Russellings of the Spirit

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  • The Work of Restoration

    [WARNING! The following is a heavily political post… infused, ideally, with sprinklings of Spirit at some point along the way. Proceed at your own risk.] I saw the handwriting on the wall long before going to bed Tuesday night. The reporting carried… Continue reading

  • My Saturday Self

    I have a question: Which of your many “selves” is your truest self?  To clarify, I am not suggesting that you necessarily suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder. But if you do, God bless you.  I’m just saying that most of… Continue reading

  • Your Real Name

    As Juliet once famously asked, looking heavenward from her balcony, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet…” Juliet’s ambivalence on the topic of names is understandable; if her lover Romeo… Continue reading

  • “Well, I declare!”

    It is one thing to know who you are. Today, after 60 plus years of trial and error and experimentation, I feel as if I am finally getting a handle on my own identity. However, it is quite another thing entirely to DECLARE that… Continue reading

  • Beloved

    It happened again. Sunday morning… there we all were; about 10 minutes before the worship service was scheduled to begin. I walked in, set my stuff down, and made my way back down the brown-carpeted center aisle – exchanging pleasantries… Continue reading

  • Stunned and speechless

    “Stunned and speechless” seems to be my default state every time I turn on the news these days. Just when I think it can’t get worse, somehow it does. My capacity for outrage is sorely tested every time one person… Continue reading

  • The Real Deal

    “To thine own self be true.” – Polonius, in Hamlet “See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are.” – 1 John 3:1, NRSV “Authentic” is a… Continue reading

  • Be Tom Brady

    Wait a minute… that didn’t come out right. Be you. Of course, be you. Only and exactly you. But be you in a Tom Brady-like way, if you know what I mean. OK… by the glazed expression on your face… Continue reading