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Tag Archives: uncertainty

Manna from Heaven: A Lesson in Beginner’s Mind 

Holy Bewilderment

If we agree to embark on a journey with this God, we will face periods of bewilderment. Continue Reading Holy Bewilderment

An Evolving Faith

We are all in evolution all the time. Continue Reading An Evolving Faith

Waiting and Unknowing

Darkness Waiting and Unknowing Sunday, December 1, 2019 First Sunday of Advent Advent [meaning “coming”], to the Church Fathers, was the right naming of the season when light and life are fading. They urged the faithful to set aside four weeks to fast, give, and pray—all ways to strip down, to let the bared soul… Continue Reading Waiting and Unknowing

Entering the Dark Wood

Hope in the Darkness Entering the Dark Wood Monday, September 4, 2017 The mystics of all the great religions, along with classic literature like Homer’s Odyssey, intuited that life was a journey involving completion of a first half and transition to a second half, sometimes called “a further journey.” Yet most of us were given the… Continue Reading Entering the Dark Wood

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