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Here are three quotes from the book, “Life Together” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The first is an excerpt from the other two. I want to discuss this idea of “no immediate access to one another”. That Bonhoeffer presented. I have enormous respect and veneration for Bonhoeffer. Mostly because his writings have confirmed for me, indeed putContinue reading “Bonhoeffer”

Do I know you? Who does? Let’s suppose we’ve met, you and I. And my contention is that I know you. “You don’t know me.” “You thought you knew me.” But what about those songs that make the claim… “I know you” or to be more emphatic, “I know you better than you know yourself”Continue reading “Questions”

Smiling feathers flew past me on a blissful day as I lay on fluffy green sheets of grass Oh, my thoughts are neither near nor far and there is only perfect peace As the smiling feathers fall all around from Keleki’s Womb!

I wish I could have snapped a photo, it’s just that I was driving at 80 km at the time, on a busy Hwy 99… right in the middle of the fast lane of Hwy 99 was an upside down fruit/vegetable cardboard box… and it looked worried😆 The “handle hole” like a wide open mouth-frown,Continue reading “Perplexed Box”

As I pondered a certain thought, I saw them there in the casket, Those clothes Arms folded on the chest, shoulders bunched a little bit close to each other, Buttoned up, empty, and clean, yet nonetheless bore the marks of having been worn before As I peered in at them, I leaned in to putContinue reading “The Clothing In The Casket”

“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,” Hebrews 10:24 There’s a difference between “spur one another on” and minding each other’s business David Guzik: Forsaking the assembling of ourselves together: Forsaking fellowship is a sure way to give place to discouragement. This festers where God’s peopleContinue reading “Spurring One Another On”

This what I want to say this morning… But as I wrote, I kept getting interrupted with Scripture! So wonderful! I know God is speaking to me, when he backs up what he is saying through his well established written word, being brought to my mind. Today’s message came to me as I was meditatingContinue reading “Dreaming Myself To Death”

Brutally aware of what codependency is all about, I need to contend with what the following two quotes DO NOT mean, so that those who would benefit from them won’t go astray. The counterfeit and the true currency are nearly identical. One is worth the whole, the other wholly worthless. A river doesn’t need water,Continue reading “On Codependency”

Expectations: 1) To know him 2) To take hold of THAT – “that” is that which he took a hold of me for I have the “gift or curse” of musing disconnected from my cognitive ability to understand and to be deeply impacted by the overall ministry of the Holy Spirit. John 2:1-5 The miracleContinue reading “Jesus’ Choices”