REsources for Living
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What do you most wish that you could get for your birthday? An iPad? A horse? A motorcycle? World peace? A group of people got together and imagined what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have most liked for his birthday, January 15th. Read more →
Birdfoot’s Grampa
The old manYou Are the Light of the World
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“Make of yourself a light,” said the Buddha upon his death. Like Jesus, he knew that he was light, and people were drawn to him. And they both knew, I think, that that was beside the point. Read more →
Hope: The Theology of Despair
Hope and Sorrow
From Your Minister
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According to Joshua Friedman, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, “All the visible world that we see around us is just the tip of the iceberg.”
An article in Science News Magazine says that 70% of the universe is “a mysterious entity known as dark energy that pervades all of space, pushing it apart at an ever-faster rate.” Read more →
REsources for Living
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Have you seen the musical Into the Woods? It’s a Broadway show in which a variety of storybook characters—Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of the Beanstalk), etc.—meet up together in an adventure in the woods, which ends with the kind of happily-ever-after weddings and wealth and long-awaited babies that you expect from the end of a fairy tale.
Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter
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The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold,
When shoeing home across the white,
I thought I saw a bird alight. Read more →
The Deep Thanksgiving of Our Souls
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I have wonderful neighbors who delight in garish inflatable yard decorations. We love these neighbors, but would question their taste if they did not question it for us.
One day, as we walked past their front yard and saw them plugging in the rotating Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and Piglet inflatable Christmas globe, they turned to us, grinned, and said, “That’s right—we’re THOSE kind of neighbors.” They also told us that they might have held off on the Christmas decorations if they’d only been able to find anything for Thanksgiving.
To Be Joyfully Determined
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Recall a time when things weren’t going well for you, when you didn’t feel quite right, didn’t feel quite like yourself; a time when you couldn’t hear the still, small voice, or when its song was faint; a time when there was some emotional or mental dissonance in your life; a time when you felt disconnected, depressed, anxious, weak, subdued, out-of-whack, broken; a time when your sense of purpose and meaning waned, and you sought help.
