…am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. Then comes these words made famous by a slave spiritual: Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no…
…untapped right brain.] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi_pbD6lMXVAhUD1iYKHVYCD1cQ3ywIHTAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQTrJqmKoveU&usg=AFQjCNHUwK-wDX29tth094-5jyrY33lQrA [Optional: clip of Jill Bolte Taylor, “A Stroke of Insight”: link above. If you show just the few first minutes it’s enough.] Think of the amazing…
…Adam as they were being ushered out of the Garden of Eden, “We are living in a time of great transition.” Our relationship with God is the ultimate parent-child relationship….
…into the dust on all fronts —-personal, physical, financial, familial, communal-—through no fault of his own. It is a bad story. A nightmare story of how life is not fair…
…celebrates the Light coming back into the Temple that was “darkened” with disloyalty to God for many years. Jesus, the Light, has come into the “house” (generational and physical) and…