The Beatles – Jackson Community Church

Reflections from Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon as part of the wisdom texts we’re exploring

I feel so much love over my soul, it is like an Ocean I immerse and lose myself in: it is my vision on earth while waiting for the face-to-face vision in light. [God] is in me, I am in Him. I have only to love Him, to let myself be loved, all the time, […]

Between miracles of feeding 5,000 people and walking on water: spiritual self-care and care for others, responding to need, addressing fear, refusing to be someone you’re not ..

You have been walking the water’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. — Rumi People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on […]

Meditations on freedom: spiritual and social

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. — Jean-Paul Sartre The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. — Coco Chanel When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. — Ralph Ellison We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at […]

Reflections on ravens: curiosity, creativity, and cultural messenger.

Songs about blackbirds and ravens (note: these are different species): Blackbird by The Beatles (rock)Blackbird Song by Lee DeWyze (ballad/blues)Raven Song by Elephant Revival (folk)Blackbird by Nina Simone (blues)The Raven by Alan Parsons Project (electronic rock pop based on Edgar Alan Poe’s work)Hear Me O God, Nor Hide Thy Face (Christian choral music)How Many Are Your Works (Christian hymn) — How sweetly did […]

Acknowledging the challenges of these times: responding to loss & trauma

Your hearts are troubled,and it is no sacrilege to let them be so …— Maren Tirabassi I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow.Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.― C.S. Lewis Your name is upon my tongueyour image is in my sightyour memory is in my […]