Posts Tagged With: Thomas C. Chavez
Romance vs Sexuality vs Love Part 2
Have you ever been :“Love” loving “Love,” or “Love” inspiring “Awe,” or “ “Awe” being present to “Inspiration.” What would you give to have such an experience? Any way you shake it up, match the metaphors, or mix the sensations, life lived dancing around the Compass of Grace is an experience nearly beyond description The … Continue reading
Romance vs Sexuality vs Love
Recognizing and celebrating Valentine’s day was easy around the tables at our Sunday Supper gathering. Everyone told some unvarnished story about some experience in the past, and all listeners either laughed or commiserated as seemed right. But the second part of the evening, when all tables gather in a single circle around the fireplace and … Continue reading
The Compass of Grace is a Fascinating Topic
The Compass Way is a fascinating subject, and to date little enough has been written about it. Gabrielle and I both have clattered along for a few score pages each, but the total represents just a cup from the ocean of subterranean wisdom we’ve discovered and committed ourselves to drink down, as well as serve … Continue reading
We’ve Been Crafting Videos
We’ve been busy crafting videos around here. Maybe I should assign all skill implied by “crafting” to others. All I do when the “director” snaps his fingers is say stuff with enough enthusiasm to indicate that I believe my own words. Which of course I do, absolutely! Then I stop yapping when the guy purrs … Continue reading
A New App
As I sit in my office this evening, Gabrielle stands at a podium at Willamette university in our state capital speaking against the death penalty. Today I’m trying out my new iphone, so this afternoon I enjoyed the singular experience of riding up the hill to our home at Grace Garden in a crowded bus, … Continue reading
A Compass Way to Health
A Compass Way toward Health? Late one afternoon I trundled home from central Portland to sit around that living room wood fire I mentioned a few posts ago, to talk with Diana Chambers, a recently retired senior manager in California’s state mental health system. This was the same day I wrote about in my most … Continue reading
What Do You Think It’s About?
Five days ago, while sitting at a Formica topped conference table, I was asked if I ever cry about blindness, and if I do, when. Ignoring the fact that vision had been slowly returning, I related that I’ve fallen to tears twice – both times in frustration in the face of what appeared to my … Continue reading
A Week in the Life
The week that dies for us at midnight was stuffed like a bean bag chair with innumerable nugget-like events, grape squeezing, out of state guest, involved plans for the future, pumpkin juicing, long walks, car wreck, and so on. Two of these events, though more in the realm of Getting Along than of Grace, seem … Continue reading
Seeing How it all Applies
October is nearly past, and we build a fire in our woodstove each evening. I’ve just written and posted my most recent blog effort, in which I admit that I write all this Compass Way stuff for myself – who is you. Is that statement confusing? I don’t think that I can untangle that thought … Continue reading
You Will Make the Difference
It is amazing to contemplate all the folks who hang out around our home from time to time. For example, as I peck away here in my office, Dana is doing a Soul Portrait session for Bonnie on the living room floor above my head. Gabrielle is hard at work putting worship together for her … Continue reading
The Triple Compass Map
