Bill's Blog - Monthly Summary

Hello! Here's a summary of my posts from the past month. I'm glad you're with me on the journey. My goal for this journey through life is to "wake up, remember and come alive," and help others do the same. So to that end, take what's helpful here and leave the rest! (Looking forward to reading some of your post comments as well.)

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Seeing with the Heart

Seeing with the Heart. “What is essential is invisible to the eye. Only with the heart can one see rightly.” Antoine de Saint Exupery A Prayer: Change me O God to get in touch with my heart, to know my heart and to see in with and through my heart.

How to Know What God is Like

Simple Sunday Sermons: How to Know What God is Like (John 14:8-14)

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Chocolate Chip Cookies, Birch Trees and a Blue Sky

Chocolate Chip Cookies, Birch Trees and a Blue Sky. All of these have something to teach me about finding purpose in purposelessness, meaning in meaninglessness and enjoyment in the simple things of life while living in the present moment. I recently heard Dr. BJ Miller of the Zen Hospice project in San Francisco talking about the dying people that he works …

Wild Geese

Wild Geese (by Mary Oliver) You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes …

Do You Yearn, George?

Do You Yearn, George? (Psalm 42:1-2)

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The Game of Religion

The Game of Religion. A man arriving at the proverbial Pearly Gates is unsure what to do. Do I simply walk in? he wonders. St. Peter recognizes the look of consternation on the man’s face, approaches, and asks him if he might need some guidance. “I’m not sure what I am supposed to do,” the man begins. “Do I simply …

Just Laugh, Walter!

Just laugh? Why? Because, laughter is the best medicine. Or as Prov. 17:33 says, "A Cheerful heart is good medicine." This scene from the "Money Pit" never fails to make me laugh. Please watch it til the very end. Do you "feel" Walter? Can you identify? When you're about to lose it, when you're at the end of your rope, when …

Laughter

Laughter (by Hafiz) What is laughter? What is laughter? It is God waking up! O it is God waking up! It is the sun poking its sweet head out From behind a cloud You have been carrying too long, Veiling your eyes and heart. It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure That is your Real body – called …

The Best Medicine for Life

The Best Medicine for Life (Proverbs 17:22)

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Dr. Emoto's Water Experiment

Dr. Emoto's Water Experiment If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what thoughts can do to us? "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things." Philippians 4:8 "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but …

Chain Letter of the Soul

Chain Letter of the Soul. I had the wonderful experience this past Sunday of attending my first "Friends Meeting," - a Quaker worship service in Mpls. It was a semi programmed meeting with an opening and closing hymn and a brief meditation by a member of the congregation with the rest of the service spent in silence. I was moved …

Life's Greatest "Perspective Giver"

Life's Greatest Perspective Giver (Psalm 90:12)

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