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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Waiting-A Poem
Hanging between possibilities Trying to stay balanced between the past and future Remaining focused on the present with eyes on the horizon Each step carefully placed One before the other As I move along the mobile wire No tether keeps … Continue reading
Forgiveness in a Graceless World-A Sermon
Ernest Hemmingway tells in one of his short stories called “The Capital of the World” an episode about forgiveness which goes like this: Madrid is full of boys named Paco, which is the diminutive form of Francisco, and there is … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Bosnia, Forgiveness, Genocide, Matthew 18, Miroslav Volf, Parables, Psalm 103, Reconciliation
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The Playground of the Mind
I wonder and imagine and play With the past and present and future Real and imaginary, fantasy and reality All ready to coexist in the playground of my mind And like a child entering a room full of toys … Continue reading
Dark Days
There are days where the emptiness takes over And nothing can fill the abyss inside When the successes of the past are transformed Into the bars that the future can never measure up to And the idealization of the way … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Psychology and Philosophy
Tagged Depression, Emptiness, Expectations, Weakness
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The Grudge- A Poem
I captured a grudge to let loose on you For grudges are common in Kalamazoo I found one the right size, it fit in my hand For a fully grown grudge can swallow a man It started so small, such … Continue reading
Means of Perception
In her insightful survey of Romantic philosophy’s concept of the imagination and the 20th Century critique of that concept, Mary Warnock arrives at the conclusion that, “Imagination is our means of interpreting the world, and it is also our … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity Project, Psychology and Philosophy
Tagged Hume, Interpretation, Kant, Mary Warnock, Perception, philosophy, Piaget, Theory of Mind
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The Father’s We Seek
On Mother’s Day I wrote about women being more than mothers, and on Father’s Day I’m going to take a different angle because I think men struggle with a different issue and that is in society they are at best … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Psychology and Philosophy
Tagged Father's Day, Fatherhood, relationships, shame, Work
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The Glorious Freedom of Creative Mistakes
We are limited beings who do attempt to make sense of our world and we have the gifts of perception and communication which help us to do that. Our perception allows us to see and experience the world and communication … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity Project, Psychology and Philosophy
Tagged Discovery, Imagination, Jacob Bronowski, Learning
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The Gift of Self Reference and Necessary Imaginative Constructs
As I mentioned at the beginning of the post Metaphors of Reality we try to make sense of ourselves, the world and (at least for those who think in spiritual or religious terms) God. But one of the struggles we … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity Project, Psychology and Philosophy
Tagged Discovery, Jacob Bronowski, philosophy, Science, Self-Reference
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Church in a Risky Environment
I had the privilege to be a part of a pair of lectures by Diana Butler Bass last weekend at my synod convention which really helped me get a better view of the spiritual climate change going on within the … Continue reading
Posted in Re-imagining Church
Tagged Diana Butler Bass, religion, Spiritual Climate Change, spirituality, Statistics
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