Mmake turtleboxes.

That's IT. That's what I am supposed to be doing right now.

Not running after new clients, proving I am worth hiring.

Not looking for a…

New Blog Post (and a short one this time):

"Occupy"

Several of us at my Meeting would like us to pass a minute in support of the Occupy movement... and our Clerk thought when we next meet for business... "Would you write it?"

I could see right away there will be difficulties. The Meeting is dominated by academic types of the Phd persuasion, and as John Ralston Saul pointed out in Voltaire's Bastards, specialization and a comfortable life are not unmitigated blessings. Many of us…

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Together on the Jesus Way: Taking Up the Cross

Mark 8:31-38

I find my old accustomed place among

My brethren, here, perchance, no human tongue

Shall utter words; where never hymn is sung,

Nor deep-toned organ blown, nor censer swung

Nor dim light falling through the pictured pane!

There, syllabled by silence, let me hear

The still small voice which reached the prophets ear;

Read in my heart a still diviner law

Than Israel's leader on his tables saw!

here let…

The journey of the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt to new life in the land of promise is a journey that will take 40 years - a symbolic number again, a number that seems to embody the sense of completeness, fullness. This exodus journey, which in some ways, has come to represent spiritual journeying generally will not be a journey planned out in any kind of detail. It will be rooted in faith and trust in the God Moses looks to.

Exod 13 – The journey will be celebrated and…

Listen!

On November 29th, I spent the night at the Interfaith tent at Occupy Philly.  What I've produced is highly personal, honest and unique.  This is my impression of Occupy Philly based on…

http://salonforthesoul.blogspot.com/2011/11/hand-in-hand-with-jesus.html

Last night, in the spiritual-nurture group I facilitate, we talked about early, childhood experiences of the Divine.…

Together on the Jesus Way: Do You Not Yet Understand?

Mark 5, 7, 8 

I feel like I'm coming out of the closet again.  It's actually striking how similar this is to when I started admitting I was gay.  Here and there I would talk about "if" i were gay, or how maybe I'm bisexual.  I would hook up with someone and then rant against homosexuality in Friends Journal or in meeting.  Then I came out, blew the doors off the wall and no Quaker meeting in Greensboro was prepared. Though off topic, I think Friends meetings should very much consider how to be there for…

I awoke with a new prayer on my lips and in my heart yesterday:

Please, use my brokenness.

Certainly, I have prayed for healing and for God to use me, but never to use my brokenness. Before the words formed, there was an image of a mosaic, specifically the…