Richard Rohr – Jackson Community Church

Reflections on beatitudes and blessings (themes from Matthew)

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing. — Rumi SONGS about BLESSINGS: Be Not Afraid by Bob Dufford (Christian): https://youtu.be/BltudBGj8dg?feature=shared The Blessing by Karl Jobe & Cody Carnes (Christian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp6aygmvzM4 Blessings by Laura Story (Christian): https://youtu.be/XQan9L3yXjc?feature=shared Blessings on Blessings by The Newsboys (Christian): […]

Meditation on seeing and blindness: themes from Mark. To what are you called to bear witness? When and how have you been blind in your life, and what or who opened your eyes?

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I’m just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren’t fully open yet. — Olivia Thirlby Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind … — William Shakespeare Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different […]

WISDOM Reflections – Theme from last week’s Proverbs text

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr SONGS about WISDOM: Sophia Sing to Me – Song about Lady Wisdom by Andy Rogers (folk): https://youtu.be/e-n8eNy_2Ww Only Love by Jordan Smith, covered by Fearless […]

Thoughts about staying, waiting, ascending and heaven: themes from Luke 24 and Acts 1

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Jesus raised our eyes above and beyond the narrow limits of our … lives, showed us other horizons, gives us a world beyond our ourselves. — Joan Chittister Blue Horses (excerpt) — Mary OliverThis […]

Meditations on Singing a New Song

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. — Richard Rohr A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. — Joan Walsh Anglund Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of […]