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Karen Hagen
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Who is Tippe? -- At Tippe, we believe in a spacious Christianity through which GRACE cultivates hope, healing, and purpose! Here faith continues to open up…to move away from cut and dry, right and wrong, good and bad. Tippe is a safe space, a brave place! An open and affirming community where everyone belongs! And, we're all accountable...in a life giving sense!
We are a community of communities where all are able to grow, ask questions, have doubts, and walk with others. Here, you will experience the palpable support of a community of believers, doubters, thinkers, doers, and pray-ers who together are changing lives and our greater community in visible ways!
Recall a moment in your life when all was about to change. Who were the people who supported you through that transition? Mary sings about dethroning the powerful and lifting up the lowly. In what ways does this song of Mary (the Magnificat) comfort you? In what ways does it unsettle you?
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What choices—made by former generations—have you inherited? When have our ancestors chosen the better way, and when have they not? How do we experience the consequences of those actions? In Isaiah 35, note all the images of transformation occurring in this prophetic vision. The prophet envisions a Holy Way where everything becomes more alert, more joyful, and more vibrant. What choices can we make each day to bring forth God’s Holy Way?
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What is the relationship between fear and wonder? In the face of fear, when have you been convinced to trust a new calling? Where do you see glimpses of the vision described in the Book of Isaiah coming to life? (In which God’s spirit intervenes, leading to a world of justice and peace.)
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What is the significance of names/naming in your family or in your life? How do people in your life add to the tapestry of your story? How is the complex genealogy of Jesus mirrored in families today? (What stories are given voice among blended families, families through adoption, or families who don’t know their ancestry?) How does this create room for your story?
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Do I live with a grateful heart? How do I express my gratitude? Where does joy show up in my life? Do I make room for it?
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How might I listen more deeply during seasons of change? Am I willing to obey the still, small voice within? Am I cultivating a discipline of listening and watching so that I recognize the messages that come to me through dreams, prayers, meditations, friends, or my own body?
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How savory are you these days? How is light finding its way into you and through you? Is there anything – or anyone – that is working against this, that is tipping a bushel over your shining? Might there be some part of you that needs revealing, needs to unhide itself in this season? (queries written by Rev. Jan Richardson)
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Who are the saints in your life? What might you say to them today? What have you learned from them & inspires gratitude in you? How might you be a saint in someone else’s life?
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Do I live as if I were aware of God's presence at all times? When have I had a sense of being nudged or led by God? Am I faithful in following my leadings? Am I supportive of the leadings of others?
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Do I sense the Law (blueprint) written within me? And if not, what do I do to open myself to the Spirit? How do I move toward the underlying truth within me? In what ways does that truth, reveal to me my spiritual gifts?
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What helps me accept and endure hurt without letting it degrade me and without passing it on? When have I relied on God for the patience to endure a difficult time? When I feel discouraged about the state of the world, what helps me keep going? In what ways am I endeavoring to face the evil in the world and to match it with redemptive love?
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What helps me accept and endure hurt without letting it degrade me and without passing it on? When have I relied on God for the patience to endure a difficult time? When I feel discouraged about the state of the world, what helps me keep going? In what ways am I endeavoring to face the evil in the world and to match it with redemptive love?
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At what points in my life has a spiritual gift been revealed to me? How have I faithfully lived into my gifts? What scares me about acknowledging and using my gifts? Am I nurturing the gifts that are growing within me? Written bulletin and message at tippechurch.org. Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com. Support this podcast via bit.ly/TippeTalkDonation. All content is the intellectual property of Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church.
At what points in my life has a spiritual gift been revealed to me? How have I faithfully lived into my gifts? What scares me about acknowledging and using my gifts? Am I nurturing the gifts that are growing within me? Written bulletin and message at tippechurch.org. Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com. Support this podcast via bit.ly/TippeTalkDonation. All content is the intellectual property of Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church.
What experiences of nature have been a balm to your spirit or have awakened you to a deeper understanding? How could you be more present to such moments? Recall a time when something in the landscape of your life suddenly shifted. What landscapes have offered images of holiness to you?
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What experiences of nature have been a balm to your spirit or have awakened you to a deeper understanding? How could you be more present to such moments? Recall a time when something in the landscape of your life suddenly shifted. What landscapes have offered images of holiness to you?
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What are you yearning for? In what areas of your life are you feeling frustrated or impatient? What enables you to wait? In what ways are you experiencing brokenness? What might forgiveness and healing look like for you? Written bulletin and message at tippechurch.org. Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com. Support this podcast via bit.ly/TippeTalkDonation. All content is the intellectual property of Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church.
What are you yearning for? In what areas of your life are you feeling frustrated or impatient? What enables you to wait? In what ways are you experiencing brokenness? What might forgiveness and healing look like for you? Written bulletin and message at tippechurch.org. Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com. Support this podcast via bit.ly/TippeTalkDonation. All content is the intellectual property of Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church.
Tippe is on a break for the holiday weekend. Please feel free to look through the list of previous podcasts and see if there's one that speaks to you today. Enjoy!
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What awakens praise within you? How do you acknowledge your gratitude? When do you tend to put your trust in humans who wield influence? Do you ask God to change your heart or the heart of another? Have you experienced a change of heart or witnessed it in another person?
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When do you sense the presence of God? What makes you feel known and seen by the divine? What do you do that sometimes holds God at a distance? When you are in conversation with God, do you put into words the painful and difficult thoughts and feelings that arise in you?
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When have you been grateful for change and transition? What about times when instead, you have been overwhelmed? Do you sometimes wish you could give back the gift you have received? What have you learned about yourself in the wake of upheaval in your life?
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What do you know for sure? What feels constant and true to you? What enables you to feel secure and allows you to notice the beauty and joy around you? How might you remain awake to the gifts surrounding you when the calm tends to lull you to sleep?
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What are you lamenting in your life right now? What are you lamenting for others? How might lamentation birth healing and transformation?
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Tippe is on a break for the holiday weekend. Please feel free to look through the list of previous podcasts and see if there's one that speaks to you today. Enjoy!
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How do you recognize wisdom? Do you pay attention to the wisdom within and around you? What truths does wisdom reveal to you? In what ways have you grown through painful experiences? What wounds do you still carry? How do you tap into God·s love when you are struggling to feel hopeful?
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How do you experience God breathing through you? How do you open yourself to the work of the Spirit in you and in those around you? What have you learned about yourself and others?
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What beginnings and endings am I experiencing right now? How might I acknowledge my thirst and turn to the Divine? In what ways might I participate in making room for everyone? When do I feel oneness with others? When is it a challenge to do so? How might I witness to the Divine in others?
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Am I aware that I'm one of God's children? that everyone is a child of God? When do I feel challenged to follow the commandment to love? Where has God revealed that the rules need to be rewritten? Am I open to the movement of the Spirit? How do I recognize the sacred in everything and everyone? Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com.
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Am I a grateful recipient of life’s gifts? Do I live with grace and lightness, joy and laughter? How might I recognize God’s presence? How do we show love – for ourselves, God, one another? What would it look like to: accept ourselves? acknowledge who we really are? be disciples? tend God’s sheep?
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In the midst of life’s struggles, am I awake to the beauty and joy around me? Do I notice all there is to be grateful for even as I recognize pain and suffering? Can I acknowledge doubt while embracing the mystery? How might I make space for the unknowable in my life?
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Do I hold on to the life I have known, or can I embrace the invitation to new life? What might new life look like? Where and to what am I being called? How open am I to being led by the Spirit in my daily life?
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What might it mean for me to be of the same mind with others? With Jesus? What can I do that would enable me look to the interests of others? How can I walk alongside Jesus? How can I remain present when on the path of suffering? What would it take to hear the stones shouting?
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How do I move from desperate and discouraged to praise and hope? How do I walk with purpose amidst twists and turns? Where might I find wholeness when my heart feels divided? Do I notice where the sacred dwells? How might I release fear and embrace love? What way might Jesus be revealing to me?
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How might I share in the Spirit with others? When do I struggle with the interests and needs of others? What enables me to share love more fully? What makes up the strong foundation of my life? Where have I built on shifting sands? How might I connect more deeply with myself, others, the Divine?
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In these days, what within you needs saving? When have you been saved by others? How might you be the one who saves someone else? How does the Savior of the world show up in our lives? What does Jesus invite us into? What are some things that we can trust in because of our own personal experience?
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What are the sources of fear in your life? How do you trust in God when God appears to be silent? When you ask God “teach me your way,” what might that way look like? What does Jesus teach us with his relationship with the disciples? His relationship with God? How might you live into Jesus’s example?
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How might I deepen my relationship with Jesus? What experiences of Jesus have I had that reveal the possibility of intimacy? How might my experiences and relationships shift if I recognize that the only “command” is love? When have I experienced a hand lifting me up? Offered my hand to someone else?
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What veils do I wear when interacting with others? With God? When I have an epiphany or insight do I share it? What might help me reveal to others what I am learning and experiencing? What experience or insight jolted me out of my routine existence and enabled me to see the world with new eyes? Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com.
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How might I release myself from worry? What would I do if I wasn·t afraid? When have I failed to see my own flaws? What helps me trust God and others, knowing trust offers no guarantees? How well have I forgiven myself? Is my inability to forgive myself interfering with my ability to forgive others? Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com.
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In your heart, are you experiencing wilderness or finding sustenance by the stream? What might help turn your heart toward the Divine? How might you open yourself to the gift of grace given by the Spirit? How do you live into discipleship? What would it look like to love as Jesus calls us to love? Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com.
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Can I quiet the noises in my mind to open for God’s voice? Still the chaos to allow peace? What might be freeing about acknowledging my brokenness? How could this equip me to live my gifts, respond to God’s call? Is there deep water I need to put my net into to bring up abundance God has in store?
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What might the Good News look like in your life? How might you recognize it beyond your own experience? In such challenging times, how do we honor the range of emotions and realities we are living and witnessing while opening our hearts to the possibility of liberation from such brokenness?
Does God know each of us? Does God appoint everyone for some specific work? Have you ever experienced a call from God? What has supported you in following that leading and what has made it difficult?
For the people gathered around Jesus in this text, what was so hard for them to hear? What might we need to hear from this wisdom teaching today?
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With the coming of this light
there is born in us once again the power of that night!
We are made able to resist our usual ways of thinking…
about ourselves and our world!
We find ourselves at the manger.
In this night’s holiness, we know
Love, Hope, Joy, Peace!
Like the Wise Ones, we cannot…
we will not return home the same way!
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Is it all sewn up -- my life? Is it at this point so predictable, so orderly, so neat, so arranged, so right, that I don't have time or space for listening for the rustle of angel's wings or running to stables to see a baby? Could this be what He meant when He said, ‘Listen, those who have ears to hear... Look, those who have eyes to see?’
Lord, tell me my life is not all sewn up and that there is still time for me to travel with Joseph and Mary... that there is still room for me in the inn...in the manger...this season.
O God, give me the humbleness and the beginning trust of Daddy Joseph and Mommy Mary who believed beyond the facts of life and lived into faith. His love, Her Love must have been great to have trusted so deeply!
Lord, shape my faith! Help me look...at my life...help me listen...to my life. Help me see and hear You above all else.
I so long for the “quite enough” of Bethlehem in my life! May this season be the Advent of me! Holiness, may I find renewal as I resist the ways of the world and lean into the Holiness of daily life. May I pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it! I lean into the mystery of Your presence.
The Advent of our Lord is now…US! Once again, Christ is about to be birthed…within us. And so it is: The season renews us, enabling us to recognize and resist that which is not life-giving, that not of God’s deepest desires for us. Yes, this season of living into the mystery is a blessing!
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Some of us…I…walk into Advent tethered to my unresolved yesterdays…the pain still stabbing, the hurt still throbbing. It’s not that I don’t know better; it’s just that I can’t stand up anymore by myself. On the way to Bethlehem, who will give me a hand? …make room for me? …see I have had quite enough? And...I know God sees me and is still throwing stars my way…if only I will open my eyes…and my heart to possibility!
So, when I begin to think I can predict the absence or advent of God, box the Christ in a stable in Bethlehem, rather than take the lid off His possibility for me…when I keep God out of my life and don’t take the hand of help offered me…the story tells me...that’s just the time God will be born in a place within me, and beyond me, I haven’t imagined and won’t want to believe.
I join those who wait for God watching with our hearts and not our eyes, listening…always listening...for angel words. Waiting with others is just what I need! I hear You calling me.
I so long for the “quite enough” of Bethlehem in my life! May this season be the Advent of me! Holiness, may I find renewal as I resist the ways of the world and lean into the Holiness of daily life. May I pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it! I lean into the mystery of Your presence.
The Advent of our Lord is now…US! Once again, Christ is about to be birthed…within us. And so it is: The season renews us, enabling us to recognize and resist that which is not life-giving, that not of God’s deepest desires for us. Yes, this season of living into the mystery is a blessing!
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In my heart lies a Bethlehem, an inn where I must ultimately answer whether there is room or not. When I am Bethlehem-bound I experience my own advent in His. When I am Bethlehem-bound I can no longer look the other way conveniently not seeing stars, not hearing angels’ voices. I can no longer excuse myself by busily tending my sheep or my kingdoms...only. Prepare me for Your coming. O Holy One!
In the midst of shopping sprees,
let me ponder the Gift of Gifts.
Through the tinsel, let me look for the light
of the Christmas star.
In the excitement and confusion,
let me listen for the hush of angels' wings.
This Advent, I long to go to Bethlehem as never before and meet You in the manger places of my life. May this season be the Advent of me! Holiness, may I find renewal as I resist the ways of the world and lean into the Holiness of daily life. May I pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it! I lean into the mystery of Your presence.
The Advent of our Lord is now…US! Once again, Christ is about to be birthed…within us. And so it is: The season renews us, enabling us to recognize and resist that which is not life-giving, that not of God’s deepest desires for us. Yes, this season of living into the mystery is a blessing!
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Holy One, too often my answer to the darkness is not running toward Bethlehem, but running away. I should know by now that I can't see where I'm going in the dark, shouldn't I?
Running away is rampant...separation is stylish.
Run and tranquilize, don't talk about it, avoid.
Run away and join all those who have already run away.
When am I going to learn, Lord, Christmas comes only when I turn and face the mystery of the darkness -- scary as that may be!? Only then will I be able to see the Light of the World.
This year let me do what Mary did and trust God to be in the unknown.
Let me do what Joseph did and listen to my dreams.
Let me do what the Wise Men did and go to worship.
Let me do what the shepherds did and praise and glorify You for all I've seen and heard!
I so long for the “quite enough” of Bethlehem in my life! May this season be the Advent of me! Holiness, may I find renewal as I resist the ways of the world and lean into the Holiness of daily life. May I pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it! I lean into the mystery of Your presence.
The Advent of our Lord is now…US! Once again, Christ is about to be birthed…within us. And so it is: The season renews us, enabling us to recognize and resist that which is not life-giving, that not of God’s deepest desires for us. Yes, this season of living into the mystery is a blessing!
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I have enough belief in the reign of Christ in this world to let Christ begin to reign in my life...allowing me to get up out of my bed this Sunday morning, give of my time, give some real money, help some real people…and really be helped myself! Christ’s reign begins with me! Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com. For a written bulletin and prompting, go to tippechurch.org. To support this podcast, visit our PayPal at bit.ly/TippeTalkDonation. All content is the intellectual property of Tippecanoe Presbyterian.
God, I know what it feels like to be "up a tree", to be crowded out, unable to get a glimpse of what’s going on. I want to see, I'm not sure I want to be seen. Not sure I'm willing to change. Help me, Lord, to hear You call out my name, to see myself the way You see me. Want to talk? Email tippetalk@gmail.com. For a written bulletin and prompting, go to tippechurch.org. To support this podcast, visit our PayPal at bit.ly/TippeTalkDonation. All content is the intellectual property of Tippecanoe Presbyterian.
So much is possible even when we're falling apart, falling down, falling over, falling for the wrong stuff. If we fall hard enough we may have no choice but to·fall to our knees. Cross over to loving kindness. Let go of fear·face the world with kindness
Lord, I close my eyes to not to see the tired, alone, lonely, sad. …myself ...pain, confusion. Close them so I don’t see You, Lord…see You encouraging me. I do want to see You. Pull me out of the dark. Come to me with light, in-sight! Help me cross that threshold to You!
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Unfortunately, this week's rerun is too old to have been recorded (2012!), but please feel free to look through the list of previous podcasts and see if there's one that speaks to you today. Enjoy!
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The Psalmist says, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest.” [God, there are times my life feels just like this!] “Do not be far from me, trouble is near and no one to help. I am poured out like water and my heart is like wax. It is melted within my breast. O my help, come quickly to my aid!”
Holy One, bring Your guidance to me as you have to those throughout the generations! I am here doing the best I can with the life I have. Help me know the thing most needed now so I can move my life forward! Help me trust myself to know what You would have me do. O Merciful One, this feels as if a threshold time! This is my prayer for awareness. O Merciful One, You hear my prayer.
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God, sometimes life gets so hard it almost seems as if you are conspiring with the “bad guys” against me. I try to live my life with integrity but get accused of wrongful things anyways. I feel life constantly tests me and I just need some relief and some hope. Lord, help me in my struggle reflecting upon why bad things happen to me even though You want only good things for me! I long to understand how You are at work in my life so I will know what to do next…so I will know how to have faith. This feels like a threshold time, Lord! O Merciful One, You hear my prayer.
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Happy Fall, y'all. You know what that means... the reruns have run out and we're beginning a new sermon series ·We're at a Threshold" Today's prompting "Salty Words For This Time· has us asking: At which threshold am I now? What am I leaving? Where am I
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “Finding Joy in the Journey...Now! Show Up Fearlessly Abiding In Holy Love” from May 2021. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/joy-in-the-journeyshow-up-fearlessly-abiding-in-holy-love
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Tippe is on a break for the holiday weekend. Please feel free to look through the list of previous podcasts and see if there's one that speaks to you today. Enjoy!
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “Finding Joy in the Journey...Now! Show Up and Make Love Real” from April 2021. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/joy-in-the-journeyshow-up-and-make-love-real
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Tippe is meeting for outside worship this week. You are welcome to join us!
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “Learning to Live “As If”: Our Passion’s Prompting…Wisdom For The Living Of Each Day” from Palm Sunday in March 2021. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/living-as-ifour-passions-promptingwisdom-for-the-living-of-each-day
You may also choose to watch the entire worship service as it was recorded live on Zoom. https://youtu.be/QkIponZpx9U
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “Learning to Live “As If”: Courageous Covenants of Love” from February 2021. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/living-as-ifcourageous-covenants-of-love
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “In You I Am Delighted” from January 2021. Unfortunately, there is no recording of this prompting. Please join us on zoom as we hear this message again or read the print version here.
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “Holy Mother, Hear My Prayer: Be Comfort-able” from December 2020. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/holy-mother-hear-my-prayer-be-comfort-able
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “Holy Mother, Hear My Prayer: Cosmic Change Is Coming” from November 2020. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/holy-mother-hear-my-prayer-cosmic-change-is-coming
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Tippe is meeting for outside worship this week. You are welcome to join us!
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Tippe is on a break for the holiday weekend. Please feel free to look through the list of previous podcasts and see if there's one that speaks to you today. Enjoy!
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “The Fallow Way: Comfort In The Challenge” from November 2020. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/the-fallow-way-comfort-in-the-challenge
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns but switch to an inward focus with “The Fallow Way: Tending Light” from November 2020. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/the-fallow-time-tending-light
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This Sunday, we continue our Summer reruns with “Day Two! Just A Glimpse!” from October 2020. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/day-two-just-a-glimpse
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This Sunday, we begin our Summer reruns with “You Can’t Skip Day Two! What Was I Thinking?” from September 2020. Even if you heard it "the first time around", you're not the same person you were then, so be prepared to listen for fresh insights.
https://tippechurch.libsyn.com/you-cant-skip-day-two-what-was-i-thinking-from-the-day-two-series
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Jesus calls us to "lay down our lives for our friends". We explore "who" our friends are in the eyes of God. And we explore the joy that comes in devotion to friends...those we choose and those God has chosen for us all.
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God, I know something about being pruned. I know what it feels like to be cut off or kept away from the people and things I love and are important to me. I bear no fruit when this happens...not for me, or You, or anybody! In such times, I often can’t feel anything at all, let alone Your presence. When life is cutting: How am I to live joyfully? …bear fruit? How do I know where to turn? …in whom to abide? How do I know what to choose? …recognize the true vine?
You say, "Come to me." Lord, I long to come. When life is cutting and there are many false branches blocking my way, please make a Way…please, come to me. Help me distinguish between the pruning the world does which diminishes my life and the pruning You do which takes me beyond the mind I have so I can think differently and accept uncertainty. I come…
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God, I thank You. You protect me, guide me, feed me, love me...shepherd me all the time whether I know it or not. You know me. You know I so long to lie down...rest...be restored. I walk many a dark valley and it often seems “my cup” is emptiest just when I need insight and energy most! In uncertain times I am counting on You to gather me around Your table!
Lord God, these are indeed uncertain times and often I struggle. I struggle to know how to be with those I assume to be friends, let alone my “enemies”. I am often running on empty, irritable or difficult to be around. Yet, You fill me up. You lead me if I will but hear Your voice!
Help me to show up in my own life and not to be “sheepish” about my life’s possibilities…to stay curious. Abba, help me to live “love.” This is my prayer, Lord God. You hear me.
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Sunday, April 18, we don't have a recorded podcast, but you may go to our website (tippchurch.org) and read this week's prompting.
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God, like the disciples, sometimes I too need the safety of going behind locked doors. I get afraid of what I think I know. Often I doubt myself. At times, I fear I will be found out, that no one will be able to understand my truth, that I will…like You…get nailed just for being who I am.
Can You blame me for wanting to hide? Do You blame me?
It seems the world is filled with those who claim certainty even in these uncertain times. Doubt seems reasonable and yet so unsafe! What else can I do but go behind locked doors? Is there some other way of surviving?
Please, answer me and teach me Your ways….of Peace….
Inner Peace laced with Hope!
Frightened and locked into the only way of surviving I know, it is scary to change and seek a new normal. Come to me like you did to Thomas, and let me touch You…so I may believe in my unbelief. Let me feel Your words, “Peace be with you.” Help me resist and begin again…begin a new life blessed with a new normal!
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Enjoy Easter...all 40 days of it! And all of us are on a break from zooming this week!
If you need anything, please email or text...otherwise, I and we will be on break. Worship resumes April 18th.
(Centering and Prayer will meet April 11 and Kids will Zoom on Wednesday the 14th.)
And, are you still feeling that Holy HUG from Easter Worship? I am!
And just for you, Sara posted our opening Easter Worship Joy video on our Facebook page for all to enjoy one more time! (It’s now also on our website.)
Be well...holding you into the light,
Karen
Holy One…we are so humbled and grateful…for we have been to Jerusalem and now…we move beyond Jerusalem…through the Cross…living into Your New Realm! We embrace a new, yet ancient reality: We are made resilient in Your love!
O Holy One…now is the time! The only time we have to live the fullness of life…in the “Holy Now!” We find ourselves in Joy! And that very JOY shapes our journey forward!
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Holy One…As we move toward Jerusalem, give us courage to reflect on our truest nature…our authentic humanity. For we long to embrace a new, yet ancient reality: We are made resilient in Your love, O Holy One, and able to…“Live As If” …no longer willing to be innocent By-Standers!
We enter Passion Week…Christ’s passion becomes palpable! Holy One, open our every heart…and wake us to wonder as we reflect on the power of love…now incarnate in us!
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God you say you will write your law within me and write your ways on my heart. But before You can write anything new on my heart, Lord, You will have to do a lot of erasing... I long to be free of the old influences and voices. Please do erase the old ways...but gently...so as not to remove even one more layer of my heart.
Oh, Lord! When I am honest with myself, I know it will be very hard for me to be freed to a new way of living. I need you with me Lord...for I may not be able to respond to life the way I long to respond. With an opening heart, help me recognize and accept the things I cannot change and have the courage to change what is mine to change…me! Take me by the hand so I will find it within me to live as if…even though. Lord, I ask it.
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Dear listeners,
Unfortunately, we were not able to create a podcast of our prompting for March 14, 2021. However, if you would like to read the text, it is available on our website tippechurch.org. If you would like to join our Zoom service on Sunday, please email Pastor Karen at pastor.tippechurch@gmail.com.
Complaining usually doesn't get you what you want! The Hebrews wanted to be rescued, instead they got…snakes! Oh, Lord...I'd like to complain about some things that aren't going very well in my life. I trust you are listening to me, but could You just hold off with the snakes a bit? I’m pretty weary.
When they come, what will my snakes be? What is biting me, frightening me? Lord, help me look my life right in the face and see the consequences of my own choices...as …the consequences of my own choices. Help me recognize my antidote…the thing most needed now. Help me find the courage to live “As If” this is not the end but the beginning of a new me. Lord, I ask it. Want to talk more? Email us at tippetalk@gmail.com.
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When I look to You, Lord, Your wisdom revives my whole being! Let me lean into Your wisdom and rejoice in the relief it brings! I clearly see what it is You want for me if I will only trust myself to go for it! Help me see my hidden faults through the lens of Your love. Help me keep my pride from getting in my way! Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You.
Lord, help me live with my heart wide open.
To live “As If” even though.
In this Mad World You are my rock and my redeemer!
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Holiness, I do believe…as best I can. I am striving to live “As If” You were right beside me in the choices I make every day. But sometimes I am frantic and flustered and afraid.
Lord God, help me remember it is not so much what I believe but how I choose to live that will see me through these times. Help me get “the devil” behind me, putting things in my life in the right order, creating possibly for the day with You.
As I live “As If” you are beside me and my name has been changed, everything changes. Lord, help me keep my heart wide open so I create possibility in each moment. Lord, I ask it.
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As a Christian, I am called to live "as if" the divine energies of love and compassion inhabit each moment of each day. The Child of Humanity implores me to live in the Realm of God. A divinely, rightly ordered kingdom oriented around truth, loving kindness, right relationships, justice…
Imagine! Easter every day!
What would my personal life look like if love truly reigned, and what would my relationships look like if I took time to orient around loving kindness, and what would my relationship with Earth look like if I realized my kinship with all creatures and nature, and what would the social systems in which I live look like if they were oriented around justice?
What possibilities would I create if I live “as if” each day!
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Jesus calls us to self-confidence knowing everything is within us…everything known. Jesus calls us to move out of binary thinking away from categories and labels. Jesus calls us to be One.
It’s not so much what we say we believe, but how we “live” what we truly “believe”. It’s about living as if the realm were right before us. And, it is!
Living “As If” creates possibility changing the present and the future. There is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide for wherever you go, there you are. There is nothing to be afraid of except…fear itself. And, we know both fear and joy stream from an experience of awe. The choice to find joy or be in fear…is ours. So, lean into the awe, the possibility of the moment.
Live “As If.” Keep your heart wide open.
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You know, God, unlike Paul, I don’t feel very comfortable going out and confronting people even if it’s with good news…let alone the gospel’s news. I am very often uncomfortable sharing the gospel with others…even with those in my inner circle.
Well, actually, when Paul confronted…when he shared…he only used words when necessary! He was with the people in their churches and lives and shared the gospel by living it with them.
Paul got to know each one well enough to know their needs and then did something to support them rather than convince them. Paul brought to each person the part of the faith story each person most needed to hear.
Is this what You would have me do?Come alongside people to live the gospel with them?
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I could use some information, Lord. What I could really use is some inspiration.
You see, there are so many false idols calling out to me. They are hard to resist. These idols, these “isms” of our day try to convince me I am better off when I give in to them, than I am when I resist them.
The biggest stumbling block I have in my life…is me. With Your help, I’d like to surrender my pride and come to You in the full knowledge of my need to go beyond the mind I have. I do indeed need some inspiration. And the courage to go with it!
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These are fish stories. Stories of Empire and our sometimes struggle with conscience and choices. These stories coach us in ways to handle our anxiety. What happens next depends exactly on that and our tendency to overthink things which often immobilizes us.
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The spirit of Advent is one of longing…longing for more, for other…for we know deeply…there must be more. Surely God is not done with creation yet. We know…we cannot make it through on our own…to figure it out, fix what is broken, address the myriad needs we see. So there exists this longing…perhaps…more…a sacred trust.
In Advent, we give ourselves…perhaps hesitantly at first but then more fully…give ourselves to Holy possibility. We journey into Advent as faithfully as we are able. We only move forward…together. This is our prayer and an affirmation of the love of God for each of us, all of us. This is ADVENT’s hope, love, joy, peace.
Joseph dreams and Mary sees angels. What are you dreaming about these days? If an angel came to you in your dreams, what words would you hope to hear?
You are invited, held in the arms of an angel, to dream and boldly respond to the angel’s proclamation being born in you.
Remember Mary’s wisdom…to look beyond today’s reality and rejoice as we imagine a world in which everyone can live into God’s vision altogether.
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The spirit of Advent is one of longing…longing for more, for other…for we know deeply…there must be more. Surely God is not done with creation yet. We know…we cannot make it through on our own…to figure it out, fix what is broken, address the myriad needs we see. So there exists this longing…perhaps…more…a sacred trust.
In Advent, we give ourselves…perhaps hesitantly at first but then more fully…give ourselves to Holy possibility. We journey into Advent as faithfully as we are able. We only move forward…together. This is our prayer and an affirmation of the love of God for each of us, all of us. This is ADVENT’s hope, love, joy, peace.
I wonder, given today’s readings, if God is thinking: “Oh Human Being, be glad you are here… right there where you are. I am with you. Please…don’t rush ahead…in search of Christmas. Don’t rush! You’ll miss it…the Advent of something new coming into your world.”
Advent isn’t passive… It is about living a transforming life even while waiting eagerly, expectantly…to be even further transformed!
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The spirit of Advent is one of longing…longing for more, for other…for we know deeply…there must be more. Surely God is not done with creation yet. We know…we cannot make it through on our own…to figure it out, fix what is broken, address the myriad needs we see. So there exists this longing…perhaps…more…a sacred trust.
In Advent, we give ourselves…perhaps hesitantly at first but then more fully…give ourselves to Holy possibility. We journey into Advent as faithfully as we are able. We only move forward…together. This is our prayer and an affirmation of the love of God for each of us, all of us. This is ADVENT’s hope, love, joy, peace.
Sometimes it seems life is a roller coaster…all highs and lows…while we long for the smooth, straight way through… Changing your line of vision, the line you’re feeding yourself, you could fill in those woesome valleys in your life… Grounded in new possibilities held within God’s strong arm, Holy Mother holding your hand, from which pretense or assumption might you be released?
We can find comfort. We can offer comfort. We are comfort-able!
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The spirit of Advent is one of longing…longing for more, for other…for we know deeply…there must be more. Surely God is not done with creation yet. We know…we cannot make it through on our own…to figure it out, fix what is broken, address the myriad needs we see. So there exists this longing…perhaps…more…a sacred trust.
In Advent, we give ourselves…perhaps hesitantly at first but then more fully…give ourselves to Holy possibility. We journey into Advent as faithfully as we are able. We only move forward…together. This is our prayer and an affirmation of the love of God for each of us, all of us. This is ADVENT’s hope, love, joy, peace.
A cosmic change is coming!
It comes…even as we are tired and weary of more changing.
Through God’s action…not by our own initiation,
change comes to us for God wants more for us!
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As fall fades and the cusp of winter nears, we enter a fallow time...in mother nature and in our human nature. In nature, the fields lay fallow - not planted and covered by snow. Snow that contains the nitrogen the soil needs for new life to grow. So the plant roots actively continue to grow, imbibe the richness of the soil…made possible in fallowness. And this bears fruit! Literally, in the right timing: spring.
The Fallow Way in our human nature is a time when God invites us to enter into God’s ways of enriching ourselves with holy rest and holy restoration…taking in what we most need now…knowing this bears much fruit in our right timing, too…a conscious time restoring and preparing us as internal seasons of winter and, so then, spring come.
When we embrace the Fallow Way, there is precious work unfolding beneath the surface of things with real consequence.
Holy One, I hear You. There’s a goat in me - when I don’t tend to the least of these (who are hungry, thirsty, the stranger, naked) for they…are You. We are One. But, there is a sheep in me too…for there are times when I have done these things, willing to see You in the human being before me. In those times…in them, I see myself as well as You. Help me sort out my inner sheep from my inner goat and live within Your fold.
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As fall fades and the cusp of winter nears, we enter a fallow time...in mother nature and in our human nature. In nature, the fields lay fallow - not planted and covered by snow. Snow that contains the nitrogen the soil needs for new life to grow. So the plant roots actively continue to grow, imbibe the richness of the soil…made possible in fallowness. And this bears fruit! Literally, in the right timing: spring.
The Fallow Way in our human nature is a time when God invites us to enter into God’s ways of enriching ourselves with holy rest and holy restoration…taking in what we most need now…knowing this bears much fruit in our right timing, too…a conscious time restoring and preparing us as internal seasons of winter and, so then, spring come.
When we embrace the Fallow Way, there is precious work unfolding beneath the surface of things with real consequence.
How do we be God’s people in the real world?
We need a heart “attack”… a new heart beat and rhythm and alignment.
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As fall fades and the cusp of winter nears, we enter a fallow time...in mother nature and in our human nature. In nature, the fields lay fallow - not planted and covered by snow. Snow that contains the nitrogen the soil needs for new life to grow. So the plant roots actively continue to grow, imbibe the richness of the soil…made possible in fallowness. And this bears fruit! Literally, in the right timing: spring.
The Fallow Way in our human nature is a time when God invites us to enter into God’s ways of enriching ourselves with holy rest and holy restoration…taking in what we most need now…knowing this bears much fruit in our right timing, too…a conscious time restoring and preparing us as internal seasons of winter and, so then, spring come.
When we embrace the Fallow Way, there is precious work unfolding beneath the surface of things with real consequence.
What is it within you that needs tending? What is the light needed in your life so you can see who you deeply “be” and where you are going?
How you “tend the light” may make all the difference in a day, and in your life!
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Our lives have many stories running through them concurrently: daily lives and long-term intentions, our projects and goals, relationships with different people. And each story has a process or a storyline: a beginning, a middle, and an end. So, three acts: a Day One, Day Two, Day Three.
Oh Lord! I’m carrying around a lot of stones! If these stone I carry could only speak, they would name my burdens and questions and doubts. I have come a long way, stones and all…sometimes it’s just hard to keep on going. Help me cross over to another point of view. Help me glean the wisdom of my life’s stones. Give me the energy to follow the best I can…as a new person in a new promised land…re-formed.
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Our lives have many stories running through them concurrently: daily lives and long-term intentions, our projects and goals, relationships with different people. And each story has a process or a storyline: a beginning, a middle, and an end. So, three acts: a Day One, Day Two, Day Three.
Well then, if it wasn’t all about Moses, I suppose it’s not all about us either. It’s not about me, you. It’s not about this/that family. It’s not about this church. I guess it’s not about how well our leaders are doing, or not… how well we are doing, or not… But then, what is it all about? Wow…what a Day 1 emotional quandary!
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Our lives have many stories running through them concurrently: daily lives and long-term intentions, our projects and goals, relationships with different people. And each story has a process or a storyline: a beginning, a middle, and an end. So, three acts: a Day One, Day Two, Day Three.
We are invited into Day 2 and risk the consequences rather than waste time trying to find what is the impossible: a solution that has no consequences! Will you open the storyline…be curious, vulnerable, courageous? Are you willing to look at things differently?
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Our lives have many stories running through them concurrently: daily lives and long-term intentions, our projects and goals, relationships with different people. And each story has a process or a storyline: a beginning, a middle, and an end. So, three acts: a Day One, Day Two, Day Three.
Day 2 is a scary place at times. You just don’t know what will come next but you do know…it is coming (you can’t turn back…the clock) and you have a say in what will come next. The way you tell yourself this story matters! You can’t skip day 2!
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What are some of the new understandings you are discovering that are lighting a fire within you?
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What once thought dead within you…is being resurrected? Where do you find your thoughts are taking you?
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In today’s Wisdom Teachings we hear the stories of how God appears to both Mary and Joseph as in a dream, through the vision of an angel. Like them, things are yet to be revealed and we either make space for a new possibility…or we don’t. Are you, like them, willing to dream a new dream? Please,
Come! O Come away to the manger with us!
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This Advent: O Come! It’s Advent…a time to come, O Do Come…as Emmanuel readies to come…be One with us…again!
In today’s Wisdom Teachings is revealed God’s depth of care for each of us and all of us. And a way through what seems overwhelming at times. We shall not be lead astray as we deeply engage with each other’s needs and our shared wisdom! So, Come! O Come away to the manger with us!
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In today’s Wisdom Teachings, we are reminded we can “come to the manger” because we are rooted in hope and watered with love. Each of us prepares in our own way...always remembering our faith gives us what the world cannot...hope, peace, joy, and love. These are the movements of Advent set against the background of purpled waiting. The stories all assure us God's future for us is steeped in goodness, and so the waiting is not idle, but faith-filled. So, Come! O Come!
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In today’s Wisdom Teachings we hear of a promise and a way to let ourselves be taken…with the Advent of something new! And so be able to come…to give ourselves anew! The timing is ours to choose!
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In today’s Wisdom Teachings, we are invited to look for the deeper truth just below the turbulence of His time…and ours! Are things really so different when truth speaks to power today? Is there another way? Yes! Jesus shows us the way…through!
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In today’s Wisdom Teachings, we are challenged to choose wisely, to choose…life! We do not have permission to squander even one moment, one day. Rather, we are invited to live now and fully! Listen for God’s word just for you today!
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In today’s Wisdom Teachings, we come to understand the difference between pleasing God and God’s being delighted in us…a difference that makes all the difference! We celebrate the Baptism of Our Lord and the mysterious new life that is ours as we immerse ourselves in the blessings God continually pours over us.
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Today’s Wisdom Teachings speak to us. Actually, God in the prophet’s voice speaks to dem dry bones, Jesus speaks to a bound-up Lazarus, and the Spirit speaks to each of us - we need each other. What one has, the other needs. This is the way through turbulence. And it’s the truth!
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Turbulence, hard times, come…even when life seems to be living “good”. Chaotic changes may come to our door and we sigh, hard times…please come no more! Still, we know the depth of the “waves” this uninvited turbulence can create in our lives. We usually doubt at first that we will be able to cope. But then we remember and we know deeply at our core, turbulence is “truth” there’s no way to ignore. And it is often that very commotion…that truth, held in holiness, which brings wholeness to life and even joy.
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In Today’s Wisdom Teaching we are invited to reflect upon our own rebuilding process. Are we focusing on the right stuff? Are we ready for a new life possibility? Do we "be" heart people or head people?
We've spent a lifetime being taught to and practicing living from our heads. to problem-solve our way through life by better thinking. Thoughts spinning around in our heads, us spinning around in our lives. Often, lots of drama results…draining our energy!
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything! Listen to this autobiography in 5 short chapters…a story of moving from being a child of this cultural generation to a child of the light...as Jeremiah says.
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What once thought dead within you…is being resurrected?
Where do you find your thoughts are taking you?
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How have you come this day…what of Easter lingers?
What once thought dead within you…is being resurrected?
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What are you looking for?
Seek and Find…A Spiritual Scavenger Hunt!
On this day, I looked around and found…
And on this day, I looked within and discovered…
On this Easter day,
I look and see how beloved I am.
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In today’s Wisdom Teachings, we are invited to look for the deeper truth just below the turbulence of His time…and ours! Are things really so different when truth speaks to power today? Is there another way? Yes! Jesus shows us the way…through!
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Today’s Wisdom Teachings, speak to us. Actually, God in the prophet’s voice speaks to dem dry bones, Jesus speaks to a bound-up Lazarus, and the Spirit speaks to each of us - we need each other. What one has, the other needs. This is the way through turbulence. And it’s the truth!
Today’s Wisdom Teachings, lead us to talk with God about our own blindness…our lack of awareness around ourselves, others, and the turbulent situations in which we find ourselves! Ah…are we willing to see truth in the midst of turbulence?
“Turbulence…Along The Way!”
Lent is the time we turn toward that which has meaning in our lives…watching what drops away as we do. We follow in the ways of Jesus …turbulence and all. We are becoming new human beings.
In today’s Wisdom Teachings, we see God offering fullness of life in unconventional ways to people who are facing scarcity, suffering, and exclusion. God offers water, living waters. The people are asked, we are asked, to consider what it is that is really life-giving right through our turbulent lives. We are to be “concerned with ourselves”! Truth in the midst of turbulence.
“Turbulence…Along The Way!”
Lent is the time we turn toward that which has meaning in our lives…watching what drops away as we do. We follow in the ways of Jesus …turbulence and all. We are becoming new human beings.
In today’s Wisdom Teachings, we hear how the psalmist trusts, how Nicodemus questions, and how Jesus invites us to belong, to be saved, born again and again! Truth in the midst of turbulence.