ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for March 9, 2025
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Dear Ones -
If you have not registered for the time Natia Bolz-Weber will be with us, I encourage you to do so. All people who register for the event will receive a link prior to the event that will allow for live-streaming. So that even if you live in Houston or near by and can’t attend the event in person, you will be able to participate that way. To learn more about and register for this event, click here.
This Saturday evening there is an Ordinary Life Happy hour. The time is 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the home of Stan and Shirley Beyer; 502 Park Trail Lane. More details will be in the preview you’ll receive Friday morning.
This week in Ordinary Life I used a line from a poem to set the stage for the teaching. The line is “our world is rife with desperation and ripe with joy.” You’ll find the entire poem in the text.
Following one of the narratives of Jesus we learn that the wayless way seeks to push us further out and deeper within at the same time. We must also be mindful that the audience to whom Jesus taught and who embraced him and his teachings were people he referred to as “the least of these.” Jesus became for them a guiding force, a companion, a protector, and a sustainer. For us this means, among other things, that the test of true faith is how much it lets us see and how much it stops us from denying, resisting, ignoring aspects of what is really going on in our world(s) and what is real.
The audio/video versions of the talk has some differences from the text I spoke from. You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and links to the audio and video version of the talk using the links below.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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