Mindful Leader
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Season of Pentecost -- If you can't get out of it, Get into it!
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
The 10:30 version of June 17th Sermon. The title of "If you can't get out of it, get into it" comes from a Parker Palmer reflection I quote. Use a couple of mountain climbing illustrations but the big idea is staying anchored in Jesus come good times or more challenging times. The other readings for this Sunday focused on horaculture themes of grafting and I used them a little.
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
Unafraid -- Fear of the Other
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
This was a look at Fear of the Other. Connect with each other. Quite a bit of reference back to the music we sang this day. The reprise I used was a little play off an acronym of FEAR -- Face Everything and Rise with some words from Dr. King on moving from fear to knowing and meeting.
Question is "how often do we let our fear of the stranger drive us to not connect."
Some continuation of the previous week's theme of connectedness, but here the connectedness is getting past the dikes that hold us in our own flood of fear of the other. Dikes of courage (among other things) are needed (a quote i thought about using, but didn't.)
I am currently listening to Isaac Asimov Robots of Dawn and wonder how much of this might be helpful ... if you are not familiar with the book, do not worry. If you are, the conversation Daneel and Elijah in Chapter 2 is what I am thinking. Elijah has to see Robots differently on Aurora than on Earth. On Earth, they are an object of scorn and subservience. On Aurora (a fictitious planet) they are near equals, if not precisely equals. Elijah has to be taught this, as it does not come naturaly to him. Yes?
Quotes from Dr. King:
"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other."
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
Christmas Eve, 2017
Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
This is my Christmas Eve reflection. Bonhoeffer meets Ebenezer Scrooge with a little help from other sources.