Working on a real Business type letter
Tune in tomorrow..I must go out tonight to be with my spiritual family. Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Open Letter to the Bishops of all Churches: A Whole Different Approach
Dear Bishops of All Churches Everywhere, I submit my annual report as representative of the outcast society of the world. I live among and as one of the hidden ones who have no church home (actually, I do, but not within the Episcopal fold), and whom, the church triumphant, refuses to look at or open to. We are not complaining, but rather, merely offering this years report. Many of us awoke this year to the real Presence of The Almighty One. We discovered that we have had nothing from which we... Sign in to see full entry.
Dear Bishop: a trial letter
Dear Bishop, Peace be with you, from God our __________ and the Lord, Jesus Christ. I am a priest under your canonical authority, even though we have yet to meet in the flesh. I wrote to you a month or two ago, but have heard nothing back. Perhaps you were merely awaiting my phone call to set up a face to face appointment. Perhaps my last correspondence was lost in the bustle of your office and duties. Let me be candid, I feel that the way the church treats her priests is fundamentally... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 17, 2004
Klara & I Are engaged
in a lively discussion here. She has offered excellent advice both here and on her blog. I feel compelled to discuss some of her suggestions and the responses I trigger. I am getting a clear preference for a gentle, quiet, but strong communication. Please recall, that I have never met this Bishop. I can however get to know him somewhat by reading his writings on the diocesan website. This I shall do. I recall, my first email to him was rather vague and general, introducing myself and asking for... Sign in to see full entry.
An Open Letter to My New Bishop
Some of you may already know from reading previous posts, that I am an ordained Episcopal priest. What you may not know is that I have been non-parochial for almost 20 years. This is a fancy way of saying that I have been wandering around the wilderness of this land with no Bishop's supervision and no formal church for almost twenty years. Recently, I emailed my new Bishop (he has never met me). To my suprise, I have heard nothing back. I think my church has decided to ingnore me so I might go... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 6, 2004
I am Still Here
Hi All, I am still here. I have been temporarily disconnected from the web, but through friends and public access, I shall endeavor to at least write a little. Soon I shall have a more perminant and self focused solution in KC, Mo. So do not leave or forsake me, I shall return in the full glory of my Muses. Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
The Blessings of Poverty of Self
Do you know how happy a person with no egoself can have? First, some definitions: egoself = a patterned collection of small programs that define for the biocomputer an identity by function, feeling, or belief. poverty = percieving lack of identity (from the old programming still stored in memory in the human biocomputer) blessings = anything seen through and with Love Think about these definitions for a moment. Do you agree with them? Do you understand them? Do they interest you and stimulate... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, October 25, 2004
The Blessings of Poverty
On one level, I am tired of poverty. Many years ago, I chose to leave a full time job teaching computers at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I was going to go live on the North Shore and become a writer. Now, here I am in Missouri after having lived in Arkansas and Oklahoma. And I hve lived on the edge of poverty the whole while. For the most part, I have been very happy (with exception of some serious depressions along the way). I have known a freedom that eludes most. I have always had food to... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, October 24, 2004
I did send an email to the President
OK, I got inspired and sent the President an email. Here is the initial response I received: Your are receiving this message because we are having a problem processing your confirmation. Either the e-mail address from which you confirmed is not the same as the address that you entered on the www.whitehouse.gov request form or you did not return the correct ID in your confirmation's subject. Your request can not be completed unless your addresses match and your ID in the form (IDnnnnnnnnnnnnnn)... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Introducing The Bowl of Saki
WHEN ONE IS SEPARATED FROM GOD IN THOUGHT, BELIEF IS OF NO USE, WORSHIP IS OF LITTLE USE. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis: Just as in electricity there must be a circuit that current may flow, so in the divine life on a much greater scale must there be a circuit. By cutting God asunder, by making God in one's mind as something different, something apart, there can be no worship; there can be no love. Love unites, and the worship of a tree or flower may contain more of... Sign in to see full entry.