Here now are the realms of wonder. Yet I forget, I fall out of presence. I fall back Back into myself, back into the broken world system, back into the dysfunctions of my mind Dysfunctions of my understanding about what is true. Eating again of the wrong tree, That tempting fruit of the tree of … More Walking in the Realms of Wonder
We each make a choice of how we pilot the vehicles of our life. Although many shades of gray between the ways exist in this post we will consider navigating the skies above! I have defined two predominant paths of walking-through life in the previous post on “The Architecture of Life” (1). If one … More An Architecture for Peace II
I, me, my, mine; it’s not about me? Really? Who’s it about then? You, them, us, everyone else; all the time? “There’s nothing new under the sun” said some wise guy a long time ago. Nothing happens to you that has not or might not happen to me or others. That’s just the way it … More It’s not about me, really?
The following Poem was written when I was 18 years old in 1980. I jotted it down the first six lines in my journal three weeks before my mother Barbara Jean (Bleacher) Parry was killed as a passenger in a single car accident. She had come for a visit it was to be our … More Our life is a war
From a Journal Entry March 8th 2024- Woodson Bridge. Friday, Shabatt Shalom! Its coming, its here now: a real- hard fought peace-the new way of being! Scripture reminds us that whatsoever befalls us is common to man. (1st Cor. 10:13). So it is and so it will be for so it has been time out … More Simply Being- It’s time!
Its Darkest before the dawn. On the Hebrew’s way it is so. The new day begins at dusk, the setting of the previous light. It’s darkest before the dawn. The breaking forth comes through the conclusion of the night. It’s darkest before the dawn. Morning comes at the passing of the night, not at the … More It’s darkest before the dawn.
. Giving up the reins, That his glory might reign. Let your glory reign, rain on me, rain on me! May your glory be … More Giving up the Reins
We each make a choice of how we walk through our lives. Although many shades of gray between each exist I see two predominant paths. We run on our own steam, driving by discipline strength of character, the most recent seven strategies for success, defining our personal philosophy about how things actually work and what … More An Architecture for Peace
Understanding at last? . Understanding the mystery of it all! . To believe I can truly understand what’s outside me, Is I see quite simply- Tomfoolery. Understanding, I perceive is beyond me. Just now I see, it’s about you not me. . Understanding at last? . May the world perceive, It’s about you, not me; … More Understanding
Glory too the Fire of Judgment. It burns the fire of judgment, it burns. It burns away the bonds and chains; it burns. It burns the fire of judgment, it burns away the dross and pain. Refiners fire, glory come, burn away, burn away. Oh glory, glory to the fire of Judgment, sent out from … More The Refiners Fire!
In spiritual communities ones choice is generally between small, deep and healthy or big, shallow and compromising . How leaders maintain unity without real intimacy or a sincere ability to rest into the required interdependence of true community is the challenge. Walking in real community requires trust in the Spirit to actually be leading … More Leaving behind the Nicolaitans
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