Wes Roberts

...one more from Henri:

...for this US of A Fourth of July weekend.......

"How to live for the glory of God and not your own glory?....
The first thing to realize is that you are the glory of God."

...p. 53 from the Genesee Diary

...dangerous?

...indeed

...and why not?

...thanx Henri:

The clowns don't have it together,
they do not succeed in what they try,
they are awkward, out of balance, and left-handed,
but...they are on our side....
Of the virtuosi we say, "How can they do it?"
Of the clowns we say, "They are like us."

Clowning in Rome--
Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer and Contemplation
...by Henri Nouwen--pp.2 and 110

...could not agree more:

...consider this

"To me, old age is always
fifteen years older than I am."
...Bernard Baruch (1870- 1965)

...breakfast anyone?

...come on over!

...would sincerely enjoy the time

...come on over any time!!!

...this could be it!!!

...ever wonder what the sky might look like

...when Jesus comes again?

...this could be it...or close

...taken on the way home from CSprings on 20 Ju '8

...love those Colorado sunsets!!!

...live with intention!

...one week ago we were looking forward to having Sue Todd and Jen Harmenzon arrive from Vancouver, BC, and this remarkable, quick, rich week is now drawing to a close as they fly for home tomorrow morning (...a couple of other blogs also mention our time...)

...so much has happened in and to all of us during this exceptional week of a mentoring intensive where we've all felt God's presence, healing, infusion, challenge and even the laughter and joy of the Holy Three

...these women are a gift in our lives

...they leave with a "thought box" with this inscription on the top

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...excellent read:

...for when you take some time out to breathe more deeply

...on this particular Saturday

...and as the first half of 2008 comes to a conclusion

...pondering at the end of this quick week:

...in the midst of experiencing our good friends (...who are with us for a week...) make some rich, deep, hard, good, remarkable progress within the process of DC/WLM

...I found these words at the end of this book

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big successes.  I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of human pride.

--William James

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...and the book was co-authored by this man and his wife.......

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...here's to some shine in your own eyes this weekend!!!

...who's invited for dinner?

Radical Relationship...

Jesus didn't want his community to 'have' a social ethic; he wanted it to 'be' a social ethic.  Their very way of relating was to be an affront to the system of dominance and power; it was to name reality in a new way.  They were to live in a new symbolic universe.  This radical idea is given in a simple clue found throughout the New Testament: Jesus' presence with others at table.

...from Jesus' Plan for a New World
...by Richard Rohr

...thanks to Inward/Outward

...to think about:

"Over explanation separates from astonishment."

...Eugene Ionesco
...as quoted in the beginning of Richard Rohr's recent book
...Things Hidden:  Scripture as Spirituality