I think we should begin with a bit of Rumi. This is like stretching out briefly before we tear ass across a back yard still slick with a morning dew. It’s a best practice, and it just might prevent us from ripping ligaments or pulling hamstrings in the recklessness that follows. It’s a safe beginning. Sort of. “We tremble, thinking we’re about to dissolve into non-existence, but non-existence fears even more that it might be […]
In the Creation, God is a tea plant. She is a tea plant and also the soil in which the tea plant grows, and the air in which the tea plant breathes, and the rains in which the tea plant drinks, and the Light in which the tea plant Knows. We were a leaf on God’s tea plant, and the Life of the tea plant lived in us and through us. It was beautiful and […]
Jesus dwells in Heaven these days. My guess is that you are aware of that. You may even have an idea of what that means. You may have a concept of Heaven. I do. From the outside, it looks like a pretty lovely place. Standing where I do, looking towards its shimmering reaches, it looks like it’s always running smoothly, like it never skips a beat. It glows unceasingly and when I walk near unto […]
A Course of Love states in a number of places that the world we have made is a distorted image of Creation, something close but not quite, an array of symbols that hearken to what we know is True while simultaneously and sadly lacking some critical ingredient. The Truth is echoed in this world we’ve made, but we’ve gotten something important twisted up. Inside out and upside down. We wanted to make something beautiful, and […]
Embracing Forever 