ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life

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Summary for June 13, 2021

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Dear Folks -

The registration link for next week’s Ordinary Life gathering is already up on the website. Next week I will be dialoguing with Dr. Jim Bankston, former Senior Pastor of St. Paul’s. Jim served St. Paul’s for nineteen years and is very knowledgeable about the future of the United Methodist Church. I’m sure you will want to plan to be present for this time. Click here to register.

This week we called the time in Ordinary Life

Letting The Cat Out of the Bag:
Spiritual Practice. It’s Not What You Think.

Using our new theme of The Way of Paradox and Contradiction, Holly talked about how the big becomes small and how the small contains pearls of the whole. I introduce Ken Wilbur’s phases of spiritual growth - cleaning up, growing up, waking up and showing up. Though there is a way to walk in having a spiritual practice, it is a pathless way. In speaking to the peace of mind we all want, I quote Richard Rohr as saying, “I’ve never met anyone who was in their mind who was at peace and no one who was at peace who was in their mind.” The time ends with my sharing one of my favorite Zen teaching stories of the Aikido student on a Tokyo commuter train.

That’s a brief summary of Ordinary Life for this week.

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Be well and much love,

Bill Kerley

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