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Featured Upcoming Event
I Am Woman
Jeanie Miley
4-week series
Tuesday, 9 a.m.-12 noon
February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2012
Based onJeanie’s book Joining Forces: Balancing Masculine and Feminine, this series will explore the various masculine and feminine traits and energies that exist in every person. Lecture, reflective journaling and conversation will help us to understand the ways in which feminine energies and values are neglected in culture and often denigrated in persons. Meditation and active imagination will help us to recognize and access both feminine and masculine strengths, to know when to use which strengths, and in what measure to use them so that we can accept and live daily life as an image of God (Gen 1:27).
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
"At 2, we all have narcissistic tendencies. Infants and toddlers must be self-centered, in a way, to survive.
But, you kind of hope people grow out of it."
James Hollis, author and Jungian analyst
Like everyone else I've talked with about the movie Young Adult, I thought I was buying a ticket to see a lightweight romantic comedy. I left feeling as if I'd been knocked in the head with a machete.
I left knowing that I had gotten more than I'd paid for, and that was a lesson on just what narcissism and self-absorption look like.
For the record, it wasn't pretty, and it was neither romance nor comedy.
This movie is good enough in portraying that insidious self-centeredness that it could almost run as a documentary.
Of course, documentaries don't usually pack the punch that dramatic comedies to. Neither do they make as much money at the box office!
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they will give up their secrets also --if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver
This quote is one of my favorites and I've been kneading it into my conscious mind so that it will become part of the way I approach the world. Sometimes, however, confronted by some things that are hard, I give a little pushback and want to ask the revered scientist some questions.
Do you mean that anything, will hand over its secrets, Mr. Carver? Does that include my biggest problems, my most perplexing conundrums, my most difficult questions, or does loving scrutiny apply only to peanuts and people?
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