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Lake Chalice: 2012-11

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The Chalice near Lake Alice" in Gainesville, Florida. Where people of different beliefs worship together as one faith. Committed to lifelong spiritual growth and compassionate service to each other, our community, and the earth. Dancing Crane Zen Center. Some Unitarian Universalists hit a little mental snag on the word “spiritual.” I grew up with that snag. "Spiritual? What does that mean? Look to you to give them their food at the proper time. When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you op...

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Lake Chalice: 2012-12

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The Chalice near Lake Alice" in Gainesville, Florida. Where people of different beliefs worship together as one faith. Committed to lifelong spiritual growth and compassionate service to each other, our community, and the earth. Dancing Crane Zen Center. The Word Made Flesh. The word made flesh.". It's a nice phrase. Poetic. Evocative of Plato's Republic. The word made flesh.". The word made flesh.". The flaming chalice in the center is the symbol of UU. Humanism, Naturalism, Judaism, and Buddhism. Does ...

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Poems: So What If?

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Finally upon the edge. Mud on my shoes. I have reached the moment I was made for. It was no easy thing to get here. Across the gravel of yesterdays. So what if I've never been anywhere else? White Plains, NY, 2014.02.26. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 160;since birth in 1959; . A former assistant professor of philosophy;. Proud Dad of Morgen, John, and Yency (all adults now);. Since 2000, blissfully wed to  Rev. LoraKim Joyner. Now a UU  community minister. Since 2001, a Zen practitioner and student;.

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Poems: Philosophy Class

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Standing before me after class. Says his thoughts go off in wild directions. When he tries to explain his way through one of my questions. He hasn't the skill - and half-doubts the possibility of it - to tie. Much of a knot. Or to weave the colored strands into coherence. In his eyes I see the facade of frustration about this. Under that: wonderment,. And the birthing of a brand new baby hope. We old professors who have midwifed a thousand such. Gainesville, 2009.03.31. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Poems: Ometepe

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Hey, you, on the island of Ometepe, among the twin explosive breasts of conceiving and wood. The latter petrified),. You, among the tourists farmers plaintains parrots. Counting any of the last whose napes are yellow). You, the weird, wired Amazon princess,. You, with the out-of-season breeding season, standing in the feeding area where divergent cycles coalesce,. Conversing with the devil. Swimming to get dry. I cannot open my mouth to preach a single word. How can the rain reach land? I am missing you.

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Lake Chalice: Sermon Index

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The Chalice near Lake Alice" in Gainesville, Florida. Where people of different beliefs worship together as one faith. Committed to lifelong spiritual growth and compassionate service to each other, our community, and the earth. Dancing Crane Zen Center. Lake Chalice Blog Entries Adapted from Sermons. The original sermons can be heard on audio podcast through iTunes, "Sermons in Liberal Religion": click here. 2006 Oct 10: " Humanism, By Gump. 2007 Feb 18: " The Myth of Scarcity. 2008 Apr 13: " Happy.

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Lake Chalice: 2014-10

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The Chalice near Lake Alice" in Gainesville, Florida. Where people of different beliefs worship together as one faith. Committed to lifelong spiritual growth and compassionate service to each other, our community, and the earth. Dancing Crane Zen Center. Apparently, according to Gabriele Rico, the Eskimos, or Inuit, have a pretty good way of dealing with anger. Rico writes:. 1991, p. 210). Don’t you know that my sense of worth as a human being. What a great way to deal with anger. 1967, vol 5, p. 419).

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Lake Chalice: 2013-03

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The Chalice near Lake Alice" in Gainesville, Florida. Where people of different beliefs worship together as one faith. Committed to lifelong spiritual growth and compassionate service to each other, our community, and the earth. Dancing Crane Zen Center. Flowers and Birds are the Smart Ones. 8220;Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin.”. Consider the lilies.in the field. Well, the birds then. Well, have they got jobs? What's the matter with them? He says the birds are scrounging.

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Lake Chalice: 2013-05

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The Chalice near Lake Alice" in Gainesville, Florida. Where people of different beliefs worship together as one faith. Committed to lifelong spiritual growth and compassionate service to each other, our community, and the earth. Dancing Crane Zen Center. Sounds pretty angry – wrathful. 8220;Listen to this, you who devour the needy, annihilating the poor of the land.” (Amos 8:4). Amos describes in detail the suffering of the economically and legally exploited masses, and the luxury of the wealthy and comf...