The Other Jesus

A blog for the Other Christians.

                    

Archive for July, 2008

 Last night, something impelled me to get on iTunes and download some of the sweet soul music of my childhood, some of the Seventies songs by the Spinners and the O’Jays that first gave me a view of the emotional terrain I expected to travel in my life’s adventures. As I was listening again to […]

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Patience and Hope

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

 
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.
See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
 
I sometimes get labyrinths and mazes confused. People are always reminding me that what we have down in the courtyard at St. David’s Episcopal, or […]

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Walking in the Desert

Friday, July 4th, 2008

   
This week at Ghost Ranch I went for a long hike around the rim of the Mesa Montosa, a long, dusty, exhausting, and sometimes difficult climb up to the top of the 8000 foot mesa, and then a cross-country trek through piñon pine and scrub grass and shifting rocks underfoot. I hike up a trail […]

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