Start with a cup of coffee. Fast from coffee altogether. But pay attention, and let words mean something. To pay requires cost. Be quiet. Find the quiet in the noise. If no quiet can be found, then sleep, and dream of it. Breathe. Oxygen and its life are rarely overrated. Holding breath …
The Ten Great Blessings
On New Year's Eve, I glanced over an email from Bill Hybels, the Senior Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, in which he encouraged everyone to take time to count their blessings. He told the story of his own family, of their New Year's Eve tradition (if I'm getting this right) of sharing ten great …
Walking the Earth
Barbara Brown Taylor, in An Altar in the World, advocates walking as spiritual practice. She doesn't mean walking and praying as you go. She means walking and being quiet, paying attention. Some leaves hang on to the tree, curling up in a tight cylinder. Others die in tire tracks, leaving the ice in the rut …
Bearing Witness
I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory. From "Consciousness" -- Czeslaw Milosz To whom do we tell what happened on the earth, for whom …
The World of Experience
So my coffee-shop pediatrician friend pulls up a chair and begins to tell me again of Oliver Sack's new brain book called Migraine. Turns out it's not a new book, but still. Then she refers me back to an old book on my shelf called Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert. Neurons in the gut …
JEFF BERRYMAN 