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Peregrinatio: Restoring Wonder
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No peregrinati journey should ever be undertaken begrudgingly but instead with love and thankfulness saying 'I thank You my God. I am a traveller and stranger in the world like so many of Your people before me.' - St. Columba. Thursday, April 26, 2012. God made for every place and moment to be such as these, my greatest lesson learned from the Benedictines. All is infused with the Creator's Presence and Holiness. And yet we always hold out for something more. What are we waiting for? The Price of Freedom.
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A Minister's Musings: Riots or Uprisings ...
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We are one human family, on one fragile planet, in one miraculous universe, bound by love.". Monday, May 04, 2015. Riots or Uprisings . In 1784 Thomas Jefferson published his Notes on the Sate of Virginia. He then answers himself with these words:. Take a moment to read that again. Isn't this what we're seeing in Baltimore, and Seattle, and Chicago, and Ferguson? If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way, that's not progress....
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A Minister's Musings: November 2014
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We are one human family, on one fragile planet, in one miraculous universe, bound by love.". Friday, November 21, 2014. The other night I had a dream. Someone asks, "Since you're a Unitarian Universalist, explain why Communion is so important.". I continue bussing the tables, and I say:. As I understand it, Communion isn't some kind of magical act. In and of itself it isn't. Really all that big a deal. Communion is a commemoration, more than anything else, and that's what makes it important. This past Su...
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A Minister's Musings: We Never Know
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We are one human family, on one fragile planet, in one miraculous universe, bound by love.". Monday, May 11, 2015. She said with a genuine sense of happy contentment. "I'm fine. Not what I was expecting, and a great reminder that you never know. So along with the joy, and in some cases disbelief, that these couples feel at the reality that they can now get "officially" married may well be the pain that they have to. Now get officially married. And by this I don't mean that they feel compelled to get ...
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A Minister's Musings: Waiting
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We are one human family, on one fragile planet, in one miraculous universe, bound by love.". Tuesday, April 21, 2015. When I was a kid one of the highlights of the year was the night they would show both. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas." I would wait for it all year, and as Christmas loomed near, I looked forward to that night with almost as much anticipation as I did Santa himself. To get back home or I'd miss "The Grinch .". I'll admit, I've gotten pretty used to it myse...
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A Minister's Musings: October 2014
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We are one human family, on one fragile planet, in one miraculous universe, bound by love.". Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Ideas on Identity, part 1. Last night at the congregation I serve - the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church - Unitarian Universalist. There was a discussion as part of our Adult Faith Development. Program titled, "What's the 'T' in 'LGBT' and what does it have to do with our bathrooms? Several months ago we posted signs on our bathrooms. Let's stop there for a moment. The dominant cult...
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A Minister's Musings: December 2014
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We are one human family, on one fragile planet, in one miraculous universe, bound by love.". Thursday, December 25, 2014. It’s been a while since I last offered a Christmas Eve homily. I’ve always figured that the texts and the tunes will deliver their own message if I get out of the way. But this year I feel compelled to reflect on what might seem to be at best an odd juxtaposition and at worst a contradictory paradox. But that’s not what’s in the air these days, is it? Michael Brown in Ferguson;. We co...
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For the Homies
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Monday, July 10, 2006. I am revived by the stirring of many aphids marching across. The face of a lone leaf. They tentatively move along the side. Like lovers passing by deserted bedrooms. This is my course. The path i was never meant to discover. In which my heart held its collection of immense fears. By the minute, by the hour. Grazing away at each person's life. I am you, also. I am that strange seed. That beckoning darkness floating among uprooted. Flowers in a lake. The insects arrange themselves in.
