Reading Kierkegaard this morning. Went to bed too late to be up comprehending Kierkegaard, but the great phrase "to will one thing" is on my mind. So I'm reading the online version of Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing, and am stopped at the 2nd chapter. Kierkegaard says remorse always comes …
Soul
So the new preacher started yesterday in rousing fashion, his lesson centered in the ancient Jewish commandment which is the centerpiece of the Torah, and reaffirmed years later by Jesus as the most important commandment. "Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord Your God with all …
Anybody Know How to Hear God?
Say there was a character who decided he was going to hear a definitive word from God or be damned trying. He saunters along in the jazzy rain, barely noticing the rain noodling in through the holes in his jeans, too lost in an imminently practical and frustrating question: how to hear from God? He …
Do We Need Each Other?
Anthony de Mello says not really. So I'm having this conversation with someone, on whether we need each other or not, and whether our happiness depends on anyone else other that us and God. And de Mello keeps coming up. I don't have his writings in front of me for exact quotes, but my memory …
On Jumping Up and Down
This is Seattle like I remember it, like I remember from the first days back in 1984. Cool September mornings, maple leaves two hands wide, the fresh watered air waking me as I loped down Mercer St. toward the Rep. New beginnings in a new school year, children dressed in uniforms (plaid skirts for the …
JEFF BERRYMAN 