I’ve begun to make a list. On this list is classes and practices for specific circumstances and situations. Some of the things that people don’t ever want to talk about, are embarrassed about or feel great shame over. What would that be for you? What would your being want and feel relief around if you saw that thing on the list? What would have you feel seen? What would give you hope?

In most of the moments of the last ten years, I would never fathom a return to places such as church or ministry. I’ve seen more vitriol to last a lifetime. The jealousy and envy that kill a staff, a person, a family. The unbridled pursuit of position and audience that rivals shows like Game of Thrones. The cruelty, gossip and hatred that flow from people professing to love a God and his son. But an experience I had at the beginning of my journey, I would have walked away from the whole lot. I found solace in expansive spaces of expression of faith and still do, I have always tended to the mystical expressions and found congruence in contemplative histories of all faith traditions.

In these days it has been a shock to me as I have witnessed my heart and thoughts turn back to a culture and a people. Let’s say a wooing of my heart and lessons learned this last decade have pulled at my attentions.

I had spent a lifetime parroting out peddled answers. Where do you accommodate others verbally and physically? Where do abdicate space? Learn how to explore and discover your expression and expand into it!