Weekly Messages
Easter 2019
Today is a day for stories. Have a listen.
Taking Inventory
A fearless inventory of how we spend our dollars and our hours... - it detaches us from habit, - it gives us time to ask: "Is this the life I want?"
Somebody Else’s Desires — Stuck in MY Head!
A whole industry goes to work every day, trying to get you and me to want stuff. Not stuff our souls need. Not stuff that takes us toward the lives we really want... Just stuff. And we suffer the consequences.
It Doesn’t Ad Up
Advertisers promise us our egos’ desires and encourage onto the rat wheel, leaving our divinely-inspired, deepest desires unrealized.
All That Glitters is Not Gold. Don’t Buy It!
Our consumerist culture has perverted our instincts toward relationships. When we approach relationships from a transactional posture, only concerned about what we’ll get, what we get is anxiety and depression.
Chasing Acorns . . . Drives Us Nuts
Endlessly chasing after stuff -- thinking it will meet a need or fill a void. Nope. It's an exercise in futility -- trying to meet higher level needs with lower level tools. Better -- chase awakening to the deep reality that we belong, we fit.
Core Workout (core stories, that is)
Desire . . . And Pay Attention
SUNDAY SLIDE DECK
What’s Found on the Other Side of Loss
After we grieve the loss of old thinking about God, our tradition invites us to a more expansive experience of God. Grieving the loss of the old ways, helps us prepare for the new ways of seeking, knowing, interacting, and relating. SUNDAY SLIDE DECK
Updates Available: God 6.0
Our Enlightenment-era, reformation God metaphors were stellar – for the Enlightenment era. But this new era begs new, expanded God metaphors, which will require our approach to God interactions to update as well. SUNDAY SLIDE DECK
When We Mistook the Mystic
In our haste to throw out the superstition bathwater 500 years ago, our mystical tradition of direct encounter with God was tossed too. Slowly, we are reclaiming this tradition and finding ways to relate to God in us. SUNDAY SLIDE DECK
Why we should nurture our hearts
By Robin Camu What does the "Heart" or heart center mean? Heart-dominant people tend to feel first, and then they think and then they know. We often believe that our feelings always tell us the truth. But we need the sum total of our feelings, thoughts and instincts...
Spiritual Puberty – The Coming of Age Talk
As we grow spiritually, our journey can become stale and rote. God Is not the problem, it is our man-made God metaphors that are in need of an update.
Pecking Orders are Real . . . Just Not Real Enough
We’re Better Together
Have a listen.
From Reacting to Responding
Our 24-hour news cycle keeps us on 24-hour alert. Break the cycle with the Welcoming Prayer.
Values Stated. Values Lived. The Difference.
The New Year prompts us to check in on our values and our actions. Are we spending our time on what we say we value? A couple things you'll need to process the lesson 1. watch THIS youtube 2. print out THIS form
12/23/18
Finding Peace … Through Nature’s Nurture
Step out in nature, and we gain a perspective that brings peace. Here's a self-care practice to carry us through this Advent season.
All Roads Lead to the Golden Rule
Study any religion and you will encounter the Golden Rule. There is no way forward from all that divides us but this. It is as simple . . . and difficult . . . as that. (special thanks to Norman Rockwell)
Stirring Up … Our Gratitude Attitude
Our brains have a negative bias. We must be intentional in stirring gratitude, or we can easily zombie through life missing everyday light and love. Stirring gratitude is a simple spiritual practice that returns to us twenty-fold.
Serving . . . Serves Us
Our independent Western instincts lead us away from connectedness. When we feel lonely, isolated and depressed, we focus on fixing ourselves. But counter-intuitively, self-focus only makes us more miserable. When we give ourselves in service to others, we heal...
Dying to Connect
Americans are lonely people. Our lack of connectedness is literally killing us. The physical effects of loneliness include depression, anxiety, cardio vascular stress and suppressed immune systems. As technological and cultural trends move us further away from true...
The Connection Connection
Our well-being is connected -- to our connection -- to others. And -- our most powerful connections, are with those we think of as "the other.” When "they" become "us," a deep source of our fear and anxiety is eliminated.