ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for December 17, 2023
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Dear Ones -
This was one of those times when “you had to be there” to experience our time in Ordinary Life this week. I began by keeping a promise I made at the Christmas party to do “something magical.” Thanks to Arlene Wells for her assistance. When the video is posted, maybe you will be able to see it. Then, thanks to Susan Peterson who loaned me the book, I read and showed some of the images from a most delightful book, “Jesus’ Christmas Party.”
“Repetition is the mother of all learning” is, I believe, an old Greek saying. The truth is that in learning the core principles of any philosophy, repetition is inevitable. We learn and appreciate at our different levels of development and at the different eras of the history and culture in which we live. We hear the same stories and truths but, hopefully, at deeper and deeper levels. This is certainly true with Jesus and stories both told about him and stories that he told. I amplified on this and on a couple of key psychological realities we need to keep ever in mind. The class ends with Howard Thurman’s “the work of Christmas” and a wish for a Merry Christmas and peace on earth.
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
I called the time -
“Tidings of Comfort and Joy”
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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