Powerlessness is Our Super-Power There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. — M Scott Peck Our hearts, comrades, like faith, get forged in the fire of powerlessness, and strengthened in the deep well vulnerability. This is a […]
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Messed up badly, broken again Sometimes we live, sometimes we die, sometimes we cry. — Van Morrison. I come from a long line of hot-blooded Irish men with extremely short fuses. Both my father and his father before him were fine and decent good-hearted men, but boy could they blow! Tsunamis of rage could erupt
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Wounded Places, Beautiful Spaces I can’t say exactly when on my spiritual journey that the notion that the heart is the epicenter of the spiritual life settled on me. But it has been a game-changer. Helen Keller said: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be
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The long tale of the Great-Spirit At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. — Black Elk. The telling of stories about the Creator or Great-Spirit may be as old as humanity itself. I recently became curious about this ancient and
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