Gather 'round…
"We cannot live without being affected by others, but we are only real when we let truth and love shape us from within. Our want to be liked, our want to avoid conflict, our want to be understood--all these traits tease us away from taking the voice within seriously. Though the Earth is touched by... Continue Reading →
“Let your soul receive this rest: The God who sends thunder and lightning seeks to obliterate every system that threatens the dignity and shalom of the cosmos. Accept what mercy is available after what we’ve made of this precious, sacred world–what we’ve made of one another. In all our greed, our deceit, our apathy, our... Continue Reading →
"May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny buy useful. May I stay forever in the stream."~ Mary Oliver, Upstream Grandiose ideas.Dreams of fame.Mixed motivations outing the carefully concealed conflicts of our humanity. There just may be some space in every human soul for delusions of grandeur, for jumps and... Continue Reading →
I’ve been thinking a lot about conflict recently. This is, we all know, a pretty timely topic on, well, every scale. I kinda doubt I'm the only one staring down this steely barrel. We all have our own unique ways of dealing with, or responding, to the inevitable head-butts of life. I am even given... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Nexus 