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Love is the pursuit of the highest good of and for the other. (It was Thomas Merton’s work that first gave me these words.) This must necessarily come into conflict with our own desires and pursuits. The needs and desires of the other must, at some point, trump our own needs and desires. The …
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I mean –ness as in “a suffix denoting a state or condition. An instance of this.” Darkness. Likeness. Kindness. Lightness. Flower-ness. Jeff-ness. You-ness. The particular quality of a thing or person. This is my way of saying each of us has been crafted uniquely. Our particular mixture of DNA, circumstance and environment, cultural expression, personality …
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Read the post first, then click the image and listen to the song. It will make more sense... Listening to God is a strange idea. Seven billion people on the planet, all of them living and dying with needs, cries, joys, dances, and wars full of cruelties worthy of front page banner headlines. We …
Someone asked me yesterday just how big this "puzzle" I keep referring to is. First step, coffee, then working out. Frankly, it’s a big puzzle, a thousand pieces maybe, and maybe I don’t know what the picture is I’m trying to put together. But it has something to do with wholeness, with well being, …
I love roaming conversations about real things, deep life, and the questions that linger in the hidden places. When friends, new and old, offer up their treasured thoughts in a conversation, listening becomes an artful experience, punctuated by moments of shared understanding, common sighs, and inspiration. It’s been a week of multiple conversations like this …
JEFF BERRYMAN 