Two children dancing in the middle of a large art fair.  No prompts needed.  Sheer delight of being alive together.  May we re-dedicate our lives to finding ways of being together and sharing this dance of life. The play of grace in our lives can be a Sustaining Joy and a certain Animating Fullness.  In Sanskrit… Read More »

Bonsai in Japanese stands for “goodwill.”  This white pine is the oldest bonsai in our National Arboretum.  A tree that has been cared for with utter simplicity and purity of aesthetic ideals.  About 400 years old.  A gift of a master bonsai artist after he had experienced the bomb explosion  of Hiroshima.  Beholding this masterpiece… Read More »

  Curt is on vacation.  Blogs during this period will be simple points encouraging the spiritual journey.  Curt Find a still place.  Outwardly.  Inwardly.  Share.  Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers…” We can compose our lives in such a manner that peace flows through us in the presence of others.  Check out this book or… Read More »

In our lives as we’re in challenging  circumstances (like our C-19 times) there are many ways to be proactive in getting our lives back on track.  Also there’s the reality that sometimes even though we understand so many things about what needs to occur for some desired outcome, the resolution fails to occur.  In some… Read More »

A C-17 military transport plane is huge.  One of the first ones flying rescued Afghans out of the  country after the fall of  Kabul was jammed with refugees far in excess of  the normal load.  Every one of them was desperate.  As it  turns out these were the lucky ones who happened to get to… Read More »

Someone I know has experienced cascading allergic reactions.  Any of us can have cascading health concerns where one complex set of conditions interacts with other health related issues. This is something like what we are all living through in this moment of time.  Complexity means that our lives are intermeshed in countless ways.  One of… Read More »

The wellspring for ALL life.  Water, drink of THIS water.   Gospel of John Chapter 4: “whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  We all have the capacity to choose living waters blessing life… Read More »

As a youth I well remember kids hooky bobbing.  This was the practice of going outside right after a big snowstorm and after a few cars had driven by plowing through the snow and creating a path of impacted snow.  Kids would hook on to bumpers of the slowly moving cars with their engines racing… Read More »

  The gospel of John records the words:  6:27 … work for the food that  …  endures for eternal life … What I had assumed about eternity from all my Sunday schooling was that when we die, we gain eternal life – life in heaven with God and our loved ones that lasts forever (eternity).… Read More »

We’re all swimming in the same pond of life.  Diverse creatures birthed from and contributing to an eco-system—our shared life-womb.  This a creatively tensioned co-existence. We’re all different and we’re all alike.  Genetically we’re almost all identical twins sharing 99.9% of our genetic material. We take one look around and see nature’s gifts in diverse expressions. … Read More »