ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for December 3, 2023
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Dear Ones -
One overall goal for all wise and useful religious instruction is that we move from mindless practices to “mindful mysticism.” David Foster Wallace, the post-modern novelist, told the story of an older fish swimming by two young fish. As he did so, the older fish asked, “So, how’s the water?” After he was gone, one of the young fish turned to the other and said, “What the hell is water?”
This week’s talk in Ordinary Life is about how we must become aware of and take responsibility for the water in which we swim. The questions of faith, for any faith, are: who am I? who are you? and, how are we to live?
I end this talk by telling the story of my encounter with a woman who had the nativity scene tattooed on her chest.
The title I gave the time was -
We Need To Change the Water. What Water?
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
As usual, the audio version of the talk has some differences from the text I spoke from. You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and the audio version of the talk using the links below.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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