

Inbetween

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Living in the Spiritual “In-Between”

We in the West live in a bipolar world, or, rather, in a world which supports a bi-polar way of looking at things. Something is either “this” or “that.” It is either “right” or “wrong,” “left” or “right,” “good” or

January 9, 2017 No Comments

Inbetween

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Living in the Spiritual “In-Between”

We in the West live in a bipolar world, or, rather, in a world which supports a bi-polar way of looking at things. Something is either “this” or “that.” It is either “right” or “wrong,” “left” or “right,” “good” or

January 9, 2017 No Comments

86percent

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Fighting the Feeling of Hopelessness

In a recent program on CNN, Lisa Ling, who hosts “This is Life,” interviewed people who were addicted to drugs. Some were black, others white, but all had the same struggle. I watched bits and pieces of the program

December 26, 2016 No Comments

86percent

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Fighting the Feeling of Hopelessness

In a recent program on CNN, Lisa Ling, who hosts “This is Life,” interviewed people who were addicted to drugs. Some were black, others white, but all had the same struggle. I watched bits and pieces of the program

December 26, 2016 No Comments

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Yea, Though I Walk…

Some years ago, I heard a story about a young woman who was walking in Detroit in the wee hours of the morning, going to catch a bus to go home. She had just gotten off work. It was

December 20, 2016 No Comments