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✓ Some more prayer exercises
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Monday morning, Pastor asked me to pray about some anger management issues among our youth. Some have been somatizing their anger, e.g. having seizures; others have got in fights at school. Tuesday morning it came to me that I have already reported a number of techniques to use, in the previous post above. The new notions that came to me are here below.
It won’t be feasible for me to teach these to the children myself, since Youth Group meets on Sundays after the deadline for me to get back to the shelter. But some of them may be usable in Children’s Sermons.
Bootstraps
Psalm 150:6: “Let all things that have breath praise the Lord.”
At the homeless shelter where I stay, we’re required to attend chapel every night. Monday, for the first time in months, Jervis Ray preached. His text was Psalm 23. However, he was soon enough back to his same old same old, haranguing us that we’re not grateful enough for our “blessings.” “God woke you up in your right mind,” with the use of two arms and two legs.
He calls us to praise God that our bootstraps aren’t like others’. “There are lots of people in hospitals who don’t know where they are.”
That stung me, as my oldest brother will be soon enough in just that state.
Repentance and conversion
What did Jesus mean by those terms? Continue reading Repentance and conversion
Podcast — Contrasts and justice in downtown Baltimore
You get what you choose, whether you want it or not.
Contrasts and justice in downtown Baltimore
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Music: Chicago, “Saturday in the Park”
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Mike and facts
One never need face the ultimate authority. It is, nonetheless, in charge.
Podcast — Abracadabra
| ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE |
Abracadabra
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Music: Lena Zavaroni, “It’s only a paper moon”
https://youtu.be/GV0A-pQaay4 Continue reading Podcast — Abracadabra
“The Problem with Jon Stewart”
| “Every single white person upholds the systems and structures of white supremacy.” | |
| — Lisa Bond | |
Test: Can I discuss this without losing my cool (centeredness)?
7. Mooring oneself in What Is
THE WAY OF PEACE
| ← 6. Sales pitch | Home | 8. Heart and soul → |
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
When not at sea, a boat is normally tied, or moored, to a dock. The waves rise and fall, the winds blow this way and that, but the boat is stable and secured because it is moored.
The storms of life buffet us this way and that, and one can lose oneself in the chaos and confusion. Managing, coping, requires that one have some mooring somewhere. Some folk moor themselves in a concept, a dogma, such as Biblical inerrancy or the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church. Others moor themselves in the dogmas of an ideology, such as Progressivism or identity politics; or a cause, such as environmentalism; or even a romance (a particularly bad choice). I propose instead mooring oneself merely in What Is.
Everything else is subject to change or question or dispute. There is no disputing What Is. And the underlying principles, the principles that underlie existence itself, never change. Continue reading 7. Mooring oneself in What Is
Podcast — The Inky Dinky Spider
Resilience
The Inky Dinky Spider
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Music: Badfinger, “No Matter What”
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