ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for January 21, 2024
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Dear Ones -
Please register for the Rise Against Hunger program that will take place next Sunday at St. Paul’s. Click here to do that.
If you do register and spend the time we would usually spend attending Ordinary Life, not only can you participate in making the 55,000 meals we hope to package but also you will be registered for the lunch at noon. Next Sunday is a full day at St. Paul’s. There is the Rise Against Hunger Program and it is St. Paul’s 118th anniversary. There will be a Choral Evensong at 4 p.m. that day. We are hoping to have two hundred volunteers to register for this effort.
This week the title I gave to what I offered was -
Splash!
Though we are going to give serious attention and concern to both our chaotic culture and our “shadow selves,” we will be guided in our wading into and in the Sacred Stream by the Jesus narrative. One reason for this is that our culture is affected by both spiritual and religious illiteracy. The 1985 movie “Splash!” is a metaphor for our journey into “another world.” Jesus was a Jewish mystic in the prophetic tradition of his religion. A fact is, however, that prophets offend us and mystics scare us. However, without God we so not really exist and without us God is an abstraction.
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
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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