Showing posts with label Flipgrid-Lenten Reflections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flipgrid-Lenten Reflections. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Flipgrid Lenten Reflections, Topic 18, Washing people's feet.


Lenten Reflections, Topic 18, has just been posted on Flipgrid. You can access it by clicking here.

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Lenten Reflections, Topic 17, Awakening to Peace and Bliss now on Fripgrid


Lenten Reflections, Topic 17, Awakening to Peace and Bliss, has just been added to Flipgrid which you can access by clicking here.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Lenten Reflections, Fiipgrid, Topic 16, Unconditional Love Is Found On The Right Frequency.


Flipgrid lenten reflections topic 16, "Unconditional Love Is Found On The Right Frequency" by clicking here.

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Monday, April 6, 2020

Lenten Reflections, topic 15, Love or Money? now available on Flipgrid


Lenten Reflections, topic 15, "Love or Money?" has just been posted on Flipgrid. You can access it by clicking here.

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Sunday, April 5, 2020

Lenten Reflection for Palm Sunday available on Flipgrid


Lenten Reflections for Palm Sunday now available on Flipgrid by clicking here.

How do you celebrate Palm Sunday if at all?

What do you make of Holy Week in the Christian tradition?

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Lenten Reflections, Day Thirty nine, What would love have me do?


New Lenten Reflections has been posted for day thirty nine, "What would love have me do?" You can access it by clicking here.

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Friday, April 3, 2020

New Lenten Reflection available on Flipgrid, "Love The Divine Spark Within."


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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Flipgrid, topic eleven, The big mistake still being made is available."


Topic eleven in Flipgrid, Lenten Reflections, "The big mistake still being made," is available by clicking here.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Lenten Reflections, topic ten, Embarking on the path to peace and bliss."


Topic ten, "Embarking on the path to peace and bliss," is available on Fipgrid. You can access it by clicking here.

This topic fits well for Unitarian Univeralists who are considering the application of principle 4, the free and responsible search for truth and meaning.

Lenten Reflections on Fipgrid, Day Thirty four, Love is all this is.


Lenten Reflections for Day Thirty four is now available on Flipgrid. You can access it by clicking here.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Lenten Reflections, Day Thirty Three, now available on Flipgrid.

Check out Lenten Reflections for Day Thirty Three, "Love Never Dies" by clicking here.

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Saturday, March 28, 2020

Topic seven in Lenten Reflections available on flipgrid


Topic seven in our class on Lenten Reflections is available on Flipgrid. You can access it by clicking here.

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Lenten Refections topic for day Thirty One available.


Lenten Reflections, Day Thirty One, You can kill the body but not the soul, has been posted and can be accessed by clicking here.

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Lenten Reflections, Fifth topic is now available, Becoming Aware of One's Holiness


The fifth topic in the class on Lenten Reflections is available by clicking here. The topic is "Becoming aware of one's own holiness."

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Lenten Reflections, Day Twenty nine is now available.


A new topic is available for our UU A Way Of Life Lenten Reflictions class. It is day 29.

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Lenten Reflections, Day Twenty nine, Fifth Wednesday of Lent, Path of the Ego and the Path of the Spirit


Day Twenty Nine, Fifth Wednesday of Lent
Path of the ego and the path of the Spirit.

John 5: 17-30

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.” 

For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. 

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. 

Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. 

The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 

Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life.

 Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself; and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out— those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. 

 I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.”

John puts some fine words in Jesus’ mouth. The words John reports Jesus as saying have little meaning unless you understand Jesus' metaphysical philosophy. Jesus sees the world in a non dualistic way. Without understanding Jesus’ metaphysical cosmology, His statements in this passage are incomprehensible.

Jesus sees all life as One. We are all part of the Oneness. Jesus is speaking from a position of cosmic consciousness. Jesus is not referring to things on the path of the ego. So when Jesus says that He and the Father are One as well as the people who understand His teachings, Jesus is not referring to the usual meaning of the words His is using based on separation, and this offends the Jews. They are taking Him literally rather than spiritually.

Richard Rohr suggests that when we read the words “judge” and “judgement” in this passage we substitute the word “mirror” or “mirroring.”

The Love of God is mirrored in us, God’s sons and daughters, and we mirror it in each other. Those who perceive the inherent worth and dignity, and spark of the divine, in themselves and others are alive and will have eternal life, and those who don’t see the inherent worth and dignity, and divine spark, are dead and consigned to darkness.

Jesus is describing in this passage what can be called the “path of the ego” and the “path of the Spirit.” Which path are you walking?

Lent is the season of the year when we become more aware of our choice of paths. Those who celebrate Lent make a more intentional effort to eschew the things on the path of the ego and engage and embrace the things on the path of the Spirit.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Today's class, "Searching for a better way" is available.


Join our class on Lenten Reflections on Flipgrid.

Today's class is entitled, "Searching for a better way."

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Monday, March 23, 2020

New course, Lenten Reflections, now available

Today we have put on line the UU A Way Of Life Lenten Reflections course. It is free of charge.

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 https://flipgrid.com/markham7195

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All the best,

David Markham
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