Saturday Mornings

All this is to say, if your present community sees your spiritual journey as a problem because you are wandering off their beach blanket, ...

I've noticed ...that, as a 9 on the Enneagram , I have a constant low-grade scanner that is monitoring both threat and opportunity.  As ...

Too much of Christianity is built upon absolute certainty and not enough on divine mystery. -- Mark Wingfield The source of our dis...

The US moved down because of recent tax cuts.  But, the budget deficit rose 26%, too!

Why is it that we can often so much more easily see the  beauty  and  courage  in someone else, than we can ourselves? What If ...this is ...

What we see is what we know. But, there comes a time when we know things that we can't see.

' Poem for the week' -- "Christmas": The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-o...

Visual - "Just Another Tree ?": ...perhaps not:   Celebrating an Eternal Advent

Ever noticed ...that there is a spiritual quality in vastness ?  The ocean, mountains , the skies...all intimate something beyond our grasp ...

Fear suffocates the good news that God's grace is expansive .  Fear cannot tolerate that someone else's story is different than ...

Leading social indicators are trending their way, but somehow it is only Trump who stands between us and the apocalypse. We are facing ...

From Michiana Chronicles : To our west, behind the white spot-lighted spire of the wide brick school building, an even wider sunset had ...

Instagram:  bobgoff What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace.  Our pain is never wasted. -- Bob  Goff I recently received ...

Ideas catalyze action. Encounter catalyzes ideas.

A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own. -- Simon Sinek It seems so obvi...

I'm wondering ...if what makes Truth true , at least to us,   is when it is encountered . Though part of it, encounter is more than t...

The only clear line I draw these days is this:  when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor...Jesus...

How to be less cynical and more honest about the subversive  truth  that lurks just below the surface of pretty much everything. -- Ro...

“I know it’s bad – but everyone’s doing it” The optimists who got excited about the ‘everyone has a microphone’ promise of the Net 20 year...

The free market consumer ideology has produced a social disorder; people are no longer embedded in a culture that serves the common wealth ...

Narrative is a big part of the structure of our lives; of my life, too.  It is comprised of the stories we tell ourselves; the version of th...

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. -- Colin Powell

I've noticed ...that few things open up and encourage relationship quite like vulnerability . And, few things close or hinder it quit...

Advent  creates people, new people. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Does it?  If so, why? How? I think this is true—we are changed thru a po...

' Poem  for the week' -- "When Giving Is All We Have":                                               One river gives  ...

Instagram:  bobgoff Embrace uncertainty . Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later. ...

Sometimes you get stretched. But, most of the time, it has to be your choice   (willingness) to stretch yourself. Unfortunately, too oft...

The question you ask will determine the knowledge you acquire. -- Joel Sutton

I've noticed ...the more aware I am of need, the less I hesitate to pray .

Sin always proceeds from lack of consciousness . -- Richard Rohr

From Michiana Chronicles : A memory of American idealism. A memory of Congress on its best days. Maybe those days feel like long ago. Ma...

Visual - "Whites": Estes Park, CO More pics here ....

' Poem  for the week' -- "The Thanksgivings": Translated from a traditional Iroquois prayer We who are here present th...

Everything one presumes as empty is really overflowing with fullness . -- Elizabeth Jacobson A day to recognize this and what, deep dow...

People don't  fear  change . People fear sudden  change . People fear revolutions. People don't  fear   evolutions. -- Simon Sine...

Ever noticed ...the connection between gratitude and joy ?

At this time of year, I want to feel grateful. But, today I don’t.  As I reflected on this, feeling even a little bad about it, I realized...

I saw this recently: It struck me as a timely reminder of things I want to be about: experiencing generosity (both in giving and re...

You have to decide that love can outweigh fear. -- Kate Bowler As is the case most weeks, I'm guessing you can see again the conne...

When we try to find personal and individual freedom while remaining inside structural boxes and a system of consumption , we are often unabl...

Indiana is the latest battleground in the Red for Ed Revolution. I’ve been covering this movement on my various platforms for the last few...

I'm wondering ...if what is  true  always exists, when do I notice it?  Why do I  notice  it?

' Poem for the week' -- "Peace Prayer": Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow l...

The Bible is not a manual.  The Bible is not a manual. I should just end right there—hoping that the point will be clearer, only as it sin...

Another delightful edition of  Michiana Chronicles : One day late last autumn , I strode in the house, flung off my coat and hollered, ...

You are loved exactly as you are . -- Rob Bell Oneness is less a goal toward which life is pressing, as it is a return to the truth ...

The further I go, the more it seems apparent that the issue of the goodness of our existence is not predicated primarily on our ability to ...

To hold onto nothing is the root of happiness and peace. -- Angeles Arrien It is interesting to me how often peace and happiness, thoug...

Ever noticed ...that sometimes people try to disguise avoidance by claiming something else—like they are just really busy   all the time  or...

We must abandon this absurd idea that Christianity is a Western religion . -- Kanato Chophi Continue here ....

Abnormal Are you hesitant about this new idea because it’s a risky, problematic, defective idea… or because it’s simply different than ...

Visual - "Awe-ful Color" (unedited): Winona Lake, IN

Therapy is not about becoming new, but is about unbecoming all the things that you thought you had to be to be loved . -- Hillary McBrid...

Whether we recognize it or not, are we not all aware, even if only subconsciously, that we are highly dependent on others to care for us?  T...

Whoever you are, you are human .   Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness of it. ...

I've noticed ...there is a fine line between being able to operate from our instincts and operating only from our instincts.

People often asked Dr. Jung, “Will we make it?” referring to the cataclysm of our time. He always replied, “If enough people will do their i...

We all want to raise smart, successful kids, so it's tempting to play Mozart for our babies and run math drills for kindergartners. Af...

' Poem for the week' -- "A Circle": A Circle expands forever It covers all who wish to hold hands And its size depend...