ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for March 5, 2023
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Dear Ones -
I have a link to the YouTube talk by Susannah Heschel from this past week. If you choose to watch it, you’ll have to fast forward through the first several minutes to get to the talk. Click here.
Thank Grace for Holly Hudley. She is so brilliant and articulate and, this past week, such a personal life-saver. Holly and I co-teach once a month in Ordinary Life and a week before this past Sunday I made a smart-aleck remark to her about “doing the heavy lifting” when we taught next. Little did either of us know that would become both a necessary and a godsend for me. During the week my beautiful bride had a fall and broke her left femur right at the shoulder socket. After hours in the middle of the night in the ER, it was determined to wait for a few days for additional evaluation. The outcome of this was for no surgery at this time but to wait to see if the body can heal itself. Otherwise, quite extensive surgery - which we would, of course, like to avoid. Clearly I am grateful we have access to the finest medical care there is and I am also so grateful to and for Holly. I encourage you to read the complete text of what we did because we didn’t get to use it all. Here is what I would say about what we did say -
The process of becoming more and more aware leads us inevitability into the arena of complexity. This complexity is reflected in Carl Jung’s definition of God. In light of this complexity and the number of real problems and crises we face, how can we embrace hope. Holly leads us into an understanding of what “active hope” involves by elaborating in practical ways how we can live the values of faith, hope and love. We called the time -
Never Losing Infinite Hope
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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