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The Layers of a Story
Good stories almost always have layers of meaning written into them, even the ones that happened before our very eyes before anyone ever retold much less wrote them down. My grandfather and a good friend of his were avid vegetable … Continue reading
Our Unfolding Stories
Suffering is part of the human experience. Every religious and spiritual tradition that I know of not only acknowledges that but in one way or another engages that reality. With some distance between us and that suffering, we almost always … Continue reading
To Tell A Story
Characters. Action. Movement. Trouble. Surprise. Change. I taught a “foreign language” for 32 years to teenagers. The language was the ancient “dead” language of Latin. For the latter half of my career, our Latin program became very popular and one … Continue reading
Shades of Story
Happy New Year! And welcome to not only the new year and a new month, but a new theme for us to explore together. Our theme for January is “Living Love Through The Practice of Story.” At first glance, I … Continue reading
Sacred Presence–Who We Are
What is your relationship to Jesus these days? It’s a question that comes up, surprisingly NOT at the door from someone wishing to proselytize me into their religion, but from Unitarian Universalist friends. Christian and Christianity are words that belong … Continue reading
Every One–Sacred Presence
It’s happened to me, again, twice this year. The first time it happened was in 1987. After a very long day of trying to induce childbirth, Lydia ended up in a surgical unit having a C-section to bring our first … Continue reading