ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for August 13, 2023
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Dear Ones -
Registration for the day with Suzanne Stabile is now open. To register click here.
The experience is being called:
The Path Between Us:
The Enneagram and Relationships
She will be with us from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 30. She will also return for the Ordinary Life hour that Sunday.
If you are unfamiliar with the Enneagram, it is a personality typing system that is used by most spiritual directors to aid in spiritual growth and understanding of one’s Self.
I have asked Brooke Summers-Perry to come and use the Ordinary Life hour on Sunday, September 10 and do a good introduction to the Enneagram. You will want to be sure to attend this time. There is, of course, no charge for this time.
I called the time in Ordinary Life this week -
“You Are My Sunshine”
Three pieces came together this week to help me offer my current interpretation of the phrase “our Father” which is found in the version of the Lord’s Prayer most people are familiar with. The pieces were two songs - “You Are My Sunshine” and “Comin’ In On a Wing and a Prayer” - and the advice of Augustine to “pray as if everything depended on God and live as if everything depended on you.” The Lord’s Prayer was created in a time and served a purpose that we can know about only academically. But, properly understood and used it can serve us in providing identity, memory, and meaning. Though we do not have the understanding of God that their world-view allowed them to have, we can have an understanding of God that is as intimate as theirs.
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
The audio version of the talk has some significant 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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