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Bill's Blog - Monthly Summary
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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.) |
Who You Are Not. We are not our stories Our thoughts Our personalities Our psychology Our judgements Our condemnation Our past Our future Our present Our wrongs Our sins Our pain Our mistakes Our bodies Our our appearance Our face Our illness Our disease We are not what others say of us or think of us Our job Our relationships …
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Missing Love. This is an "oldie but a goodie" and one of my favorite songs. I love the melody, the voice, the music, the feel of it. It summarizes a part of my journey and is also an invitation to return to love. The whole spiritual journey can be summarized as a journey from fear to love. Learning how to …
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God Has Memory Issues. There was a Catholic priest who was a much-loved man of God who carried a secret burden of a sinful past hidden deep in his heart. He had committed a grievous sin during his days in seminary. He had since repented and suffered years of remorse for the transgression, but he still had no peace, no …
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Half Life (by Stephen Levine) We walk through half our life as if it were a fever dream barely touching the ground our eyes half open our heart half closed. Not half knowing who we are we watch the ghost of us drift from room to room through friends and lovers never quite as real as advertised. Not saying half …
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Ruin and Hope. "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." Rumi I'm so struck by this quote. It's about resiliency. I have often felt ruined. Ruined by what's happening in my world. Ruined by my thoughts, my feelings, my sadness, my struggles, my anger, my fear. Ruined by things that have happened to me and haven't happened to …
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It's Good to be Dull. I watched this video recently and smiled, laughed and chuckled all the way through. So, I think it's worthy of making my website as a spiritual reminder. Always note when you laugh and smile - something good in the spirit is going on and you're gaining a much needed perspective. There on to something, and …
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A Prayer of One Who Is In Constant Physical Pain (by Joyce Rupp) God of oneness, wholeness, I hurt and am in pain and I dream of a day when I no longer feel continual distress in my body. I cry out to you to hear me, to stretch your arms of compassion to me and to embrace me with …
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Pete the Duck. One morning there was a duck named Pete on the side of a path quacking. A professional singer walked by. Upon hearing him she said, "How nice of you to sing me a morning song, Pete." A few minutes later an overweight woman walked by. She said, "You're always quacking for more food, Pete. It's time you …
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From Blossoms (by Li-Young Lee) From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches. From laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the bins, comes nectar at the roadside, succulent peaches we devour, dusty skin and all, comes the familiar dust …
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To be Relieved of God. It's not about being relieved of the true God, but of the false God. The God we make up in our minds. It's about overcoming our distorted and false images of God. For we have made God in our own image. God is angry, cranky, vindictive, ornery, aloof, disgusted, disapproving, critical, judgmental and unloving just …
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The Summer Day (by Mary Oliver) Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who …
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The Struggling Butterfly (Attributed to Henry Miller) One day in India, a young boy walked up to a Guru or wise man, and asked what the man was looking at. The Guru responded “I am looking at a Chrysalis, and inside is a butterfly. Soon the Chrysalis will split and the butterfly will emerge.” The boy asked, “Can I have …
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