building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Soaring on wings like eagles So effortless, peaceful, steady, High above all the daily ground work, the labor, the sweat of trying to climb step by step. There is not even a flap of wings that carry the majestic bird higher and higher Circles written... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It can be hard to live with diversity – but it doesn’t have to be. As I was recently reminded in viewing a documentary, we ourselves make it so. The documentary is entitled “Human”, and I came across it the other day, when doing research... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- I’m not much of a fan of self-help books and articles. But recently I was intrigued: my daily “Morning” feed from the New York Times had, as its first short article, “How to Like Yourself More”., (Melissa Kirsch, NYT, June 29, 2024). How odd for... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- ‘Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?’ is an advertising slogan that will be immediately familiar to everyone of a certain age from the UK. The advert itself featured a sketched young couple sitting on a park bench talking to the... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- On Saturday, June 29, there was a match in the European Football Championship. Germany played against Denmark. The game was interrupted in the 35th minute due to a thunderstorm. At first glance this seems bad, but at second glance you notice many good things: e.g.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Athira, one of the youngsters who came regularly to church came up to us recently with a not so common request. She was having her post graduate degree award function at the University of Freiburg and wanted us to be there with her, and for... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In our world today it is easy to fall into a guilt trip since so many voices fill our heads with thoughts of inadequacies. We are bombarded with advertisements in how we can change our lives for the better if we just buy their product... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My last meditation was called “Pausing for Presence” … you may remember that last year I took an unpaid leave from my job for nine months to recover – physically and mentally- and to have a rest from many demands and deadlines which had taken... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The Special Research Consortium on Heroism and the Heroic that I have been a part of for the past 10 years is closing its doors, having run its full course. For the past four years, my own project has been working hard finding ways to... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Vulnerable??? -- It feels like an expression of weakness in times of armament, too high a risk in a world of arrows of criticism and superiority, no good choice when it is important to be untouchable, independent and strong. Why would I make myself vulnerable,... Continue Reading →
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