tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179324672024-03-21T18:41:48.657-07:00A Silly Poor GospelFrom a Quaker Minister presently parked in the no-man's land of the Q Continuum.
I seek the full undiluted experience of the present Christ,
and hope never to settle for anything less -
What Margaret Fell called "A Silly Poor Gospel"Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.comBlogger672125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-12827806564836163212023-05-16T18:29:00.002-07:002023-05-16T18:32:16.553-07:00Girl Arrested 1917October 24, 1917 The Pueblo Colorado Chieftan (author uncredited)
Dressed in a complete boy's suit from top to toe, a rather pretty 17-year-old north side girl was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Roddy, and soon thereafter was taken to the county farm where she will be held until the county court can take proper action concerning her case, which it is expected will result in a sentence to the State Reform School for girls at Morrison.
This is the same girl who six weeks ago, after being missed from home for a week, was found doing man's work for the Fitts Manufacturing company. At that time she had secured a horse and buggy and driven eight miles in the country to the home of a family she knew; there she appropriated a serge suit belonging to the young man of the family, and after bobbing off her luxuriant head of hair, came to town and secured and up-to-date boys' haircut. She then hunted a job and got it. Upon being discovered, she was returned home.
Last Friday, after having been given $85 dollars by her mother to pay bills (which she did not pay) and after "borrowing"$20 more from the home, making a total of $105, she donned the suit she first wore and went down town and bought a complete set of boy's attire, including toilet articles, candy, gum, pocket knife with "loud" pictures on the handle, and watch and fob, secured a room on Union avenue, and was probably hunting a remunerative job. Roddy hove across her path and took her into custody.
This girl belongs to a good family, has a good and prosperous home, but she just wants to be a boy. .
Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-12347069334034851132023-05-10T10:39:00.004-07:002023-05-10T10:39:47.145-07:00St. Orville of the Garden on the topic of Sin<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJxX76YYXLfoR116PFvGGgzIg7T7XVbtJom3lQe-NxSI76eJ2MS3GeDd3FOk6aoP2JGIGASY1BBSkDkjPJOXQFuPT1LlL2fSfIfSw9AXsdBcZRz_vr2HYtkTGAfaWaOGPzu05igY5F2L1bLU8-LBhTLYB-ZTP2XjuMxhSwEbMuKpvDqV-yQ/s4032/desert%20primrose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJxX76YYXLfoR116PFvGGgzIg7T7XVbtJom3lQe-NxSI76eJ2MS3GeDd3FOk6aoP2JGIGASY1BBSkDkjPJOXQFuPT1LlL2fSfIfSw9AXsdBcZRz_vr2HYtkTGAfaWaOGPzu05igY5F2L1bLU8-LBhTLYB-ZTP2XjuMxhSwEbMuKpvDqV-yQ/s320/desert%20primrose.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 200px; text-align: left;"> Desert Primrose - oenothera primiveris<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My father taught Sunday school for my entire childhood.
Between him and my mother, I probably had them as Sunday morning teachers for
half of those 18 years. But my father’s best lessons were always taught in the
garden.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My father always said that a weed was usually a flower that
did not know its place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pulled some, he left some, he almost never
used poison. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While weeding with me, he taught me the names of the plants,
even the ones we were pulling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“This is called Deadly Nightshade – nuff said” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I played with that plant all the time – its little red
berries made a nice dye.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Jeepers, will it kill me?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Not unless you eat it – You are too smart to eat something called
Deadly Nightshade – right?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Righty-O”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He almost always veered into the spiritual.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Weeds are a lot like sin. You have to pull them out. Try to
get the roots, or you are just pruning, and they will bounce back stronger. But
make no mistake, you will never get them all. Weeding is a forever job. So is
uprooting sin. You only get to weed your own garden. Don’t get all proud
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</span>You also do not have to let anyone else tell you what to weed out of
your own garden. That’s your job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
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wrong with wildflowers, honey – they are a gift from God the shows that He
loves us.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I <u>was</u> smart enough not to eat poison berries. I was
also smart enough to know that he was talking about other Christians, and
preachers, and the doctrine of entire sanctification. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My father planted a lot of seeds. Some of them were seeds of
revolution.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3ArGD6TrGbcPAMgGmQSckyQaTym4pf71z3EH67V6Qi382Lh17PwLZaeefGIdH6cBt4cDBc-0MTZpSjqW1lAXf9TPqxcpO2w_UEeMzBrohELX-Aez2KjALqC5UJ9EgX7VBTmyaalI1dqpopngNZFyEsNLhpMJFsZTFFl8eDld4DhqiBfW1A/s2048/orvilleingreenhouse04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3ArGD6TrGbcPAMgGmQSckyQaTym4pf71z3EH67V6Qi382Lh17PwLZaeefGIdH6cBt4cDBc-0MTZpSjqW1lAXf9TPqxcpO2w_UEeMzBrohELX-Aez2KjALqC5UJ9EgX7VBTmyaalI1dqpopngNZFyEsNLhpMJFsZTFFl8eDld4DhqiBfW1A/s320/orvilleingreenhouse04.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-40543665072782579092022-11-11T11:13:00.002-08:002022-11-11T11:32:05.963-08:00Poolside<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s a nice
spring day here at the pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting with those who wait. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The pool is
empty. As usual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Most of us
glance intermittently at the pool, some stare.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
circles around the pool. Those on the edge sit or lay right on the precipice,
so they can throw themselves in at the first sign of Movement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">My mother
always said that I think too much. She was probably right.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I figure the
pool has to be spring fed. But you can’t see from where. I’ve looked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Once in a
while a great bubble comes up from somewhere below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They say it is the Holy One’s own breath. I’m
not sure what That One would be doing down below. I’ve always been told That
One was somewhere up above. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Anyway,
sometimes the earth belches, and then the front row dives or falls in as fast
as they can. They say if you get in first - it helps. Can’t say as I’ve seen
that - But there are stories. Hard to tell who is first most of the time. Just
a big splash. And then we have to fish out all the not-firsts before they
drown. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m in the
third row. I don’t have much of a chance. But it’s less boring and lonely than laying
around the house. We get our news here. We tell jokes. And people drop off food
and it's passed around by the halt but not-completely lame.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Some go home
at night, for some this is home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People’s
spots are saved – this is sacred. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ancient
Asher died of old age waiting – his crippled son took his place, so I guess your
spot can be hereditary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We get our
amusement where we can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Front row people
are supposed to be vigilant. But it gets boring, and guys don’t feel good, and
they sleep. If someone is leaning, and sleeping, and in danger of falling, we
usually nudge them or roll them back from the edge. But this afternoon Levi, Levi was
perched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like perfectly balanced into
the lean. And sound asleep. Everyone stopped watching the pool and started
watching Levi. It was silent. It was like the whole world got silent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Levi
wavered, he teetered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Then that
smartass Dan started count backwards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Kahmesh (5)…
he whispered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Arbah (4)…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Shalosh (3)…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Shta’im (2)…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And right
then Levi started to fall. And the entire host shouted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AKHAT! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Right as Levi’s
nose touched the water. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And everyone
to the fourth circle who could move jumped in right after him!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The bowl was
full of bodies. All the water was out of the pool. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But the laughter,
and the shouting! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a din!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I am sure
that we disturbed the prayers in the Holy Places.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It took many
minutes to extricate everyone. Unbending limbs. Shaking out beards.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We put everyone back in their places. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And then we
noticed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I shouted,
Where is Levi?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Great hubbub
and searching.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Levi was nowhere
to be found. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It took days
for the pool to refill, up from below, slowly. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Someone said
they saw Levi, walking on the road to Bethany. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But that is
probably just a story.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">. <br /></span></p>
<p></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-90494620054003679422022-08-11T15:24:00.003-07:002022-08-11T15:24:24.645-07:00Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dTZQC8wcu3V0yi3wfUKtRBFg8-ErVvIoKCE6M4MJMXsSaG5zTUKI3IQFtIf1bwHKycd3letp6cJpW_KmzVR_PIGnVmKvuyvJuk7oW3WqRtWKaStKCYtUGlWkuzu6hbdSaGrLWf9bYa1s4onUUHlvQFOORw61A15sHexZdgiS7t7Dh8iLiw/s1500/Creative_Centipede.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="1500" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dTZQC8wcu3V0yi3wfUKtRBFg8-ErVvIoKCE6M4MJMXsSaG5zTUKI3IQFtIf1bwHKycd3letp6cJpW_KmzVR_PIGnVmKvuyvJuk7oW3WqRtWKaStKCYtUGlWkuzu6hbdSaGrLWf9bYa1s4onUUHlvQFOORw61A15sHexZdgiS7t7Dh8iLiw/w531-h228/Creative_Centipede.jpg" width="531" /></a></div><p></p><p>Albuquerque is all about the billboards - the one pictured above is ginormous and the centipede is three dimensional. Their new one has a giant (at least 25 ft) scorpion threatening 1-25 traffic. These warnings say a lot about the environment here. </p><p>We recently had a different company take care of our black widows after we found more than a few and those mate-killers and they had egg sacks ready to go. </p><p>Speaking of mate-killers I came out onto the deck one evening and saw this.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtFdWtOfd5yWsnzH42vDlidCgRpF16j1xf7M45SlVotixG5IIUlKBcYCwaWD7RJd1Esp5owJqD4XrWSNyh7OSbHqF5HoHH-pFdK8WvqR5M7_1zILwvlm5Ad4WkpGMHXSjNrlKKMYrzQzRWac5NTk9c4G-3zYbZ22YmI_axfWeLwGJqOejIg/s4032/preying.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtFdWtOfd5yWsnzH42vDlidCgRpF16j1xf7M45SlVotixG5IIUlKBcYCwaWD7RJd1Esp5owJqD4XrWSNyh7OSbHqF5HoHH-pFdK8WvqR5M7_1zILwvlm5Ad4WkpGMHXSjNrlKKMYrzQzRWac5NTk9c4G-3zYbZ22YmI_axfWeLwGJqOejIg/s320/preying.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> At first I thought that finding a praying mantis on the hummingbird feeder was a good thing - it meant that the black widow poison had not killed all the beneficial bug eaters. I left her where she was. But something was poking at the back of my brain. So I put "Mantis vs. hummingbird" into Google.</p><p>Up popped this from none other than the Audubon Society</p><p><i>"It’s rare, but it’s gruesome."</i> Occasionally a PREYING mantis does snatch a hummingbird out of the air. I guess they have tasty brains or something. (photo from Audubon site)<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxbn5nR2_L-Rxn0p1JyX-GdJElRDEXwk82ObeEueWeTA8B0ExqMy9mJYb3NZE5rPqeYSjltcCTk5ufgmqOVd9faNBMd1wF1jereQ_HCVMvr4t-m6mMly2BuVADnizWMrCas5BwZ07FXK7lI_N3HVr0uZpHbV9771SRqwt_GYzGuaScd7Dmg/s1597/tom_vaughan3afeva_fotos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1597" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxbn5nR2_L-Rxn0p1JyX-GdJElRDEXwk82ObeEueWeTA8B0ExqMy9mJYb3NZE5rPqeYSjltcCTk5ufgmqOVd9faNBMd1wF1jereQ_HCVMvr4t-m6mMly2BuVADnizWMrCas5BwZ07FXK7lI_N3HVr0uZpHbV9771SRqwt_GYzGuaScd7Dmg/s320/tom_vaughan3afeva_fotos.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> SO... I went back out on the deck with a flashlight and a broom and made the ambitious mantis move along. Danged if she wasn't right back in the same spot in the morning. Apparently our resident mantis is an aspiring big game hunter. This time I took her to the farthest spot in the yard.<p></p><p>On the way back I saw one of our two resident bunnies - a juvenile (about 6 inches.)</p><p> Not much cuter than a baby bunny.<br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVGk9cCOghwUThwhOmtOE682WSxvzROI9WjLl_yuvILKxwl7_0XgTke65dKaLSLpnhnF7CyKJXOL5Tg_WEYWg6OBYL4muqvcHiUSvcoMgeebu9RJqL2jNifMxskwhaW6YPS3X6jtsC_NbpeuOFzSkhIHY5L2fALvhRzNUo1JAyfzBCtmXhA/s300/desert-cottontail-1929343_1280-225x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="225" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVGk9cCOghwUThwhOmtOE682WSxvzROI9WjLl_yuvILKxwl7_0XgTke65dKaLSLpnhnF7CyKJXOL5Tg_WEYWg6OBYL4muqvcHiUSvcoMgeebu9RJqL2jNifMxskwhaW6YPS3X6jtsC_NbpeuOFzSkhIHY5L2fALvhRzNUo1JAyfzBCtmXhA/s1600/desert-cottontail-1929343_1280-225x300.jpg" width="225" /></a></div>I have mixed feelings about the bunnies, because they can eat your garden clean in a night, but so far the two who live with us have taken a reasonable tithe.<p></p><p>I stepped back up on the deck and watched the bun for a minute or two. A dose of cute did me good at that point. But soon I had a weird feeling of having eyes on me. I looked left - and there - six feet from my head sitting on the deck screen was a very larger raptor. Raptor looked at me and I looked at bun. Raptor looked at bun.<br /></p><p>I clapped by hands and yelled "RUN!" and she did.</p><p>Big bad bird gave me a dirty look and lazily flew off. </p><p>Not today, Mr. Hawk - Not today.</p><p>I did not get a pic of the hawk.</p><p> <br /></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>.<br /><br /></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-71601258043965166052022-07-27T10:49:00.001-07:002022-07-27T10:49:04.681-07:00Our Lady of Junction<p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">So
There I was…
Halfway across the state of Texas working on a spiritual discipline.
I am mildly allergic to the entire concept of discipline. It smacks of
work. It stinks of tedium. These things do not call to me. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">But
I do desire to be a deeply spiritual person. Not the kind of pop-faith
consumer who has a new guru or path with every season. I am ready to
settle down: to choose one path and stick to it, and spend the second
half of my life mastering it. To do this I am afraid that I must
practice a spiritual discipline or two.
The purpose of practicing any spiritual discipline is twofold: to
aerobically exercise the soul and to increase awareness of The Divine.
The traditional practices of prayer, fasting, simplicity, and so on,
have great merit, and I occasionally work at them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">
I have found a new discipline that suits me, and stretches me in ways I
never thought possible. It is the discipline of Spiritual Adventure.
The Discipline of Spiritual Adventure is not just simple thrill seeking,
but <i><b>the intentional choosing of the less certain way in order to allow the Divine maximum room to move</b></i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">When
we are outside of our comfort zone, when we are on an unknown path, our
senses are heightened, including our spiritual senses that so often lay
dormant as we proceed through life on autopilot. We pay more attention
to detail. We are aware of, and communicate our thoughts and desires,
more diligently to our Designer. We listen better.
Choice is an essential piece of Spiritual Adventure. We must
acknowledge, embrace, and take responsibility for the freedom we are
given as eternal children of a Divine Creator. An adventure that is not
freely chosen is a detour at best, and sometimes a nightmare. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Many
of us use our freedom to so fill our lives with busyness, structure and
control that there is no room for adventure. We do this almost with out
thinking, unconsciously barricading our life against the unknown. But I
tell you, it is still choice; it is intentional, and intention counts.
It is not a spiritual adventure if you are treading a well-worn path.
Fresh road is required. Navigating not by memory, but by a combination
of reason and trust.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">To
practice this discipline you must become aware of crossroads when you
come to them. Often they are not marked or obvious. Daily we make
decisions that will change our entire future; often it is only in
hindsight that we see it. The discipline of Spiritual Adventure says
that we can develop foresight and a present awareness that allows us to
be fully conscious participants in our choices. And beyond that it tells
us that the universe is trustworthy and that we can renounce fear, and
trust our Creator and our own spiritual senses to keep us away from real
disaster when we choose uncertain paths. A crossroads is a pivotal
place where fear wrestles with obedience. It is one of the best places I
know of to develop discernment, or wisdom listening.
But we do not seek this discipline purposeless, we seek it with the
desire, the craving, to see with our own eyes the movement, influence,
and evidence of the Divine. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">We
can only see this when we get our plans, agendas and ourselves out of
the way. There are no preplanned spaces in my calendar for miracles.
Spiritual adventure can be fun, but often it isn’t. It is always
stretching. Even a genuine miracle can be scary at the time -- just ask
Jonah. It doesn’t always feel safe, but practiced properly it is safe.
In fact, it is much safer than living a spiritually unaware, unawake
life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Simple
risk taking is betting on your luck, or your skill; and like any bet
the odds can be good, or the shot can be a long one. Spiritual Adventure
presumes that there is another player, and that the other has your true
best interests as its goal and guiding principle. This is an essential
truth: yes, the house always wins, but you and the house have intimate
connections. <br /></span></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-56989334188599197402022-07-19T20:02:00.004-07:002023-04-27T20:07:07.090-07:00In Loco Parentis<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-iv1haSehzDVeSiUSahSoNT3XbIo9NfnLejXHAr_yUyLxxD9kYic3hmdZvh0Co9vGcmvii1nIDvB_aQe5BPuReCLAFWj_sqhilzcg8oViq4pU8aeTgJIhxcygBS_WtFRLtBYDDRrk4R6pAGo2ahz_8icouFx_IjKs_rimmEtdI2nw9XHmJQ/s466/OP%20church%20jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="383" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-iv1haSehzDVeSiUSahSoNT3XbIo9NfnLejXHAr_yUyLxxD9kYic3hmdZvh0Co9vGcmvii1nIDvB_aQe5BPuReCLAFWj_sqhilzcg8oViq4pU8aeTgJIhxcygBS_WtFRLtBYDDRrk4R6pAGo2ahz_8icouFx_IjKs_rimmEtdI2nw9XHmJQ/s320/OP%20church%20jpeg.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I was married on my twentieth birthday. Back in the Mesozoic Era (1977). On that day my parents ceased to have any legal authority over me, they no longer had legal parental care responsibilities for me, and would not have been the first choice to make legal or medical decisions on my behalf if need be. All those rights and responsibilities conveyed to my 24 year old husband. When my father walked me down the aisle and handed me over to the young man of my youthful choice, the symbolism was real. For one year there were certain ways in which he was both my spouse and legal parent. I thought getting married would make me an adult - I wasn't prepared for the ways in it would continue my childhood.<br /></p><p>We were students in New Mexico (where I once again live.) When the college had a river-rafting field trip - I could not sign my own liability waiver - he had to sign a permission slip for me. I thought that was kind of funny.</p><p>I was not old enough to buy alcohol, but in any restaurant in the state he could say "...and I would like to buy a margarita for my wife." and no questions were asked. I had a ring on my left hand. If we ever did get carded - they carded him - not me - because my age did not matter if he was buying for me. I could have been sixteen, and if legally married - which my father could have consented to - I could drink - or not - as my husband wished. The legal doctrine for this is In Loco Parentis - he was legally acting in the place of a parent. In New Mexico at that time - a Pater Familias could put wine on the table and pour out to the children - he decided how much they could handle. I thought it was kind of cool to have what I thought were adult privileges early.</p><p>When I was a single girl, especially a white girl, I could open a bank account - I had one in Illinois when I was a child, and got checks made when I was 16. At 18 they added a question - to all women opening accounts - "Are you married?" because if you were, you needed your husband's signature. Hmm.</p><p>Shortly after the wedding I went down to the women's clinic and had a check up and asked for birth control pills. "Are you married? oh, then we need your husband to fill out and sign this form saying he approves." This time it did not matter if I was was 20 or 21. I did not like this one bit - but I had him fill out the form.<br /></p><p>Ten years, and two children later - Now in Oregon, I told my doctor that I was satisfied with two children and wanted to have my tubes tied. My doctor wanted assurances that my husband was also satisfied. Then or now, a man can walk into his doctor's office and ask for a vasectomy and no one else's opinion matters. </p><p>In 2005 after my father's passing and receiving my inheritance, I asked my bank for a credit card in my own name. They wanted my husband to co-sign. But my rights had changed by this time and I made a stink, and quoted law, and got my own line of credit. What I did not know was that inheritance did not count as marital property - I could have put that money away in an account in my own name, but I did not. My inheritance got spent on marital expenses and was gone by the time of the divorce 2 years later.</p><p>Rights, as it turns out are temporal, and sometimes fragile. You can't buy booze for kids in a restaurant in New Mexico anymore. And as of this year, a women's fertility may not be in her own control.<br /></p><p>There is a contingent of misogynistic, patriarchal people in this country (and they are not all men,) who want to turn back time. Make sure that women can only marry men. Make sure that men control women's finances and fertility. They would prefer that women don't vote. They would make women legally children if they could. Maybe even decide if they can get a drink.<br /></p><p>We are not so far from having women who appear to be of child bearing age being denied alcohol, or plane tickets, because they 'might' be pregnant and the decision should not be theirs to make.</p><p>Ten years ago, deep in the Obama years, I would have laughed at this notion.</p><p>I am not laughing any more.</p><p>Because I remember being a married child. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>. <br /></p><p> <br /></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-57807719558899381232022-07-14T11:53:00.007-07:002022-07-17T10:38:22.876-07:00Monsoon Love<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcitbKDr9anpFkOOm4Z3HNf3DmeQ8ufSr1Guh0ZCPUntCea2_1E4YmINpbK5Zbyaz2JW8aj6VxY8HaPzsZfy595jyKIcAj6Zyqvgtiss0yCH-pB-cLuLv2RbEjf2vZ_Z5lPEwZGn55pmiq23_jwrjHCV0SV4udlnYV6668xNkXuaxzYo3-1w/s275/ABQ%20Monsoon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcitbKDr9anpFkOOm4Z3HNf3DmeQ8ufSr1Guh0ZCPUntCea2_1E4YmINpbK5Zbyaz2JW8aj6VxY8HaPzsZfy595jyKIcAj6Zyqvgtiss0yCH-pB-cLuLv2RbEjf2vZ_Z5lPEwZGn55pmiq23_jwrjHCV0SV4udlnYV6668xNkXuaxzYo3-1w/w400-h266/ABQ%20Monsoon.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Albuquerque, New Mexico is high desert. It is at the tippy top of the Chihauhuan Desert which is mostly in Mexico, but flows up the Rio Grande Valley. This allows a wonderful, miraculous thing to happen every summer. Just when the summer gets really hot and unbearable, moisture flows into Mexico from the Gulf to the East, or the Gulf to the West, and flows landward; it hits the mountains and mixed with all the heat, forms thunder heads which rain on the dry lands. Because of the mountains of the continental divide, this weather pattern comes north into Arizona and New Mexico. It doesn't really so much move, like storms across the great plains - it blossoms, it bubbles up, and then it pours down. </p><p>The people who have lived here the longest call these the male rains. They are blustery, and involve a lot of lighting and thunder. Winter rains, female rains, are less dramatic. Winter rains are also more prudent, and stockpile in the mountains in the form of snow and feed the valleys for months. And just when that winter bounty runs out, the noisy, fast, loud rains come. This is when you need to stay out of the arroyos. Believe the Earth. When you see what looks like a riverbed, believe it is a riverbed at least sometimes. If you pitch you tent on that nice flat sandy ground, when the daddy rains come he can make you very sorry.</p><p>The National Weather Service calls these rains monsoons. They are regular and yet notoriously difficult to predict in the specific. They can be very specific. Your neighbor an acre away can be experiencing a microburst that drops a couple of inches of rain in minutes and might include hail. You can watch this from sun-drenched, thirsty ground. Today may not be your day - tomorrow you may be bailing out the garage. We are on the edge of a Mesa with a view of the mountain. She gets wet more often than we do. We watch her and try not to be envious.</p><p>The first rain, whenever it come to you, is joyous. If you are oriented to your place, you go out and stand in it, or even dance a bit. <br /></p><p>Every day we watch for the clouds to build. The monsoon is like a toddler working up to a fit. Sometimes he gets distracted, and calms down. Sometime he reaches full torment. Sometimes it's over the top and gets destructive. You never know. </p><p>You plant your beans and corn and squash and you hope. </p><p>But this you should know. You can't do anything about it. You can stay out of the arroyos, but you cannot make the rain come to your beans. This is a higher power. The oceans and the mountains and the deserts are old hands at this. This is an earth loving - life giving - somewhat dangerous - process. You can pray, and hope, and dance. But it is not about you. You cannot control it. <u>Life itself</u> is not really controlling this.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="text Matt-5-44" id="en-NIV-23279"><span class="woj">But I tell you, </span></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="text Matt-5-44" id="en-NIV-23279"><span class="woj">love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,</span></span> </i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i> </i><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj"><i>that you may be children
of God. </i></span></span><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj"><i></i></span></span><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj"><i> </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj"><i>God who causes the sun to rise on the evil and the
good, </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj"><i>and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.</i> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj">- Jesus, according to Matthew.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-NIV-23280"><span class="woj">. </span></span> <br /></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-6987555167215232762022-06-26T09:19:00.002-07:002022-06-26T16:47:07.146-07:00Lifting Rocks<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">He told us to live abundantly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He did not promise abundance. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He did say that joy would abound and grace would multiply.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And yet, living abundantly is not always easy. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have recently come into an abundance of time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is actually a little disturbing. </p><p class="MsoNormal">So, I have started
re-orienting myself in my safe place – the garden.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Blooming things provoke joy in me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grace being the interface between the Infinite Abundance, and the
frail and finite - well,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every garden is Graceland. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve got just over a third of an acre, 16 thousand square feet, minus the house.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Living here before us; 13 mature trees, several large
shrubs, a vine and some prickly pear cactus. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ground is sandy and abundant with small stones – not clay, </p><p class="MsoNormal">and not the caliche concrete that causes gardeners here to despair.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It seemed to me to be ripe for enrichment. Good soil can be
made from sand. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then I put a shovel into it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our home is on what used to be a mesa overlooking the Rio
Grande flood plain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, humans have built all over the plain, and on the mesa – out as far as the eye can see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are on the edge, between the two, and our lot slopes down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">When they built in 1962, they must have
leveled the lot - somewhat.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My shovel found out how they did that. River rock. Tons and tons of
river rock. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A compacted strata nearly a foot thick, found below 2-6
inches of decades of sand and dust.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It stopped my heaviest shovel with a crunch.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I could have left it alone and built on top. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But I am both curious and stubborn – this is known.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, I got down on the ground with a trowel and started
excavating.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then I found the plastic. They put down a barrier under the
rock.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To stop what imaginary weeds, I do not know.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mostly shredded now by the years – but still there – now and
forever.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Selah.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, one square foot at a time. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have started hand digging, and ripping out plastic shreds
and lifting rocks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It helps that the rocks are beautiful. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Polished river rock, not from around here: quartz and jasper
and granite, and I don’t know what.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s a treasure hunt. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A sifting that divides the land into soft root spaces and
glistening pathways. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While I am down there, I am burying Alpaca Poo in every
hole.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am topping it with homemade compost.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Book says the world started in a Garden.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every spiritual lesson I have ever learned can be learned in
a garden. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been in a liminal space. A waiting. A wondering what's next.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ground itself has answered me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RIP UP THE BARRIERS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FIND AND LIFT THE TREASURES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BURY THE SHIT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MAKE PATHWAYS AND PLACES TO PUT DOWN ROOTS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SELAH <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8zWDhPIwWIVi-PvhGTTqn1uW-KHfPS2Sr2YPHhtHbGkqUxKrRZJmyh5L8C-eBFWdqPne7j2OCCCgpjXMTHJoij60Fl296cT4ahhhYGj0nORTZKbhr3MXwNTX3OmKN0rbUoceCtOwBNWIAvRZTJJ16W1j9d_OiDq0rkPUoHdDlX21YuzFV6Q/s4032/Excavating.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8zWDhPIwWIVi-PvhGTTqn1uW-KHfPS2Sr2YPHhtHbGkqUxKrRZJmyh5L8C-eBFWdqPne7j2OCCCgpjXMTHJoij60Fl296cT4ahhhYGj0nORTZKbhr3MXwNTX3OmKN0rbUoceCtOwBNWIAvRZTJJ16W1j9d_OiDq0rkPUoHdDlX21YuzFV6Q/s320/Excavating.JPG" width="240" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfbjYBHRLQN3cM5toBTUl8Kyb9wVqu9Ji_28Hu5x84ZRZlrD-SN5CvfeT5syGBPPHhRcpwwavIpxG4Wfpyaw75N_CFBXwu0erVhskX_BH4pDvKTTJayLtaerafsPm8c0ruHxPSVb37NGZzqkjyAayVe7Bo9LeN66ykzITGxkdeLqdCR5z64g/s4032/Lifted%20Rocks.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfbjYBHRLQN3cM5toBTUl8Kyb9wVqu9Ji_28Hu5x84ZRZlrD-SN5CvfeT5syGBPPHhRcpwwavIpxG4Wfpyaw75N_CFBXwu0erVhskX_BH4pDvKTTJayLtaerafsPm8c0ruHxPSVb37NGZzqkjyAayVe7Bo9LeN66ykzITGxkdeLqdCR5z64g/w375-h271/Lifted%20Rocks.JPG" width="375" /></a></div></div><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-26885653081570073472022-06-12T12:24:00.000-07:002022-06-12T12:24:21.854-07:00Jesus Sembrador - a parable<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7ciKfYXlBGUcEhbuTNsuRN2ZqJvz_i9s3bTf5VVh_K3-g4TfoFOIFeprXxA7wRaxXnsy9zev4DyqNZfCbH_Fv2lMgU6H1BS3Agg8M0aopFMdMTOmKQlA5aVBR9m59bpp3M9RNikI18wRhrpbkaqCvu4JeBPG8V3J8FJ1e4YLNEpLjxOsvA/s4032/Jesus%20and%20the%20%20pinto.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7ciKfYXlBGUcEhbuTNsuRN2ZqJvz_i9s3bTf5VVh_K3-g4TfoFOIFeprXxA7wRaxXnsy9zev4DyqNZfCbH_Fv2lMgU6H1BS3Agg8M0aopFMdMTOmKQlA5aVBR9m59bpp3M9RNikI18wRhrpbkaqCvu4JeBPG8V3J8FJ1e4YLNEpLjxOsvA/s320/Jesus%20and%20the%20%20pinto.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After the farmer sowed some tomato and lettuce seeds, quite broadly, he went to sleep. From his bed he heard a gentle night rain for it was the short rainy season. The rain made him happy. When he got up he went to check the seeds. Some had been eaten by the birds which he did not really resent because birds need to eat too. Some seemed to have settled on the nice patch of earth and were damp, and he knew they would germinate, so he pulled a few weeds and left them alone because they would be fine without intervention. But when he saw that a lot of them were sitting on some pretty bad soil, and didn't have much of a chance, and he repented, because he knew this was his fault. </p><p>So he picked some more weeds and he went over to his sister's place because his sister was a Good Shepherd, and he shoveled a bunch of sheep shit. His sister was glad to get rid of it. Then he went to his brother's place because his brother was a Good Carpenter, and he brought home a barrowful of wood shavings. He combined the three holy ingredients and let the rains fall on the pile. And the pile did compost. He dug the compost into the bad soil, and planted in a slightly more intentional manner. </p><p>In the fullness of time he and his siblings enjoyed some every good mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, because their mother baked some very fine bread. </p><p>And they said unto him "Bro - you are a Good Gardener!"</p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-90503399779894963702022-06-05T13:12:00.002-07:002022-06-08T13:37:31.144-07:00Orienting to a New Horizon<p>(caveat: the following are advices to be lightly held. Maybe they will be thinking prompts. What is below is not for the newly or acutely bereaved. Some of the ideas here may be useful after a while, but they are not a substitute for a medical professional or a grief specialist.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6O59y2mUf_IIEgNknRP9Zgj1o864DLTaQiluL7_QPUcq4EsqTcgxquXPZCy5JJIB-H_5tvCqb8lWhDMabORH_Rzs6cvc8va4Ub0-4sgi5zAGcaIubmFe-gBW4-rlNB-uDbGGHq8kCIx1BK0-17UMXl-niegWn7jbs5kXiSxWwe3X4eRAZiA/s1030/tiny%20dinosaur.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1030" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6O59y2mUf_IIEgNknRP9Zgj1o864DLTaQiluL7_QPUcq4EsqTcgxquXPZCy5JJIB-H_5tvCqb8lWhDMabORH_Rzs6cvc8va4Ub0-4sgi5zAGcaIubmFe-gBW4-rlNB-uDbGGHq8kCIx1BK0-17UMXl-niegWn7jbs5kXiSxWwe3X4eRAZiA/s320/tiny%20dinosaur.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>So here you are. By design, choice, or luck - good or bad - you are facing a new horizon. Perhaps a cyclone has dropped you into a completely new land. Perhaps you are stepping out of a broken down Tardis. Perhaps you have packed your pirogue and slid into a great river. Perhaps the people are around you are loved ones or old comrades. Perhaps you are pursuing a new love. Perhaps you feel alone.</p><p>At first glance some things seem familiar or understandable, then the differences start popping up. Maybe too many differences. My new yard is lousy with tiny dinosaurs. But we do not have mosquitos or slugs. Everything is different, some things obviously beneficial, others not so much - a lot of the time I don't really know what is going on.</p><p>I want to feel grounded - this is my goal. I want to feel like I am at home. I want to be connected with my purpose. I want to be able to find my way in this new landscape. Fortunately I am old and wily. I have flipped my world before. I have learned a few tricks. None of them absolve me from the hard work of <b>re-orientation</b>. Nothing short circuits the time it takes. But it is really important to have a goal and some idea of how to get to it. Re-orientation starts with <u>observation.</u> It requires the <u>acquisition of knowledge and skills</u> with all the messy short-term failures that go with it. And it requires <u>dedicated action</u>. <br /><br /></p><p>The observation stage requires you to slow down and really listen and see. Be abundantly curious. There is research to do. Sometimes it is a nicely scientific process; observe, hypothesize, test, observe, document and adjust. Rinse and repeat. But sometimes it is way more random than that. You may need to talk to strangers. Lay down your easy answers. Ask lots of questions. Ask weird questions. Ask dumb questions. </p><p>If done openly and persistently, observation will lead right into knowledge. </p><p>Here are some things you might want to know:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>What is this place or condition called?</li><li>Who has gone before me here? How did they live? How did they die?</li><li>What grows here?</li><li>What are the seasons here, or what do phases or milestones look like here?</li><li>Where does your water come from? your electricity? power in general?</li><li>What are the dangers to be avoided here? Are there any fabled tales of woe?</li><li>What were you put here on Earth to do? Can you do that thing here?</li><li>The questions are infinite. The questions are good.</li></ul><div><br /></div><div>Here are some skills you might want to work on:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Can you physically navigate your surroundings?</li><li>Can you point to the NorthStar? What is your metaphorical NorthStar? Can you find it?</li><li>What is your compass - your defining directional?</li><li>Build a mental map of your surroundings. How many landmarks can find?</li><li>Figure out how to eat. You need skills in self-restoration.</li><li>Then make sure your pets and children and lovers (maybe even plants) are ok.</li><li>You need the ability to ask for help.</li><li>You need the ability to honestly admit when you are not ok.</li><li>You need the ability to shoo off the fixers, and keep the grounders.</li><li>You need to be able to spot a predator. </li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here are some possible actions to take:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Get a library card.</li><li>Make the acquaintance of a know-it-all child - 10-13 is usually good for this. Hire them.</li><li>Get your money in order.</li><li>Find the nearest body of water - go sit by it for a bit.</li><li>Eat local food, and eat seasonally.</li><li>Keep a calendar of days - have your (good) ancestors major dates on it. Think of them often.</li><li>Find some elders.</li><li>Do something physical every day.</li><li>Pay attention to sleep!</li><li>Find people who sing your songs, or play your game, join them on the regular. </li><li>Talk to people who know you well, and who you like. Listen to them.</li><li>Pray or meditate or unplug for a piece of time every day.</li><li>Consider turning off the News.</li><li>Document your past - invest in your future.</li></ul></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a start. This is what Alivia and I are doing. Again. For the umpteenth time in this life.</p><p>We will be fully oriented again. </p><p><br /></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-50906324138716888402022-06-01T19:25:00.001-07:002022-06-01T19:25:54.442-07:00Orienteering 2/3<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6pd85XbPl1V_9EXsetJ-4JV0fkAAw_tx6eoAXFOnbKqpdEQSuCNM1mlLRQXJXFo2r709aJBrrupi-g8pQ-M5GsqEFewIzjeNDcM-C3WfAPVqrKF2NtVkPWBA0sgXdFerBL2wJxG1NuRGtDfG-nxgvO5B9H5ymH6SJUHaagjKdcyvpLiRGg/s1040/early%20dad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="628" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6pd85XbPl1V_9EXsetJ-4JV0fkAAw_tx6eoAXFOnbKqpdEQSuCNM1mlLRQXJXFo2r709aJBrrupi-g8pQ-M5GsqEFewIzjeNDcM-C3WfAPVqrKF2NtVkPWBA0sgXdFerBL2wJxG1NuRGtDfG-nxgvO5B9H5ymH6SJUHaagjKdcyvpLiRGg/s320/early%20dad.jpg" width="193" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvLDDsco5AWlFHUVLWdc87deZ2Qhxzge05I6WTmqIpuKq48lp8X5vM8805iz_5Mlbm8ZBBGRi5NpQ3b2Os223DDgO6rtR3DU48agaRxIFul7iBqDa9d2nGB3PNOsdJcjUy0skulbAPEo_wUkoN3EgzqTzc-CDbDht7zhw-NGotgDuIbIoWA/s839/young%20daddy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="778" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvLDDsco5AWlFHUVLWdc87deZ2Qhxzge05I6WTmqIpuKq48lp8X5vM8805iz_5Mlbm8ZBBGRi5NpQ3b2Os223DDgO6rtR3DU48agaRxIFul7iBqDa9d2nGB3PNOsdJcjUy0skulbAPEo_wUkoN3EgzqTzc-CDbDht7zhw-NGotgDuIbIoWA/s320/young%20daddy.jpeg" width="297" /></a></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">My dad grew up in the Thatcher Woods. His widowed mother
worked 2 jobs, six days a week. His older brothers also worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He went to school, but every other minute was
spent running with what he called his “gang” in the forest preserves along the Desplaines
River outside of Chicago. He lived wild all summer. He later claimed that he
was saved by a scoutmaster and Sunday school teacher. This man gave organization
to his native earned skills, and a moral compass. He also acquired a real
compass – World War One US army surplus. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first time I remember seeing this compass was in those
very same woods some forty years later. Sometimes he would take me on a
Saturday to do something - just me and him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our family of five lived in a very small flat, and I guess taking the
middle girl-child out of the mix allowed my mother the space to get some things
done. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The woods were his classroom; he taught me how to walk
quietly through the underbrush without breaking twigs (I was a noisy child – I
think this was part of the ruse.) He taught me how to get close to a rabbit by
walking silently in a large, but slowly shrinking circle that the bunny
perceived as tangential. I learned the look of poison ivy and oak. He showed me
how to find north/south by the moss on the trees and east/west by the sun. You
had to learn these things before you got to use the compass. I learned how to
navigate the woods on or off the trails. Eventually he put me and the compass
on a path and gave me a hand drawn map. He said he was gonna drive around to
another trailhead and wait – my job was to use the compass and find the right
paths and meet him there. I was probably ten.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The process is called orienteering. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a Scandinavian invented sport. I bet Boy
Scouts in the 1920’s had picked it up. You use observations skills, knowledge
about the land, a compass, and sometimes maps to navigate a complex terrain to
end up at a specific goal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I bet my journey wasn’t much more than a mile – maybe 2 at
most. But it felt like the Oregon Trail. I did not see another person on my
trek. There was at least one fork in the path and I made my choice by my
compass and map. I did not get lost. Because eventually the the woods cleared,
and there was Daddy, leaning on the Ford Falcon, waiting for me – a smile on
his face. We went for ice cream. I have a feeling that mom didn’t get all the
details of the afternoon. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I knew I was getting life lessons. But I had no idea just
how far these lessons would stretch.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(to be continued)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-60807354109256271782022-05-29T14:02:00.005-07:002022-06-01T19:25:42.374-07:00On Orientation 1/3<p> </p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjai9Z4CpkAf3W6ISIdtch-Tj6_rAlAsLifIW2IKV1XmRVKEn7fVq6ECoEtbG-bdv0eQI4WDVIRzrW0T2jKOCI-pHN8zA_4_l-yBWCMIaN69WNzatFMNnEiEz39O3P2GCmmYyQr-bDwCy4MOar-LewXX7QOCN3yHOfCLqo7ZransXdSp_eA/s733/compass.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="706" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjai9Z4CpkAf3W6ISIdtch-Tj6_rAlAsLifIW2IKV1XmRVKEn7fVq6ECoEtbG-bdv0eQI4WDVIRzrW0T2jKOCI-pHN8zA_4_l-yBWCMIaN69WNzatFMNnEiEz39O3P2GCmmYyQr-bDwCy4MOar-LewXX7QOCN3yHOfCLqo7ZransXdSp_eA/s320/compass.JPG" width="308" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have been disoriented. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ours is a willful, chosen disorientation, but we are
befuddled none the less. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have moved 1500 hundred miles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have flipped our climate from temperate-rainy-sea level to
high desert extremous.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We now are tri-generational cohabitants.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We traded a solid middle-class income with benefits for temporary
voluntary poverty and one of us is experimenting with being self-insured for
health care.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We decreased our personal possessions by 80% in under a
year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We also cut the square footage of space we live in by 80%.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The totality of this is more than unsettling.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">…………………………………………<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet we are so blessed to be able to have made these choices
ourselves.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because there are so many ways to get disoriented. Many of
them do not ask your consent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And some of them are hellacious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unchosen loss, sudden loss, gradual but relentlessly
dissipating loss.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose someone you loved more than life.</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose your health - or lose your marbles</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose your ability to meet your own needs</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose your relationship</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose your faith</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose your community</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose a possibly false, but comforting, sense
of security</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You lose your nest</li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Ø<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Some horrible combination of the above</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">…………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And you find yourself: rocked, unsteady, discombobulated, dismembered,
bereft, in shock, raw, confused, disoriented.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And maybe you want to know how to get back to the ground you
were on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it even possible?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">……………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sadly, the answer is no. You will never again be that person
that you were.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Disruption changes you. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And the possible choices may look like oblivion, perma-numb,
walking wounded and/or re-orientation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Re-orientation is very hard work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depending on the magnitude of change, it is
long work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But fortunately, it is the path to stability and growth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next post on this blog will describe a process of finding
a new center.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Spiritual Discipline of Re-Orientation, if you can
handle that language.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A behavioral and psychological process of re-rooting, and
regaining vigor, if you cannot. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-65331972811084007282022-03-20T12:08:00.004-07:002022-03-20T13:48:45.965-07:00Providence - Moving version<p> SO I was in a bit of a Lament yesterday. </p><p>I am alone in my house that will not be my house in a few days. After 30+ years. </p><p>And yet I will be living here for another 26 days - because the buyers love me and want me to get my cash but not be inconvenienced.</p><p>There is so much to schlepp and clean. </p><p>And fourteen of those days will be eaten by my job. Which came by surprise when I was at my lowest and in 13 years has paid all my bills and debts and will provide for a plausible retirement. I work with good people, some of whom love me, and say so, and are grieving my departure.</p><p>The yard is big and growing grass and weeds and flowers at a wild pace on this vernal equinox. </p><p>And the yard is being taken care of by a man named Angel who keeps it beautiful.</p><p>Jesus told the rich man to sell all his goods and give the money to the poor. I decided to cut out the middle man and simply give most of my stuff away to the poor. I have been carrying large things down the twisty stairs to the garage to find new people. Everything small is going on a table marked "Free - Take it" - They are. I need to get rid of 80% of our worldly possessions. It has been hard to see some of it go.</p><p>My neighbor next door got free from violence a two springs ago when we called the cops on her old man who was in the middle of trying to kill her or something. She had some rough days and then joined a Pentecostal church and is doing better. Last week she told me that she was using her spare bedroom to help women leaving violence, she came with a helper to haul away an entire bedroom or two. </p><p>Her helper is one of the women she is helping. Her name is Christina. She cleans and paints to make cash. She starts on Friday. </p><p>As Christina and I and the neighbor were laughing about providence. Two girls with Mormon Missionary badges came up and said " We see you might be moving - is there anything we can do to help you?" The five of us had an impromptu praise session and a brief bible study on the topic of riches. </p><p>This morning I was wrangling Orville's garden bench off the front porch.</p><p>A man was walking by.</p><p>He smiled at me and said "Woman, what are you doing?"</p><p>I said "What woman has always done. What ever needs to be done, with or without the help of Man."</p><p>He took the other end. </p><p>Beats me why my whiney lament seems to be heard sometimes. Beats me why it should be heard amongst the anguish of 50 million Ukrainians and a lot of others. He says He is with them like He is with me. Beats me. I'm rich. It is well known that the rich are clueless.</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-22946325401129969772022-01-01T09:27:00.002-08:002022-02-13T17:22:07.472-08:00All Hearts Clear<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%;">New
Year’s Eve 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%;">Salem,
Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">Some years I write Christmas cards,
some years I write a birthday letter, this year I am going to write a letter
and mail it to everyone who sent me a card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hope you are glad to hear from me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is my birthday and I am 64. Apparently,
they still need me, and are still willing to feed me. I spent the entire day
with, or speaking to people I love. Such good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am well, better than I have any
right to be. My children have grown into people that I admire and respect. I am
in love with my best friend, and she is here with me. I have a grand-daughter and she is the distillation of generations of strong women – can’t wait to see what she
becomes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">I
have been blessed beyond measure with work that is meaningful to me, continuing
with the school for teenage school rejects. But my favorite work this year has
been a writing project with a group of men you will never meet, writing a small
book you will never read. They live in the Oregon State Penitentiary and we
have been contextualizing the trauma healing work of Dr J. Eric Gentry for the
incarcerated population. They have been in lockdown for 22 months so we work for
about an hour, most weeks, whenever a chaplain has the time to get us a phone
connection. That work is almost ready. But I don’t think I will get back
inside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">I
was born on a cusp, a transition, the liminal point between years. I feel it
tonight. I do. We are on the edge of some big transitions. Early this Spring I
am going to lay down my work with the high school. We will sell this house – my
home of 32 years – and move to New Mexico. I am not ready to stop working, but
I am ready to do different work. We will live with Emily, Chris and Nia, and
have shared responsibility for the house. Nia is 13 - I look forward to being
her creative co-conspirator. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">Alivia
and I have retired from church work. We have spent the pandemic trying to downsize.
So much stuff! An attic, a basement, a garage, five bedrooms, a studio. Early
on in the planning I figured we needed to divest of 80% of the stuff we own,
and learn to live on about 40% of the income we have had these last few years.
The first part of that has turned out to be a lot harder than the second part. I
am attempting to wrestle a blessing out of the process. I am pretty sure this
is a spiritual process, maybe a spiritual discipline. I will let you know how it
goes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">Alivia will be in Albuquerque by Feb
20. I will be there mid-April.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">We can already receive mail at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">9920 Greene Ave NW, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, 87114<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright",serif;">Please update your Christmas card
list – Thanks - Peggy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Ominous</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Late, on the tenth day of darkness, something changed. I heard
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drops of water splash the pavement and then stop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
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<p class="MsoNormal">The tomatoes gave evidence. Tomatoes never lie.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I accept the promise of the first rain drops.</p>
<p></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-69830250483837448552020-08-30T09:29:00.005-07:002020-08-30T09:55:37.833-07:00Christ vs. Anti-Christ<p> </p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Christ</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">According to the</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> Sermon on the Mount</span>
</p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Those who are down will be lifted up. Don't worry if you are down.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">You are supposed to be effective.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">You are supposed to be noticed, but</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> don’t do it to be noticed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Perfection mean that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your inside and outside is the same.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Make peace! With everyone.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Get rid of whatever traps you.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Give without limits.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Tell the truth – all the time.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Love without Limits.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">10 Pray – simply, often and in private.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Forgive! Everyone.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Trust – it is the anxiety killer.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t judge, It makes you look stupid
and hypocritical.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Ask for help when you need it.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Treat People right, whether useful or
deserving.</span><br /></p><div>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Anti-Christ</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The exact opposite</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> - Line by line</span>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Make sure you are on top or appear to
be.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Appearing effective is more important
than being effective.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Being noticed is the most important
thing.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Have lots of secrets, Fear exposure.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Offense is the best defense.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Keep your addictions out of sight</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Hoard, if you do give, brag about it.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Lie as a regular practice</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Reward those that are useful, hate
those who are not.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If you practice religion, do it very
publicly, and only publicly.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Never let go of a grudge.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Trust no one.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Judge and ridicule those you fear or
don’t like.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Never admit weakness. Never
surrender, to God or anyone else.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Flatter the powerful – cheat, ignore,
those who aren’t</span><br /></div><div>
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<p></p></div>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-32260766016599723302020-08-22T09:54:00.011-07:002020-08-22T10:14:45.951-07:00There are 2 ways to live your life.<p> </p><p>Report from the Crack of Dawn Covid Grocery Shopping:</p><p> </p><p>I observed that the produce man was a professional. He was stacking his head lettuce like Tetris. Like in some other life he had been a dryrock master mason. Fitting them by shape into a perfect, vertical wall without crushing or deforming any of them. </p><p>I reached in, and aimed at the keystone head, dead center, low in the stack. I hesitated. His eyebrows shot up and he shot me a look of dismay as I threatened his perfection, but he said nothing behind his mask.</p><p>"Just kidding! " I said. and chose the top row left. He laughed. I laughed. </p><p>Its hard to get a laugh in the grocery store these days.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also observed a woman pound her fist on her horn at a red light that was, yes, taking a little long. She was first in line, and this wasn't going to speed up the light. God Bless Her. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just for today.</p><p>I am going to stack my lettuce heads with patience and intention.</p><p><br /></p><p>.<br /></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-68555124437569517212020-08-16T19:03:00.006-07:002020-08-16T19:03:55.178-07:00Me and the Postman<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ6cOuQvY1Zj4t0NQJ0ZYAsCuvotyQKvjZbRrC1Du4Dej0t0XI3c6ykIEJDmgnkRu3TAcRL0ymFCIY-_AXWlyFWRfAYsUI2JRFAGaGxg8J0lYfCFBWCbuOke8RBCXEAOkxkjSn/s730/usps-name-change-stamp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="730" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ6cOuQvY1Zj4t0NQJ0ZYAsCuvotyQKvjZbRrC1Du4Dej0t0XI3c6ykIEJDmgnkRu3TAcRL0ymFCIY-_AXWlyFWRfAYsUI2JRFAGaGxg8J0lYfCFBWCbuOke8RBCXEAOkxkjSn/w410-h230/usps-name-change-stamp.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p>Postmen have always been my friends. I grew up in a 2.5 floors up flat. I loved getting mail. I was a tyke when mom let me go to the bottom of the stairs and wait for our postman.The door was not locked. He was an older gentleman, gray haired, and dignified. He occasionally brought me presents. I don't suppose I was allowed to know, or call him, by his first name. But he was my friend. Now into my 7th decade of getting the mail, I have known many of postpeople. Some for years and years like the first one. Sear's catalogues, Christmas and Birthday cards (which came together) Bills I didn't know how I was going to pay. Surprises, like finding out I was in an old spinster's will. When my father was in hospice, and our guy brought what he knew to be pain meds to aid dying, he sat on the front porch with me for a few minutes, and he cried first. Now ballots for a couple of decades. The mail is dependable, regular, in my opinion it is socialism at its very best. <br /></p><p> .................................</p><p> Here is a repeat of my only blog post about a postman. Maybe my very favorite postman.<br /></p><p> ................................</p><p>
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">So
There I was...
Looking for a way through. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> I was motorcycling down a major arterial in my neighborhood. It was a
sunny, dry, morning and traffic was light. Stopped at the next side
street on my right was our local letter carrier. His name is Gerry. He
is a friend of mine. I always smile when I see him in his postal truck.
He is a good man and a good presence in our neighborhood. He knows me,
and my bikes. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">As I came up on him I smiled – I had my visor up. He was
looking right at me. I thought we made eye contact. I nodded my head
(can’t always wave on a bike). Then, just as I approached the street, he
pulled out – right in front of me – making a left turn onto the big
street. I had one nanosecond to decide what to do before I hit the side
of his truck. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> When you are in motorcycle safety school (and no one should ride without
this experience) they drum into you head that you must always be
scanning the road ahead for potential dangers and potential solutions to
those dangers.
The advantages of the bike over the cage (your car) are maneuverability
and quicker acceleration/deceleration. We can go, stop and turn faster
than you can. This is a simple fact of physics; much less mass, nearly
equal power. This saves our live – a lot.
One of our major disadvantages is visibility. We are smaller and your
brain is accustomed to notice cars and trucks, and often you just don’t
see us, even when you see us. This endangers our lives – a lot.
After alcohol and excess speed – both completely avoidable – the number
one cause of motorcycle deaths is a car making a turn into your
immediate path. This is unavoidable. But it is manageable. You make a
mental discipline of presuming that you are either invisible, or that if
visible, that the vehicle ahead will attempt to intentionally kill you.
Making this presumption, you plan you way of escape. There is always a
way of escape, usually more than one. You ride your bike in a manner
that makes escape possible at any time. Then you get to live. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> On the day of my near postal collision, I had four choices; none of them
really good.
1-Swerve left – in front of his path. He might stop at the last second
and I could scoot in front of him. I rejected this, as it is folly to
bank on his seeing me, when he clearly had not seen me to this point.
2- Swerve right – and try and go behind him as he continued his left
turn. This might work if he moved quickly enough, but it presumed that
he would not see me at the last second and hit his brakes. In my
experience they almost always see you at some point and slamming on the
brakes is always the natural response. I rejected this because it bet my
safety on his response. I like to keep my safety in my own hands when
ever possible.
3- Try and make the right hand turn. Move onto the street that he was
leaving. This could work if I did not have too much speed going into the
turn. It would require lots of lean for my cruiser-style bike. If you
fail, you go down into a slide, but that is preferable to hitting a
large object directly. People survive slides. I was wearing good
leathers.
4- Attempt the very fast emergency stop. If you are not going too fast
this often works. But if you lock up your brakes you slide, often into
the object you are trying to avoid. Going under a truck is not
recommended. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">There was not actually time to think through these options. These
options had to be wired into my sinews and nerve endings.
I attempted a combo of three and four. He did see me at the last moment
and he did slam on his brakes, coming to a stop completely blocking the
road in front of me. I turned to the right, leaned, and put the bike
into a controlled sideways slide. I stood up, foot on my back brake and
hand on the front brake. I was prepared to attempt to leave the bike if
she went under the truck. I sacrificed a lot of good tire tread. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">And I
stopped, facing to the right, parallel to the truck, right at Gerry’s
driver side window. I stood the bike upright. I had managed not to soil
myself.
Gerry looked down at me and said “Expletive, Peg, expletive I ‘m sorry. I
did not expletive see you! Expletive!”
I looked up and said. “Expletive Gerry! Good thing I saw you! You almost
expletive killed me! That would have sucked!”
Gerry: “No Expletive!” </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We were blocking traffic in two directions. He moved his truck across
the street. I moved the bike to the side street. We both stayed put
until we recovered. We did both recover.
This is yet another set of motorcycle truths that easily move into the
spiritual realm. Don’t travel so fast that you don’t have time to deal
with emergencies. Scan your horizon for trouble, but do it with a calm,
relaxed, open attitude – fear and panic are not your friends. Always
look for the way of escape – it is always there. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The Apostle Paul talks to the folks in Corinth about this. He says: “<i>There is not a situation that will test you that is
not natural and common. God is faithful and fair. You will not be
tested you above your skill level. With the test there always comes a
way of escape.</i>” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (paraphrase mine)
The word I have translated as test is often translated temptation, but
test or trial is also a fair use of the Greek. So is assay, like
checking the level of a precious metal. </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">This passage is often preached
narrowly as being about temptation to sin. And the ‘take away’ is – You
have no excuse for sin, there is always a way out.This is fair, but
limited exegesis.
We do not learn without opportunities to test and use our skills. But we
do not need to fear God as an assayer. God is not trying to catch us
being bad; God is a fair educator who is on our side. Giving us skills,
the opportunities to use them, and a way to survive and thrive during
the learning process. God made us, and knows that we have ‘the right
stuff.’ God wants to use that stuff to whatever level we will take it.
With God there is always a chance to retake the test.
With motorcycles, inattention can take away the re-test.</span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> So ride safe! Shiny side up, rubber side down!
Keep your eyes open and mind your escape route.</span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span></p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">. </span> <br /></p>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-29907472707472421692020-04-19T11:07:00.001-07:002020-04-19T13:40:57.136-07:00The Myth of the Apocalypse<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Lord Jesus, preacher
said you are coming real soon. <br />
Now would be a good time.</span></div>
<div class="Attribution" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">—The pre-math test prayer
of all Evangelical children</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Like all children raised
under the apocalyptic cloud of Dispensationalism, I spent a great deal of my
childhood alternately fearing and hoping for the end of the world. I was a bad
child raised by good parents, so the Rapture was particularly troubling, as I
knew they would go and I would not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Later in life, I turned the
fear into a standard Chicago-based joke. “People say that no one can predict
when the Lord will return. This is not quite true: I know exactly the place and
quite a bit about the timing. It will be at Wrigley Field. The Cubbies will be
about to win it all – top of the ninth, two outs, two strikes against the
batter. Then the trump will sound, and Jesus Christ will land on second base.
Because the Universe cannot allow the Cubs to win the World Series.” The repeated
telling of that joke, added a special layer to the terror-joy I experience on
November 2, 2016 when the Cubs won it ALL. When Anthony Rizzo caught the final
throw and tucked that ball safely in his pocket – I was liberated from several
curses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In my previous career as a semi-pro
religionist, I sometimes encountered Apocalypse rooters. These folks bill
themselves as proponents of glory. In my experience, they are often a bitter
and shrinking remnant of a narrow theology of judgment. When they see that the
world is not only failing to embrace their world-view but rapidly leaving it in
the dust, they hunker down into an attitude: “Just you wait and see. Jesus is
going to return, and </span>then<i><span style="font-family: Grad-Italic; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Grad-Italic;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">you
will find out how wrong you are!” Sometimes they pine so much for Armageddon
that they actually do things to try to make it come. They say “Come Lord
Jesus!” but what they mean is, “Come and prove me right!”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Then I discovered that
Christians do not have a lock on Apocalypse-rooting. I have met
environmentalists so frustrated that they rooting for Global Warming or some
other enormous disaster to prove them right, to bring dismay and destruction to
the deniers. Their Fundamental judgment and ire can match any
fire-and-brimstone preacher. They predict and pray for a new heaven and a new
Earth, where the remnant will survive and return to an imagined peaceful,
joyful, agrarian way of a past - that never existed.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What all world-enders miss
is the fact that apocalypses are as common as dirt. When Jesus wept over
Jerusalem and predicted its doom, He wasn’t being especially prophetic.
Anyone with eyes could see </span><span style="font-family: Grad-Italic; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Grad-Italic;">that</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Roman train wreck coming. Foreseeing the apocalypse
of Jerusalem wasn’t exactly hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Grad-Italic; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Grad-Italic;">Homo sapiens</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> seems to be good at wiping things out. Met a Neanderthal
recently? A Javan tiger? A West African black rhino? A member the Yuki Tribe in
California? We have seen the Rwandan apocalypse; our parents saw the Nazi
apocalypse. Maybe we learned this from Mother Nature – she did a pretty good
job on the dinosaurs. And now we are given a special lesson in viral Pandemic.
Tiny things you can’t see can wipe out communities. Name an epoch, century, or
continent that is apocalypse-free. Can’t.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The other thing that the
doom-sayers miss is that life so often finds a way through. Have you ever
witnessed a personal apocalypse – that of a serious addict who completely flames
out, then finds recovery, sobriety, and life? I have; it is a glorious thing.
Flattened cities build on the rubble. Ozzy Osbourne is walking around today
with Neanderthal DNA. We are told that the birds we feed in the park are
descendants of dinosaurs. Destroyed matter turns to energy and back again.
Stars and planets die and are born again. On some cosmic level, nothing is
lost. God built this into the universe so we would understand, and have hope.
Hope even beyond death.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Existence is hard. It is so
tempting when facing the apocalyptic to pray for escape, to pray for the
judgment of the stupid and mean. We all do it. But this isn’t Life’s way. Life
works through the stupid and the mean (including you and I) to find a way
forward. There is no escape from the tribulations of the hard work of progress.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Quakers have made a
theological suggestion about this: the idea of Christ, come and coming. I
believe that Jesus of Nazareth was The Christ. But you do not have to believe
that to see the Christ spirit in Him. The Christ spirit is simply Love, given
place and breath. This Spirit pops up everywhere, often in the most unlikely
places. It is most crystalline and transcendent in the ugliest of surroundings.
This Spirit is so strong that it cannot be put down. It is so pervasive that it
permeates all that is. The Anti-Christ is the futile attempt to kill Love. We
all have the choice to express Christ or anti-Christ with every breath and
every deed. When we cooperate with Christ and express that Spirit, we incarnate
it. Again. Perpetual Christmas Day. There is and will be no second coming of
Christ. What there is and will be are the infinite comings of Christ.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I hear the dread hoof beats
of horsemen as often as I am tempted to sin. I find Jesus at my side, sliding
off his white charger as often as I need Him. Together we root out the
anti-Christ in my soul and then move the lines forward. I find Christ
everywhere. I take the process of Christ-finding as far afield as I can, to the
places and people that the fear-peddlers judge. I hear the trumpet sound a
dozen times a day. Daring me to explore the depths of the Divine. Challenging
me to make God real to the very edges of my world.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Calling me to glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">. </span></div>
Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-28549862684456783192020-04-12T11:10:00.003-07:002023-01-08T07:23:40.500-08:00The Good Shepherds<div style="text-align: center;">
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</i><div style="text-align: left;"><i>
</i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(This post was written for Easter Sunday in the First Spring of the Covid pandemic -New York had Morgue trucks and Italy was hit exceptionally hard. Most of Christendom stayed home from church.</i>)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">We should not have to, but sometimes we must state the plain thing.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">There is one Good Shepherd, and many lesser shepherds. And there are wolves who wear a murdered sheep's skin as their clothing as an attempt to fool other sheep. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Sheep can be very stupid.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">But to tell the shepherd from the wolf is not hard. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">And the examples of each are plentiful.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">This Easter morning the sheep should all be safely in their folds with their lambs. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Good shepherds have encouraged this, and stand at the gate protecting. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Wolves have called them out into a dangerous field. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Wolves have no patience, wolves don't like to be challenged.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">They howl. A lot.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">They yell. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">"You are not the boss of me!" </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">"God is my special buddy and will contradict all the rules of God's very own natural world for me!"</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">"Anyone who doesn't agree with me - doesn't listen to me - is obviously not a buddy of God."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">What they really want, of course is to skin some more sheep. Because too much is never enough. And Easter Sunday is their biggest day of the year. Biggest crowds, fullest offering plates. The most people looking at them, and listening to them, while they howl their heads off.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">The good shepherds are standing by bedsides and in doorways, and are quietly talking on phones. Their patience is long. They do not yell. They do not lie, but they do comfort.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">In Italy, many dozens of priests have died, and more will die. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Hundreds have come out of retirement to do the hardest work in the wards of contagion.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">When they know it will very likely kill them. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> This is one such shepherd's testimony.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">“I blessed him and absolved him from sins, he squeezed my hand tightly
and I stayed there with him until his eyes closed,” the Priest said. “And then I said the prayer for the dead, and then I changed
my gloves and continued my rounds.” (NYT)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Multiply by thousands. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">The Priest knows, what I know, and what you know; that God will receive their souls to God's breast with love and care - with or without the Priest. But the Shepherd knows his flock, and when they were born - the church was there. And when they married the church was there. And they have always believed that when they died, the church would be there. And to deny them that would be a betrayal of the worst order. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">So the shepherd makes the round of his dying sheep. And lays down his own life. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">It is so easy to tell them apart.</span></span></div>
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Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-86391078816422579142020-03-23T16:41:00.000-07:002020-03-23T16:41:26.604-07:00The Myth of Isolation<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"> From 2007 (with updates)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;">So There I was...<br /><br />Lying
in my childhood bed, terrified. I awoke with the sense that something
was very, very wrong. The light was wrong. It was way too late in the
morning for me to be in bed on a school day. The normal sounds of our
household were absent. The teakettle had not whistled. That is the sound
that usually ended my dreams. The sound of my parents sitting at the
kitchen table reading the scripture and praying for each of us children
by name had not occurred, that was my normal ten-minute warning for
getting up. I listened carefully; there was not a sound in the house.
Then I listened for the sounds of the city. I was, after all, in
Chicago, there were millions of people out there. Then I realized that
the whole world had gone silent. There were no cars or trucks rumbling
down Harlem Avenue a block away. There were no sounds from the
neighbors. There were no airplanes in the sky. A city of millions was
silent.<br /><br />I came swiftly to the only solution that a child of
Evangelical dispensationalists (Darbyism) could come to. Jesus had come like a
thief in the night and had taken away every good person from the world
and I was alone in my family, unraptured. I was scared but not really
surprised. I wasn’t all that good of a kid. But then I thought about it
some more and wondered if my little brother might not still be sleeping
in his bed. He was kind of a pain in the neck, he might still be here. I
thought about how a couple of kids might try and survive the
apocalypse. I knew we were in for at least seven years of tribulation. I
wondered if I forged a note would they let me get the folks’ money out
of the bank before it was too late. I wondered if we could get to our
cousins, those people were Elvis worshippers and had just found out how
wrong they were – but it seemed like taking up with heathens might be a
bad idea just at the moment. I eventually decided to go and see if my
brother was present. I left my room and saw the silent empty kitchen.
The clock confirmed that it was past time to leave for school. No doubt
now. I crept into the living room and to my utter shock and amazement,
there sat my dad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;">
Looking out the window at the two feet of snow that had fallen
unexpectedly in the night. No work, no school today. No trucks, no
airplanes. A city silenced by God, but not robbed by God. I crawled into
my dad’s lap and breathed in the relief of the pardoned sinner. I was
not alone.<br /><br />The fear of being alone, temporarily or permanently, is
not just an irrational fear of religious children. The fear of being
alone is one of the most pervasive and destructive fears in our world.
It touches almost everyone eventually. It causes suicides. It fuels
addictions. It provokes people into crazy behaviors that increase rather
than decrease their chances of loneliness. And it is a groundless fear.
Because true isolation is a myth, an impossibility.<br /><br />Every major
religion teaches this. Christendom in its right mind teaches this.
Jesus said “I will never leave you or forsake you, not until the end of
time.” The Apostle told us that we are surrounded by a host of
witnesses cheering us on to finish our footrace. Angels manifest at the
oddest moments speaking the inevitable “fear not.”<br /><br />Science
teaches this. We are all really connected. The wings of a butterfly can
start a hurricane. There are resonances between particles at a distance. Nothing corner of the material world is or can be isolated from the rest.<br /><br />The
mistake comes when we use feelings to predict fact. Now I am all for
feelings. Get the full 96-crayon box of them and use them as often as
you can, but as predictors of fact, they are notoriously fallible.
Sometimes we feel lonely. This is the feeling that defines a craving for
more or better relationship. It hurts. It is supposed to. But if we sit
in the lonely feeling and use it to predict an isolated future, and let
that fear escalate, we will do nutty things. We will forsake our
integrity. We will medicate our loneliness. We attempt to latch onto
anything that seems to offer relief.<br /><br />Loneliness is a feeling
given to us by God to cause us to seek community. You may be unlucky in
love, but community does not rely on luck. It relies on initiative. You
have to get outside of yourself and your feelings and do something to
connect. You have to give, and be vulnerable enough to let others give
to you. It is hard work, but it works every time.<br /><br />You commune
with the past by living up to the investment that those who have loved
you have made in you, and listening for their cheers from the stands.
You commune with the future by investing in others and by tilling the
soil and planting the seeds that will feed and shade those who will come
after you. You live in anticipation of their gratitude, knowing that
you will take your place in the spiritual mezzanine to watch their
performances. You choose, by will, to live in the truth that you are a
valued piece of a great company of saints. You take responsibility for
your feelings and your life.<br /><br />The fear mongers of this world and
the spiritual realm would like you to live in the fear of isolation.
They want you to predict, and then live in, the lie that you are likely
to end up alone and scared. This will prevent you from making those
healthy connections with the past present and future that foil the
fear-based plans they have for controlling your present.<br /><br />Let us reject this lie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;">We
are not alone. We were not born alone. We were not alone before we were
born and we will not be alone in our lives or our deaths and we will
not be alone after our deaths. God is as close as your breath. The
saints are as close as the ear of your soul. Community is as close as
your outstretched hand. (or your keyboard)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;">. </span>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-67707600243125801862020-03-21T14:26:00.001-07:002020-03-23T16:24:09.243-07:00The Myth of Scarcity<h2>
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A repeat from June of 2006 ( with updates)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">So There I was...</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Twenty
years (thirty four) ago this weekend, great with child. I was awaiting the birth of
my second, and what would turn out to be my last, child. I was 28 and we
had an almost five-year-old daughter named Emily. Five years of
undiluted parental devotion had allowed this child to become confident,
precocious and fun to be around. We were confident of our parenting
skills. I was not worried about birthing this new life. My husband had
gotten a decent job with health benefits just in the nick of time. It
seemed that all was well.<br /><br />Never the less I was terrified. And it
was a fear that I did not think I could say out loud. I did not know
that anyone else had ever had this fear. I was afraid that it was
impossible to love another child as much as I loved Emily.<br /><br />Then
Laura Joy arrived. I took one look at her and my maternal love
instantaneously and miraculously doubled – just like that. Emily
suffered no loss of love and baby Laura received all that she needed.<br /><br />I
have since found out that this is a very common fear of second time
parents, but rarely a fear of third time parents. It is a miracle that
sticks.<br /><br />However, I think that this is an example of a larger and
more pervasive fear-based belief system – the myth of scarcity. This
myth says that there is never enough of anything to go around and you
better get yours while you can and hoard it as long as you are able.
This toxic belief creeps into every area of human existence and
relationship. It shapes government policy, haunts people’s dreams and
fuels competition in every arena. It says “There is not enough love,
money, happiness, fame, health, time, space, work, … for everybody – so
protect what you have, and watch out for those other guys.” It is the
absolute proximate cause of all jealousy, envy, and most strife. It is
the ranchers vs. the farmers. It is old immigrants vs. new immigrants. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">And it is absolutely, refutably, experientially <b>FALSE</b>.<br />I will give three examples; resources, time and love.<br /><br />There
are enough resources in this world. Sure, we will run out of oil at
some point. But until old Sol quits on us eons and eons from now there
will be sources of energy; sun, wind, tides, hydrogen, fusion, etc. We
will need to change. There is enough food in this world – there is no
excuse for a hungry child anywhere. There is enough work to do in this
world. The reason that some do not have enough, and hear me -- people all over the world are truly deprived -- is not because there is not
enough to go around, it is because what there is, has been criminally
distributed, and shamefully wasted. Communism is an attempt to address
this criminal distribution. It has failed – not because it is a bad idea
– but because the implementers, time after time, have been seduced by
criminal greed. Capitalism says that if you rely on individual
initiative and a free market that the distribution will be corrected by
opportunity and philanthropy. Capitalism has also failed because its
implementers have been seduced by criminal greed. And criminal greed is
almost always based in the myth of scarcity.<br />We hoard because we fear.<br /><br />Hoarding
is not God’s way. The Hebrew children in the desert were given one
day’s manna in the desert – the stuff rotted if you tried to keep it
over night. Jesus prayed for “daily bread”; reinforcing this concept
again and again. Don’t worry about next week’s bread, trust and work and
it will come. God’s way is to use what you need and share anything
extra with someone else. There is enough.<br /><br />One of the most
nefarious incursions of the myth of scarcity into most of our lives is
the belief that there is not enough time. That life itself is too short.
We run at a frenetic pace and wail at the lack of the 25th hour and the
eighth day. This belief rules many a life, and ruins the quality of
life. It is impossible to simultaneously savor and rush something.<br /><br />The
truth is that time is darn near infinite, at least from our
perspective. Almost every faith teaches that you, or at least some part
of you is infinite, immortal. There is something else after this. We
don’t know or agree on what that something is, but most of us believe in
it. And since this life includes the possibility of quality and
meaning, there is no reason to believe that the something out there will
not be at least as productive, and meaningful. Our sensation of rushing
time comes from bodies that age, and our propensity to chop time up
into tiny bits, so that they seem to fly by.<br /><br />What we do not have
is the ability to do two things at once in any really qualitative
fashion -- This from a woman who can multi-task with the best of them.
The truth is I don’t drive as well when using the phone, and drinking
coffee, and listening to music. I don’t pay as close attention to my
loved ones when I am preoccupied. I do not have infinite choices. I have
many choices, but I must choose how to spend my time, and the
responsibility flipside to the freedom of this choice is that I need to
relax about the things that I do not choose, and trust that the universe
will take care of them. When I do this, when I concentrate on one good
choice at a time, when I trust, then time slows down. I savor things,
enjoy them, and remember them better too. There is enough time to do
everything that I really need to do – because I do not need to do
everything. I’m just not that important.<br /><br />The most
relationship-wrecking, and hence human-wrecking, application of the myth
of scarcity is that there is not enough love to go around. We believe
that if the object of our desire does not love us, that no one ever
will, so we get pathetic or controlling. We believe that our friend
shouldn’t really have other friends because that will in some way
impoverish us. We believe that God is a worse parent than we are, and
cannot love all of us equally. We buy into the lie that God has
favorites – us, if we are arrogant in our fear – or them if we are
victimized in our fear.<br /><br />The truth is that love is the most
obviously infinite resource in this reality. It is renewable. It is
multiplicative. It easily trumps death. People who lose a loved one
grieve, but love again, without losing the love
they had for the one who has gone on to another expression of life.
Mothers and fathers love each of their children completely without
robbing the others. If we believe that love is unlimited and time is
unlimited then there is no reason for jealousy. We are given these
miracles to teach us about the truth of God’s love. God’s love is
infinite and so is ours if we let it be. There is enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">(this post is printed in Le Flambeau School of Driving - 2016 - on Amazon)</span>Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-37135572653027699712020-03-20T19:39:00.000-07:002020-03-20T19:39:14.641-07:00News from the Front<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There is nothing about social distancing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">or even shelter-in-place </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that can stop you from talking to strangers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">........................................... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I made one last trip in to the office today </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">on Rocinante.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I arrived at the almost empty college parking lot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Watched a car seem to drive around the lot as if lost. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was driven by a young woman, with another riding shotgun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They drove to the edge, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">then did a slow three point turn and came towards me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">only to pull into a parking space a little ways off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Then the driver got out and changed places with the passenger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Driving Lessons!" she called to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Hell of a time to learn to drive" said I,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"But major bonus points for that three-point-turn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and for your general hopefulness!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The smiled and waved, and left.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">.........................................</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the way home I stopped to top off Rosie's tank</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pump boy says "What do you want in her?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A full face helmet is also good for virus control.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So I shout. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Its the end of the world, Son - Fill'er with Premium!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Damn Straight! Ma'am"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">...................................................</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />From my front porch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Three young adult men on bicycles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">cruising the neighborhood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One is wearing a plastic Joker Mask</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(Heath Ledger version)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Nice outfit for the Apocalypse, Dude!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He laughs his best Joker laugh and as he rides by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I catch the sight of his Scooby Doo backpack.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"The touch of Scooby Doo, brings the whole thing together!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He lets go and gives me two thumbs up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is dusk now, and a couple of blocks over </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Someone is lighting some hoarded fireworks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here, halfway between New Years Eve and the Fourth of July</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What Weird and Precious times we live in.</span><br />
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<br />Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-1920234710164405792020-02-02T10:27:00.001-08:002020-02-02T17:39:37.463-08:00Sunday Morning Heresies - the freeway<br />
January 2020<br />
<br />
This is a report on my present circumstances.<br />
<br />
I continue to chase Jesus.<br />
<br />
It is my contention that the presence of Christ is paradoxical. He is both immediate and intimate for any who wishes this. And he is always ahead of us. Working in the world, asking us to join Him in his work. There are no Godless places, only places forsaken by God's people. That is where you will find Jesus most incisive. But He is fast, and there is much to do, and you have to chase Him, and I hardly ever catch up.<br />
<br />
From 1994 - 2012 I chased Him as a semipro Quaker. <br />
In 1995 I caught up to Him in Scotts Mills for a while.<br />
In 1997-2000 I chased Him around the Northwest doing family violence education.<br />
In 2003,7 and 10 I chased Him around Central Africa.<br />
In 2004 He slowed down enough lead us into a project in<br />
Christ-centered inclusivity called Freedom Friends.<br />
In 2008 I started teaching marginalized young people.<br />
In 2012 He whistled and pulled me into a deeper role working with 250-500 teens, many of whom were not only god-people-forsaken, but actively oppressed by evil.<br />
In 2014 and 16 I tried to describe The Chase.<br />
This description was mostly read by Q's and Xtians.<br />
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When you chase Jesus you have to travel light.<br />
You have to be willing to throw the sand bags out of the balloon-basket.<br />
In 2004 I left my yearly meeting and the recording certificate they had given me.<br />
In 2008 I slowed down my travel in ministry.<br />
In 2011 I gave up pastoral ministry<br />
In 2012 I limited public ministry among Quakers to one gig a year.<br />
In 2017 FFC lightened up significantly<br />
In 2019 FFC lightened up some more and <br />
I turned in my recording (again) and resigned membership<br />
<br />
At this time last year I sat down with the Jesus imminent, and asked Him what things looked like to Him. He gave me a very vivid picture which looked something like this:<br />
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A freeway exchange with on ramps and not so many off ramps, where it was entirely possible just to go around in circles.<br />
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I said "Is this me? or bigger than me?"<br />
"It's where you spend a lot of time."<br />
<br />
"Am I going in circles?"<br />
"You do spend a lot of time talking to each other."<br />
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"Is this message for me, or for others as well."<br />
"You asked."<br />
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"What do you want me to do?"<br />
"Wanna go Off-Road?"<br />
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"ok" <br />
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Almost immediately I had an invitation to spend time with incarcerated men.<br />
Days - I still watch for Jesus in a hoodie shuffling out of math class.<br />
Nights - I teach men who society has given up on.<br />
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And then I got an invitation from a group of these men to talk about bigger things than psychology.<br />
And there was Jesus, leaning over a table, with a group of criminals, drawing plans on butcher paper.<br />
The Goal? "Fuck rehab - we want transformation."<br />
<br />
See God may be omnipresent. But the devil isn't.<br />
And it took its eyes off some humans it though it had.<br />
dumb that. <br />
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<br />Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17932467.post-68389554234361532602019-09-29T10:49:00.000-07:002019-09-29T10:51:17.643-07:00Sunday Morning Heresies: The Dog WinsMark 7:27-30<br />
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Jesus was in the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon, pretty diverse country.<br />
And because he was beyond beat, he entered a house and tried to hide, for a day of rest.<br />
But the people were not having it, and found Him.<br />
And a Greek lady, with a very messed up daughter, came and begged Him for help.<br />
And because He was annoyed, He sent her away on a lame excuse.<br />
And because He could be kind of a jerk sometimes,<br />
He referred to her as a dog which was almost the worst insult He had.<br />
And she owned it, and shamed Him by saying even dogs get fed.<br />
And because He could be pretty amazing sometimes,<br />
He let her words stand, as she had won the battle of words, His best game,<br />
And healed her daughter from where He sat.Peggy Senger Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355325487919204489noreply@blogger.com0