THE IN-BETWEEN TIMES There are lines that I love from an old song, ‘All The Way’, by Frank Sinatra. One phrase especially pops into my awareness: “Through the good or lean years, and for all the in-between years…” Other phrases are also important to me. They also come: “Who knows
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What words do you associate with “Endings”? Pause for a moment and see what drops in. For me, sometimes words like grief, or confusion, sadness, disappointment and even anger, chaos or fear have been there. Sometimes they were associated with endings that I did not want. Other times, I did…and
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October 31, 2015 7:10am There are so many meanings and moments in time when I think about the ‘trimesters’ of my life. They span the spectrum from ‘unknown meaning’ to childbirth and meanings that take me into the Vastness of the Beyond. The ‘creation story’ of my childhood became the
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In the last year of my seminary training, one of the ‘benchmarks’ was giving our Chapel Talk. It was about bringing together everything we had learned in a new creative, passionate form. Having completed the ‘Defense of Dissertation’ in my doctoral program at U Mass, I saw some equivalency in
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On Tuesday morning, I was aware that the first debate of the Democratic candidates for the United States presidential campaign was going to be Live on CNN. Part of my heart connected with past moments in time. I spoke to John Robinson, one of our Core Team, from the very
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After my father died when I was 11 years old, my mother had a really hard time ‘finding her way’. She bought a small travel trailer, 1950 style, hitched it to the back of our Buick, and we set out…toward an unknown destination. My younger brother and I were the ‘map readers’
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Written & Spoken by Dr Marj Britt: I thought I had the schedule ‘planned’ clear through the end of the year for my blog posts… I had even sent it to our wonderful team, they had ‘put it up’ on the calendar. It looked like ‘it was written in stone’… Have
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Reading these words, Living a Life of Ceaseless Discovery from A. H. Almaas, I feel their Vibration in the very core of my being. A gentle smile of recognition comes as I realize, “This Vibration is ‘working’ me…not the other way around.” There is a deep breath and a sigh…
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We sit in various classrooms in our lives, some of them even look like classrooms. Others look like ordinary ‘other kinds of places’. We hear voices in those settings. Sometimes we recognize, even honor and delight in the voices we hear. Other times we don’t. Occasionally, we call them ‘teachers’.
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How does one describe a moment in time that descends into your life? It seemed simple and even ordinary at first, and then it wasn’t… Do I talk about sitting in a classroom that I had not expected to be in? Do I write about feeling lost in the world?
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