Gratitude as spiritual practice can be tricky. It's a bit like trying to help actors understand the difference in thinking about doing something or pretending to do something, and actually doing something. What are we truly grateful for? For me, gratitude is extremely powerful when you come to the place of awareness where your eyes …
How to Stay Astonished in Five Simple Steps
How's the old Kathy Mattea song go? "Standing knee deep in a river, and dying of thirst." My wife puts up with me, but it has to be annoying. "Isn't it funny that we ingest food," I say. Or, "It's so strange that we have these orbs in the front of our heads …
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Jump Starting the Words Again…
Okay. Just so you know, the few of you that come around and poke your awareness into my world, I have to begin just putting words down again. No structure. No editing. Just words. I've come to a bit of a frozen place, and I have to break out of it, so here …
You as Parable
If folks a thousand years from now preach sermons on your life, what would they walk away with... Those are the opening lyrics to a song I wrote several years ago. My reading yesterday in IMAGE journal reminded me of it by way of an interview with Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus of Old Testament studies …
Friday Night Lights: Sorry to See You Go…
That football sailing through last-minute skies landing months down the road in the arms of a future worth far more than six points and a ring: a new personal favorite story moment that encapsulates so much of what I loved about Friday Night Lights. I liked the first film, especially (spoilers ahead), the gritty ending. …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 