Dear Folks -
For those of you who have inquired, the audio of the March 8th Ordinary Life talk has now been located and is up on the website.
The title of this Ordinary Life Talk is "Masking Moral Failure." Whenever we are involved in practicing a lack of equality among all people, we have failed morally. To fail is one thing. To cover it up, deny it, lie about it, distort it or to do any of the other things the human community can do to avoid taking personality responsibility for the consequences of our behavior is something else. When we do fail morally the spiritual work to be done is to get up and start over again and to seek forgiveness.
Much love,
Bill Kerley
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This past summer when I was taking some time off all sorts of things got disrupted by hurricane Ike. One of those was a visit from some folks from the Live Oaks Friends Meeting here in Houston. Bob Stecker, who used to attend Ordinary Life, now attends this Quaker gathering. He will be accompanied by Larry Morcotte, clerk of the Meeting.
They will present a look at Quaker's over 350 year tradition, the ways the Quakers have of interacting with the global community and ways of worship at the local Live Oaks Friends Meeting.
Quakers believe in non-violence. They do not have ministers, believing each person who attends a worship service finds his or her own personal connection with God. They run the business of the Meeting in a town meeting style. They do not take sides but support both sides in a world conflict.
The presentation will be sharing of information followed by time for answering questions.
Much love,
Bill Kerley
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Read moreDear Folks -
Every person on this planet is an expression of the Sacred. If we lived with this awareness so many of the conflicts that wreck relationships and cause wars would evaporate. Also, if people would not divorce spirituality from religion many of the problems a gone-wrong religion cause would also go away. This life talk focuses on these matters. Included for fun is George Carlin's take on the Ten Commandments and a story from the Hindu tradition that shows how the divine essence pervades all that is and all who are.
The full text I used from which to speak is below. As usual, the written word varies from what was said so if you want to hear the audible version, go to the links below.
Because of logistical difficulties the audio version will not be posted until some time next week.
Much love,
Bill Kerley
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I have given myself the task of talking about the morality teaching of Jesus as found in the Sermon on the Mount. This week I conclude talking about the first of these teachings about "not killing." Spiritual teachings, I contend, are difficult for us to hear because they make us "uncomfortable." We are to do the spiritual work required so that we become conduits of the Sacred. That's the talk in a nutshell. The full text I used from which to speak is below. As usual, the written word varies from what was said so if you want to hear the audible version, go to the links below.
Much love,
Bill Kerley
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